Sergio Mattarella elected for a second mandate as President of the Italian Republic. Despite not forbidden by the Constitution, a second mandate is see as forcing its interpretation (technically there is no limit).

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  1. Fratelli d’Italia
    l’Italia Chiamò

    Mattarella was called twice by Italy, not very sure he enjoyed that though

  2. It’s like seeing frightened pupils begging their teacher to help them. Mattarella is a great president for Italy but we have a shameful parliament.

  7. Zero fucks given about the fact that he’s the president. I’m just happy that Berlusconi suffered the humiliating defeat he deserved.

  8. For the last year he asked to be left the fuck alone and 1009 adult children were unable to find 1 person to take his role.

    To give you and idea of how lazy and incompetent this parliament was, they gave up on the election after only 7 voting sessions. In the past we had presidents elected after 16, 21 and 23 attemps but this time after just 7 attemps they went back to Mattarella and begged him to let them rielect him because they couldn’t reach an agreement.

    Edit: words (I know my english is bad and I’m sorry).

  9. It’s been a fear-mongering campaign from certain parties that “electing for a second time” is somehow forcing the interpretation. All presidential systems have ways to elect a president twice. There is nothing bad about this per se. Only thing is he didn’t want to be elected, which is why I think it’s sad. I like him a lot, and the fact that he took up the task for the good of the state despite his age is admirable.

  10. I wasn’t a huge fan (nice guy and whatnot, but not exactly the epitome of commanding leadership) but at this point I’d have picked him over any of the other names that circulated.

    Which is so goddamn depressing…

    At least it wasn’t Draghi and he’ll fuck off once his job as PM is done. Unfortunately his legacy will be felt for years to come.

  11. it’s a shame.

    it’s always the same thing that is not even funny anymore

    Every political party was unprepared for this election that was

    scheduled 7 years ago.

    M5S and PD did not bring a name to the floor.

    the only name that was tried to push for real was Casellati by the right.

    not even all the Right was united ,it was not even close to a neutral candidate

    She is also the President of the Senate, so that would trigger another night scenario with another election to replace her.

    Vote Session Quorum Most Voted

    |Vote Session 1 672 36 Maddalena |
    |:-|
    |Vote Session 2 673 39 Maddalena|
    |Vote Session 3 673 125 Mattarella|
    |Vote Session 4 505 166 Mattarella|
    |Vote Session 5 505 382 Casellati|
    |Vote Session 6 505 336 Mattarella|
    |Vote session 7 505 387 Mattarella|
    |Vote Session 8 505 759 Mattarella|

    [https://www.iltempo.it/politica/2021/05/19/news/sergio-mattarella-rebus-quirinale-secondo-mandato-mario-draghi-strategia-partiti-salvini-meloni-pd-conte-spettro-elezioni-27287731/](https://www.iltempo.it/politica/2021/05/19/news/sergio-mattarella-rebus-quirinale-secondo-mandato-mario-draghi-strategia-partiti-salvini-meloni-pd-conte-spettro-elezioni-27287731/)

    19 may 2021

    >Sergio Mattarella repeats it for the third time in a few months: the seven-year period lasts seven years. There are therefore eight months left, then one of the most complicated phases of Italian political life will be staged, the election of the new President of the Republic

    The Italian Gov is a coward and hided behind an 80 year old man that already did a very good job and just want to spent the rest of his life out of the public pressure.

    we failed him

    Cowards can not run a country in times of crisis.

    we need election, it’s been 4 years, it only natural.

  13. Did Draghi outplay himself by being too good of a PM to the point that they are too afraid to replace him and thus won’t elect him president? This is downright hilarious.

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