Sergio Mattarella (; born 23 July 1941) is an Italian politician, jurist, academic and lawyer who has served as the
president of Italy since 2015.
A
Christian leftist politician, Mattarella was a leading member of the
Christian Democracy
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party from the early 1980s until its dissolution. He served as
Minister for Parliamentary Relations from 1987 to 1989, and
Minister of Education from 1989 to 1990. In 1994, Mattarella was among the founders of the
Italian People's Party (PPI), serving as
Deputy Prime Minister of Italy from 1998 to 1999, and
Minister of Defence from 1999 to 2001. He joined
The Daisy in 2002 and was one of the founders of the
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(PD) in 2007, leaving it when he retired from politics in 2008. He also served as a judge of the
Constitutional Court of Italy from 2011 to 2015.
On 31 January 2015, Mattarella was
elected to the presidency on the fourth ballot, supported by the
centre-left coalition majority led by the PD and
centrist parties. He was
re-elected for a second term on 29 January 2022, becoming the second Italian president to be re-elected, the first being his predecessor
Giorgio Napolitano. As of 2022, five prime ministers have served under his presidency, among them