Less than three months after the election of the new President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella returns to the theme (or node if you prefer) of re-eligibility. And once again it dismisses the hypothesis, relaunched by many circles and hoped for by many others, of his re-election or, at least, of an extension of his mandate. And so, the Head of State, takes the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the death of Giovanni Leone to emphasize that Leone, like Antonio Segni, asked for “the non-re-eligibility of the President of the Republic with the elimination of the blank semester”. Sergio Mattarella mentions the speech that the former President made on October 15, 1975 in Parliament; an intervention considered “by jurists one of the major interventions on institutional reforms”. Among the topics dealt with by the then President of the Republic, among others, “bicameralism, CNEL, public administration, noon, strikes in public services”. Leone re-proposed the solicitation, already underlined by President Segni “to introduce the non-re-election of the President of the Republic with the consequent elimination of the blank semester”, added the Head of State who also recalled – perhaps not surprisingly – the farewell farewell of the his predecessor: “I served the country with institutional correctness and moral dignity”. “Yet another testimony of the very high institutional sensitivity that had inspired his choices throughout his life,” said Sergio Mattarella. «The exercise of the functions to which he was called – insists the Head of State – also led to the definition of Leo as a“ lonely man ”. Perhaps loneliness is co-essential to the function of President of the Republic. But no man is alone if he chooses to keep his freedom, having obedience to his conscience as a limit ».
In confirmation of the determination not to accept a new presidential mandate, according to Espresso, Mattarella would have signed this evening the rental contract for the new house between the Parioli neighborhood and the Salario Trieste neighborhood.