“For the Quirinale, an institutional guarantor is needed, the president has never been a political leader”: Enrico Letta told Sole 24Ore. “This time there can only be a collective, shared kingmaker to lead the election,” says Letta.
“The role of the President of the Republic is unique, this is how the constituents designed it. He represents an arbiter, an engine, a guarantor who gives a voice to all citizens. From here we understand the delicacy of the profile that the President of the Republic must have and reviewing the 12 presidents it turns out that there has never been any leader or political leader. And it is no coincidence. It requires a highly sensitive figure from the institutions. This will not be trivial in the choice “.
For Letta, “We are experiencing an extraordinary, exceptional time that will affect this transition. I think for example that the President of the Republic today must work intensely in his relationship with international and national institutions. I am thinking of the crisis that has opened up on the subject of the judiciary. : how much energy has Mattarella put on this and how much it will be necessary for the next or next president to put as much energy as president of the CSM to ferry the country towards a normality, still very far away, for a healthy, balanced relationship between state powers “.
On Cavaliere, Letta says: “The level of surprise emerging in many foreign observers is evident” in the face of Silvio Berlusconi’s candidacy for the Quirinale.