List of presidents of Italy
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "Multiple image". The president of Italy (Template:Langx) is the head of state of 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 all senators, all 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 was 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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| File:Enrico De Nicola (cropped).jpg | Enrico De Nicola (1877–1959)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
1 January 1948Template:Efn | 12 May 1948 | width="1" rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color;"| | Italian Liberal Party | 1947 | [1] | |
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12 May 1948 | 11 May 1955 | width="1" rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color;"| | Italian Liberal Party | 1948 | [2] | |
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| File:Giovanni Gronchi Official.jpg | Giovanni Gronchi (1887–1978)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
11 May 1955 | 11 May 1962 | width="1" rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color;"| | Christian Democracy | 1955 | [3] | |
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11 May 1962 | 6 December 1964Template:Efn | width="1" rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color;"| | Christian Democracy | 1962 | [4] | |
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29 December 1964 | 29 December 1971 | width="1" rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color;"| | Italian Democratic Socialist Party | 1964 | [5] | |
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| File:Presidente Leone.jpg | Giovanni Leone (1908–2001)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
29 December 1971 | 15 June 1978Template:Efn | width="2" rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color;"| | Christian Democracy | 1971 | [6] | |
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9 July 1978 | 29 June 1985Template:Efn | width="2" rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color;"| | Italian Socialist Party | 1978 | [7] | |
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3 July 1985 | 28 April 1992Template:Efn | width="1" rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color;"| | Christian Democracy | 1985 | [8] | |
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28 May 1992 | 15 May 1999Template:Efn | width="1" rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color;"| | Christian DemocracyTemplate:Efn | 1992 | [9] | |
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18 May 1999 | 15 May 2006Template:Efn | width="1" rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color;"| | IndependentTemplate:Efn | 1999 | [10] | |
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15 May 2006 | 14 January 2015Template:Efn | rowspan="2" width="1" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color;"| | Democrats of the Left / IndependentTemplate:Efn |
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3 February 2015 | Incumbent | width="1" rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color;"| | IndependentTemplate:Efn | 2015 2022 |
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Substitute of the head of state
The Acting President of the Republic (Template:Langx) 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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13 June 1946 | 1 July 1946 | width="1" rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color;"| | Christian Democracy | — | Template:Efn |
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1 July 1946 | 31 December 1947 | width="1" rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color;"| | Italian Liberal Party | 1946 1947 |
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6 December 1964 | 29 December 1964 | width="1" rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color;"| | Independent | — | Template:Efn |
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| File:Amintore Fanfani Senato.jpg | Amintore Fanfani (1908–1999)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
15 June 1978 | 9 July 1978 | width="1" rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color;"| | Christian Democracy | — | Template:Efn |
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| File:Cossiga Francesco.jpg | Francesco Cossiga (1928–2010)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
29 June 1985 | 3 July 1985 | width="1" rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color;"| | Christian Democracy | — | Template:Efn |
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| File:Giovanni Spadolini 2.jpg | Giovanni Spadolini (1925–1994)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
28 April 1992 | 28 May 1992 | width="1" rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color;"| | Italian Republican Party | — | Template:Efn |
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15 May 1999 | 18 May 1999 | width="1" rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color;"| | Italian People's Party | — | Template:Efn |
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| File:PresidentePietroGrasso.jpg | Pietro Grasso (born 1945)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
14 January 2015 | 3 February 2015 | width="1" rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color;"| | Democratic Party | — | Template:Efn |
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See also
- Lists of office-holders
- King of Italy, for previous Italian heads of state between 1861 and 1946
- List of prime ministers of Italy
- Politics of Italy
- Prime Minister of Italy
Notes
References
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External links
- Template:In lang Script error: No such module "Lang". – official site of the president of Italian Republic
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