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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Multiple image The president of Italy (Template:Lang-it) is the head of state the Italian Republic. Since 1948, there have been 12 presidents of Italy.

The official residence of the president is the Quirinal Palace in Rome. Among the Italian presidents, three came from Campania (all from Naples), three from Piedmont, two each from Sardinia (both from Sassari) and from Tuscany, one from Liguria, and one from Sicily. No woman has ever held the office.

Election

The president of the Republic is elected by Parliament in a joint session of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. In addition, the 20 regions of Italy appoint 58 representatives as special electors. Three representatives come from each region, save for the small Aosta Valley which appoints one, so as to guarantee representation for all localities and minorities.

According to the Constitution, the election must be held in the form of secret ballot, with the 315 senators, the 630 deputies and the 58 regional representatives all voting. A two-thirds vote is required to elect on any of the first three rounds of balloting and after that a majority suffices. The election is presided over by the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, who calls for the public counting of the votes. The vote is held in the Palazzo Montecitorio, home of the Chamber of Deputies, which is expanded and re-configured for the event.

The president assumes office after having taken an oath before Parliament and delivering a presidential address. Presidents are elected to serve a seven-year term. Giorgio Napolitano is the first president to be elected to a second term in 2013, followed by Sergio Mattarella in 2022.

Presidents of the Italian Republic (1948–present)

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Portrait Name
(Born–Died) 		Term of office Party Election Ref.
Took office Left office
Enrico De Nicola
(1877–1959) 		1 January 1948[lower-alpha 1] 12 May 1948 width="1" rowspan="2" style="background:Template:Party color;"| Italian Liberal Party 1947 [1]
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Luigi Einaudi
(1874–1961) 		12 May 1948 11 May 1955 width="1" rowspan="2" style="background:Template:Party color;"| Italian Liberal Party 1948 [2]
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Giovanni Gronchi
(1887–1978) 		11 May 1955 11 May 1962 width="1" rowspan="2" style="background:Template:Party color;"| Christian Democracy 1955 [3]
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Antonio Segni
(1891–1972) 		11 May 1962 6 December 1964[lower-alpha 2] width="1" rowspan="2" style="background:Template:Party color;"| Christian Democracy 1962 [4]
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Giuseppe Saragat
(1898–1988) 		29 December 1964 29 December 1971 width="1" rowspan="2" style="background:Template:Party color;"| Italian Democratic Socialist Party 1964 [5]
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Giovanni Leone
(1908–2001) 		29 December 1971 15 June 1978[lower-alpha 3] width="2" rowspan="2" style="background:Template:Party color;"| Christian Democracy 1971 [6]
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Sandro Pertini
(1896–1990) 		9 July 1978 29 June 1985[lower-alpha 4] width="2" rowspan="2" style="background:Template:Party color;"| Italian Socialist Party 1978 [7]
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Francesco Cossiga
(1928–2010) 		3 July 1985 28 April 1992[lower-alpha 5] width="1" rowspan="2" style="background:Template:Party color;"| Christian Democracy 1985 [8]
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Oscar Luigi Scalfaro
(1918–2012) 		28 May 1992 15 May 1999[lower-alpha 4] width="1" rowspan="2" style="background:Template:Party color;"| Christian Democracy[lower-alpha 6] 1992 [9]
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Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
(1920–2016) 		18 May 1999 15 May 2006[lower-alpha 4] width="1" rowspan="2" style="background:Template:Party color;"| Independent[lower-alpha 7] 1999 [10]
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Giorgio Napolitano
(born 1925) 		15 May 2006 14 January 2015[lower-alpha 8] rowspan="2" width="1" style="background:Template:Party color;"| Democrats of the Left /
Independent[lower-alpha 9] 		2006
2013 		[11]
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Sergio Mattarella
(born 1941) 		3 February 2015 Incumbent width="1" rowspan="2" style="background:Template:Party color;"| Independent[lower-alpha 10] 2015
2022 		[12]
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Substitute of the head of state

The Acting President of the Republic (Template:Lang-it) is an office not explicitly provided for in the Italian Constitution, but deriving from the provision contained in the article 86.[13] On various occasions, officials had to intercede in the absence of a head of state (notably in the case of a president's resignation or ill health). Only Enrico De Nicola, who was elected to be provisional head of state by the Constitutional Assembly on 28 June 1946, had an official title and took residence in the Quirinal Palace.[14] The others took the powers, but not the title of Head of State. After the adoption of the Italian Constitution in 1948, the president of the Senate is eligible to take the powers of head of state in case of absence of the President of the Republic.

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Portrait Name
(Born–Died) 		Term of office Party Election Ref.
Took office Left office
Alcide De Gasperi
(1881–1954) 		13 June 1946 1 July 1946 width="1" rowspan="2" style="background:Template:Party color;"| Christian Democracy — [lower-alpha 11]
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Enrico De Nicola
(1877–1959) 		1 July 1946 31 December 1947 width="1" rowspan="2" style="background:Template:Party color;"| Italian Liberal Party 1946
1947 		[lower-alpha 12]
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Cesare Merzagora
(1898–1991) 		6 December 1964 29 December 1964 width="1" rowspan="2" style="background:Template:Party color;"| Independent — [lower-alpha 13]
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Amintore Fanfani
(1908–1999) 		15 June 1978 9 July 1978 width="1" rowspan="2" style="background:Template:Party color;"| Christian Democracy — [lower-alpha 14]
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Francesco Cossiga
(1928–2010) 		29 June 1985 3 July 1985 width="1" rowspan="2" style="background:Template:Party color;"| Christian Democracy — [lower-alpha 15]
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Giovanni Spadolini
(1925–1994) 		28 April 1992 28 May 1992 width="1" rowspan="2" style="background:Template:Party color;"| Italian Republican Party — [lower-alpha 16]
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Nicola Mancino
(born 1931) 		15 May 1999 18 May 1999 width="1" rowspan="2" style="background:Template:Party color;"| Italian People's Party — [lower-alpha 17]
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Pietro Grasso
(born 1944) 		14 January 2015 3 February 2015 width="1" rowspan="2" style="background:Template:Party color;"| Democratic Party — [lower-alpha 18]
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See also

Notes

  1. ↑ De Nicola was already provisional head of state since 1 July 1946.
  2. ↑ After suffering a serious cerebral hemorrhage, Segni resigned due to health reasons, becoming the first president to do so.
  3. ↑ After being involved in a bribery scandal, Leone resigned.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Resigned in order to bring forward the inauguration ceremony of the President-elect.
  5. ↑ Cossiga resigned in order to favor the resolution of the political crisis after the 1992 general election.
  6. ↑ Scalfaro left the Christian Democracy in 1992, when he was elected president. In 1994 the DC was disbanded and Scalfaro would never re-join a party.
  7. ↑ Ciampi was a member of the Action Party, which was dissolved in 1947.
  8. ↑ At 89 years old, Napolitano resigned due to age reasons.
  9. ↑ Napolitano was a member of the Italian Communist Party, of the Democratic Party of the Left and of the Democrats of the Left until his election as President in 2006.
  10. ↑ Mattarella was a member of the Christian Democracy, of the Italian People's Party, of The Daisy and of the Democratic Party, but he quit political commitment when he left the Parliament in 2008.
  11. ↑ De Gasperi exercised the powers of provisional head of state as Prime Minister of Italy between the departure of King Umberto II on 13 June 1946 and the proclamation of Enrico De Nicola as head of state by the Constitutional Assembly on 1 July 1946.
  12. ↑ De Nicola was the only provisional president who had the title and not only the powers of provisional head of state. He assumed the office on 1 July 1946 and officially became the president of the Republic on 1 January 1948 as ordered by the new Constitution.
  13. ↑ Merzagora, as President of the Senate, assumed temporary powers for President Antonio Segni after his cerebral hemorrhage of 10 August 1964 and assumed full powers after his resignation of 6 December and until 29 December 1964.
  14. ↑ Fanfani, as President of the Senate, assumed powers from President Giovanni Leone after his resignation for a bribery scandal on 15 June 1978. He exercised the powers until 9 July 1978.
  15. ↑ Cossiga, as President of the Senate, assumed powers from President Sandro Pertini on 29 June 1985, just four days before taking office as President.
  16. ↑ Spadolini, as President of the Senate, assumed powers from President Francesco Cossiga on 28 April 1992. He exercised the powers until 28 May 1992.
  17. ↑ Mancino, as President of the Senate, assumed powers from President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro on 15 May 1999. He exercised the powers until 18 May 1999.
  18. ↑ Grasso, as President of the Senate, assumed powers from President Giorgio Napolitano on 14 January 2015. He exercised the powers until 3 February 2015.

References

  1. ↑ "La biografia del Presidente De Nicola". Presidenza della Repubblica italiana.
  2. ↑ "La biografia del Presidente Einaudi". Presidenza della Repubblica italiana.
  3. ↑ "La biografia del Presidente Gronchi". Presidenza della Repubblica italiana.
  4. ↑ "La biografia del Presidente Segni". Presidenza della Repubblica italiana.
  5. ↑ "La biografia del Presidente Saragat". Presidenza della Repubblica italiana.
  6. ↑ "La biografia del Presidente Leone". Presidenza della Repubblica italiana.
  7. ↑ "La biografia del Presidente Pertini". Presidenza della Repubblica italiana.
  8. ↑ "La biografia del Presidente Cossiga". Presidenza della Repubblica italiana.
  9. ↑ "La biografia del Presidente Scalfaro". Presidenza della Repubblica italiana.
  10. ↑ "La biografia del Presidente Ciampi". Presidenza della Repubblica italiana.
  11. ↑ "La biografia del Presidente Napolitano". Presidenza della Repubblica italiana.
  12. ↑ "La biografia del Presidente Mattarella". Presidenza della Repubblica italiana.
  13. ↑ Articolo 86, Costituzione della Repubblica Italiana, Brocardi
  14. ↑ Decreto legislativo luogotenenziale, parlalex.it

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