Italy has a new president – Banker

             Sergio Mattarella, elected by parliament on Saturday, the Italian president of the country in the first very short speech assured that thinking primarily about the difficulties and hopes of citizens, which was a reference to the crisis. His swearing – on Tuesday.

 
 

Shortly after the election of 73-year-old Sergio Mattarella said: “I think first and foremost about the difficulties and hopes of our fellow citizens.” “That’s enough” – said the president-elect, who for years was known that he did not like public statements and limited to a minimum, and for the past seven years he has not made any political declaration.

 

12. The President of the Republic sworn in on Tuesday morning – was announced in parliament. Candidate former Constitutional Court judge and a former member – First Christian Democrats, then the center-left – and the former deputy prime minister and put forward the center-left Democratic Party of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.

 

The selection of the new president made senators, deputies and delegates from all regions. Mattarella need to choose 505 votes, received their 665, or nearly two-thirds (65.9 percent)..

 < P> Mattarella was selected in the fourth ballot. In three previous accordance with the Constitution was required two-thirds majority. As the candidate of the ruling center-left had no chance to get them, then threw her electors blank card.

 

For Mattarella also voted center-left coalition, ie the New Centre-Right, and the small centrist groups.

 

127 votes gathered on Saturday, a retired magistrate Ferdinando Imposimato, who led the investigation into the assassination attempt on John Paul II in 1981. MPs voted on Imposimato populist Five Star Movement.
 

Mattarella, judge and expert on parliamentary law, who was a member of a quarter of a century, will replace the position of head of state 89-year-old Giorgio Napolitano. He resigned from his post in mid-January because of old age, after the first 7-year term, and almost two years next.

 

Napolitano as a life senator took part in the selection of his successor. On Saturday, he told reporters in Parliament: I know Sergio Mattarella as a person of absolute loyalty, accuracy, sensitivity, institutional competence and impartiality sure.

 

This is all very important characteristics that must be characterized by a head of state – Napolitano said. He assured that he is very happy with the choice Mattarelli. Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni called him “a gentleman”.
 

Congratulations to the new head of the Italian state sent Pope Francis. The message expressed his desire that the new president has been appointed in the service of “unity and harmony in the country” and the promotion of the common good.

 

The European Council President Donald Tusk said: “Italy have chosen for the position of head of state politics highly respected and experienced.”

 

“His beliefs and sense of justice to help the Italians continue to play a leading role in Europe” – Tusk said in the message, quoted by Anse.

 

Italian agency also announced congratulatory message from Russian President Vladimir Putin. He expressed the hope that Mattarella retain and develop close ties between Italy and Russia.

 

In the course of a few hours on Saturday to vote its participants – as reported by the agency Ansa – enrich themselves on the sidelines of time coming up with anagrams of the name and surname of the center-left candidate. Won with the following: “Matteo is happy” (“Matteo a rallegra”), emphasizing the crucial role in bringing the Prime Minister Renzi Mattarelli choice.

 

This is the second major success Renzi, who had pushed the candidacy almost unknown on the international stage Federiki Mogherini as the head of the EU diplomacy.

 

From Rome Sylwia Wysocka (PAP)

 

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Italy has a new president – Banker