Rome: President Sergio Mattarella has signed a rent in a new apartment and was called at Packers, explained that he wanted to leave Quirinale Palace as soon as his seven-year mandate ended on February 3.
But on the contrary, 80 years -Told Mattarella unexpectedly agreed to stay in a place on Saturday and prevent the emptiness of strength, with the Italian disgust parties could not choose alternative numbers that were able to win the majority in parliament.
“I have other plans, but if necessary, I am on your disposition,” MPs quoted snowy haired Mattarella like told them after they went handed with his official Quirinale residence to ask him to stay in the office.
A former constitutional judge and one-time parliamentary member Mattarella was originally elected president in 2015, became the first head of the state of Sicily Island.
A little known by many Italians, Mattarella had a reputation to become introverted and hard, but he quickly won against his compatriot with his calm and simple attitude and calm handling of recurrent political crises and Covid Health Emergency.
On the night of parliamentary voting to find his replacement, polls showed that most Italians wanted him to stay.
Mattarella seemed destined for life as a legal professor, but plunged into politics after his brother Piersanti, at that time the Governor of Sicily, was shot by the mafia in 1980.
A photo showed Mattarella to him shortly before he died.
Joining the Christian Democratic Party has been discovered by his father, Mattarella was elected as Parliament in 1983 and served, among others, as Minister of Education, Defense Minister and Deputy Prime Minister for the next two decades.
In his first speech as president in 2015, he promised to fight corruption and help reform the economic flailing Italia, said he saw himself as “referee” political impartial.
The referee skills are regularly called.
He has supervised the creation of four governments in seven years, including his surprise step last year to call former European Central Bank President Mario Draghi to develop the national unity government.
Sicily, who was manners who was never afraid of defending his pro-European ideals, threatening to sink the government proposed in 2018 after the coalition partner put forward Eurosceptic for the position of economic minister.
The 5-star anti-company movement threatened to make Mattarella, but the president stood firm and the parties involved finally backed down.
In many ways he has become a very traditional president, sticking to the old manual to give a speech, put a bouquet of flowers and respect the national flag.
A little bent, he never looked without tie and jacket and won praise during the Covid crisis, refusing to queue for jumping when the vaccine was released.
Instead, he was photographed at the vaccination clinic, waited in line with others.
A widower since 2012, Mattarella has two sons and a daughter, who regularly stands by her side in large functions.
He previously said he thought the President only had to serve a period of seven years and not immediately clear if he planned to serve the second mandate.
His predecessor Giorgio Napolitano, the only other person who had been elected twice, resigned after only two years of his second mandate.
Still to be seen whether Mattarella plans to leave her new flat Rome, or pay rent in the hope that she might still move there before passing too much.