In the context of the difficult game for the election of the new Head of State, there are some candidates that count on the official investiture of a force or political party, and therefore differ from those that came out, more or less randomly, from the secret of the urn. The last to enter the list were Letizia Moratti, Marcello Pera and Carlo Nordio, or the names that entered the center-right squad (Lega, Fratelli d’Italia and Forza Italia are the majority shareholders of the coalition).
In the last few hours, attention has focused on Paolo Maddalena, the former judge of the Constitutional Court who was the most voted in the first ballot for the election of the President of the Republic with 36 votes. Maddalena is the candidate of the former M5s, now merged into the Mixed Group and the “Alternative there” component, of which just over 40 deputies and senators belong. But it is also the case of Luigi Manconi and Andrea Riccardi, whose names have been given respectively by the Green Europe and the Italian Left and by the Democratic Party.
Letizia Moratti, vice president of the Lombardy region
Letizia Brichetto Arnaboldi Moratti is vice president and councilor for welfare of the Lombardy region. Born in Milan on November 26, 1949, graduated in Political Science at the University of Milan, widow of Gian Marco Moratti, she was the first woman to hold the role of president of Rai (1994-1996) and to assume the position of mayor of Milan (2006-2011). Former Minister of Education, University and Research from 2001 to 2006, as commissioner delegated by the President of the Council of Ministers he carried out a decisive action for the assignment of Expo 2015 to the Lombard capital. president of UBI Banca.
Marcello Pera, the Popper scholar and former president of the Senate
Originally from Lucca, 79 years old, professor of philosophy of science, he can be considered among the greatest Italian scholars of KR Popper. Senator since 1996, first in the ranks of Forza Italia and then (since 2008) in those of the Freedom Party, from 2001 to 2006 he was president of the Senate.
Carlo Nordio, the pm of the red coop and of the Mose
He received his latest assignment in recent weeks: consultant to the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry into the death of David Rossi, the then head of communication of MPS bank who fell from his office window on March 6, 2013. A new experience that adds to the many that have marked the long career of Carlo Nordio, a magistrate for 40 years, retired since 2017 but still among the protagonists of the debate on justice. From Treviso, 74, Nordio took his first steps in the judiciary in 1977. In the 1980s he conducted investigations into the Venetian Red Brigades and kidnappings. Ten years after the engagement he moved to the Tangentopoli front: while in Milan it was the busiest season of Mani Pulite, he put under investigation with the Venetian political and administrative system, even the red coop. And this is the investigation that gave him fame. When twenty years have passed, it was another investigation that brought him to the front pages of the newspapers. As deputy prosecutor, he coordinated the investigations into Mose, which in 2014 led to 35 arrests and a real political and administrative earthquake, also overwhelming Giuseppe Galan, governor of Veneto for 15 years. The work of a magistrate never absorbs him completely. Thus Nordio was also president of the Commission for the reform of the Criminal Code, with the then Minister of Justice the Northern League player Roberto Castelli, and later consultant to various parliamentary commissions. Lastly, he lined up for the draw for the composition of the CSM and signed the referendums of the Radicals and the League, starting with the one on the separation of careers between judges and prosecutors, of which he has always been an advocate.