The encore, for the second time in republican history. A plebiscite. A unanimous request from Parliament, that for Sergio Mattarella, who with 759 votes and a very long applause and standing ovation is reconfirmed president of the Republic after the 2015 election. result of the first election (665 in 2015) and becoming the second most elected president, after Sandro Pertini (832), in the history of the Republic.
The various emergencies “require not shirking the duties to which one is called and of course they must prevail over other considerations and different personal perspectives”, are the words spoken by the Head of State after receiving the letter of election from Elisabetta Casellati and Roberto Fico as president of the Republic.
A week of impasse
Thus, on the eighth ballot, a game that has remained stalled for six days, capable of splitting coalitions and consuming irreparable fractures, ends. “Great news for Italians. I am grateful to the President for his choice to support the very strong will of Parliament ”, says Prime Minister Mario Draghi.
The green light comes after yet another night of labor in which the parties of the majority could not find the key to the problem. And when the game seemed almost closed for Pier Ferdinando Casini, yet another stop by Matteo Salvini had put everything back on the high seas. At that point, faced with the risk of a new paralysis with uncertain outcomes, the leaders of the party decided to probe the availability of the Head of State. Mario Draghi took charge of mediation with Mattarella, convinced that re-election is the only solution for the “stability of the country”.
A concept that the secretaries of the majority parties themselves express in several telephone calls to the President of the Republic. Not only that, an invitation to parties to ask Mattarella to stay also comes from Casini. The former Speaker of the House is called out of the race (“I ask Parliament, whose centrality I have always defended, to remove my name from any discussion”).