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“Bipartisan” wishes for Sergio Mattarella’s 80th anniversary

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ROME. His composed exultation at the Europeans has become viral on the Net. Today, the best wishes for Sergio Mattarella’s 80th birthday arrive at the Quirinale from leaders from all over the world, from institutions, parties and trade unions. The Head of State turns 80 today and politics pays homage to him with cross-cutting interventions by representatives of institutions and politics. “On this special occasion, please accept my most sincere wishes for a happy birthday, to which I add sincere thanks for the high testimony of which you are the protagonist every day”, the President of the Senate Elisabetta Casellati writes in a letter. «With his example – continues Casellati – he helps to strengthen the sense of national belonging in a community that, especially in this historical moment, needs messages of trust and hope. In the delicate path towards the definitive overcoming of the emergency period, his appeals to remain united, in solidarity, unselfish and to understand the difficulties of others are a precious resource for defending and promoting our most precious asset: being a community. His trust in Italy, in its wonderful energies, in our young people, in the creativity that makes us great all over the world, in the sense of profound solidarity that is typical of our tradition, constitutes a fundamental spur for us all, restoring our strength. , the spirit and passion needed to restart. Dearest wishes, Mr. President and thanks again for your tireless commitment to the service of our Republic ».

Certificates of esteem

From the parties an avalanche of esteem and good wishes already in the early morning. Among others, those of Giuseppe Moles, undersecretary for publishing, Piero Fassino, Ettore Rosato, vice president of the Chamber of IV, Simona Malpezzi, group leader of the dem senators, Roberto Occhiuto, leader of the blue deputies, Deborah Bergamini, undersecretary for relations with parliament, Emanuele Fiano, democratic deputy. A personal anniversary, the eightieth birthday, and a few days later an institutional turning point, the beginning of the white semester.

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In family
Sergio Mattarella today carves out a few hours of relaxation by having lunch with his family, his three children, their spouses and grandchildren. A lunch that, as for many Italians in these times of pandemic, will be homemade and without friends. Obviously there are many phone calls that reach the Quirinale switchboards and many testimonies of many, simple citizens and famous people, who like and more than in previous years want to send their wishes to the president also via social media. The first message to arrive was a video, created by the municipality of Florence, in which Roberto Mancini and Gianni Morandi, Stefano Accorsi and Paolo Fresu, Irene Grandi and Bebe Vio, Nicole Orlando and Fiona May, Piefrancesco Favino, Giorgio Panariello and many others each in their own way, they wish the President of the Republic their best wishes. Last year so many citizens sent a wish via social media that Mattarella replied personally, always on the profiles of the Quirinale. But in ten days there will be an occasion, this time institutional, which will mark a turning point of the seven-year period: from 3 August the blank semester will begin during which the President cannot dissolve the Chambers, based on Article 88 of the Constitution.

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Reflection

In February, a few hours before summoning Mario Draghi to instruct him to form the government, Sergio Mattarella, remembering Antonio Segni, delivered a reflection on the re-election of presidents and the blank semester. For his predecessor, the Constitution should have explicitly provided for the “non-re-eligibility” of the President, thus making it possible to “repeal” the blank semester. For Mattarella this is in fact “a provision that – in the opinion of President Segni -” alters the difficult and delicate balance between the powers of the State and can trigger the suspension of the power to dissolve the Chambers in a political moment such as to cause serious effects “” . Words delivered to history. In fact, if, as many think, even at Colle, after the reform of the parliamentary cut and the vote for eighteen-year-olds for the Senate, an overall revision of some aspects of the Charter will be necessary, then it will be possible to take the opportunity to reform article 88 Of course, now a complicated period will open for Italian politics, but at the Quirinale it is believed that the sense of responsibility should be rewarded and the impossibility of going to the vote could even advise against taking the tensions to their extreme consequences. After all, all the other powers of the President of the Republic remain intact, from the “moral suasion” to the power of signature. Francesco Cossiga came to resign to unblock a situation in his opinion excessively “wrapped”, but everyone is certain that Mattarella, who defended the orderly and natural development of the legislature, would do nothing to traumatically interrupt a mandate that must last for the Constitution seven years. As promised to citizens during the year-end speech, Mattarella will continue in the commitment it has made for the last year of his presidency. “The restart will be at the center of this last part of my mandate. It will be a year of intense work. We have the resources to do it ». said on New Year’s Eve.

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