Giancarlo Coraggio (born 16 December 1940) is an Italian magistrate. He has been Judge of the

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from 28 January 2013 to 28 January 2022 and President of the Constitutional Court from 18 December 2020 to 28 January 2022. Previously he served as President of the

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Career

Coraggio was born in

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

. Coraggio worked as a magistrate between 1965 and 1969, and served as an assistant general prosecutor for the

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between 1969 and 1975. He later became President of the Regional Administrative Court of first

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and later

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. Coraggio also served as section president on the Italian Council of State. He was appointed by the Sports Justice Commission as president of the Federal Justice Court on 16 October 2007. Coraggio was President of the Italian Council of State between 7 February 2012 and 27 January 2013. He was appointed to the Constitutional Court by the Council of State on 29 November 2012. He was sworn in on 23 January 2013. After the end of term of

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as President of the Constitutional Court, Coraggio ran for the position. He was defeated by

Mario Rosario Morelli Mario Rosario Morelli (born 15 May 1941) is an Italian judge. He was Judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy between 12 December 2011 and 12 December 2020, and served as its president from 16 September 2020. Career Morelli was born in Rome on ...

, who after two rounds of voting obtained nine votes, while Coraggio received five and

Giuliano Amato Giuliano Amato (; born 13 May 1938) is an Italian politician who twice served as Prime Minister of Italy, first from 1992 to 1993 and again from 2000 to 2001. Later, he was Vice President of the Convention on the Future of Europe that drafted t ...

received one. Morelli subsequently named Coraggio Vice President on 16 September 2020. On 18 December 2020, after Morelli's term in office ended, Coraggio was elected President of the Italian Constitutional Court, receiving the unanimity of votes by the member judges. He will hold this position until 22 January 2022. As his first act, Coraggio confirmed Amato in the role of vice president of the court. Coraggio was made Knight Grand Cross in the

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on 27 December 1996.

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, - 1940 births Living people Judges of the Constitutional Court of Italy Jurists from Naples Knights Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic Presidents of the Constitutional Court of Italy Vice Presidents of the Constitutional Court of Italy {{Italy-law-bio-stub