President of Italy accepts re-election; Porta and Longo vote “yes”

the deputy Fausto Longo and the senator Fabio Porta, representatives of Italian-Brazilians, voted for the re-election of the president of Italy, Sergio Mattarella.

Re-electing the president of Italy will not be the option to Roberto Lorenzato (Liga), another Italian deputy elected in Brazil. “Mattarella is a high profile, but not my personal candidate,” he told Italianismo. He preferred not to reveal his candidate.

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"I vote with great pride and conviction, said Fabio Porta (USEI), this Saturday afternoon (29).

For deputy Fausto Longo (PD), Mattarella is someone who has already demonstrated calm and tranquility in running the country, both in the delicate economic function and in light of the pandemic. “I believe that an additional period of tranquility for Italy is necessary so that we can get out of this critical period and be able to resume the country’s development,” he said. the parliamentarian.

Mattarella accepted this Saturday (29) the proposal to re-elect him for another seven years in office. 

According to the Ansa agency, he received representatives from Mario Draghi's government parties at the Quirinale Palace, headquarters of the Presidency, and expressed his willingness to continue in his position.   

The pact involves all parties that are part of the national unity government headed by Prime Minister Draghi and arrives after almost a week of failed votes in Parliament – ​​there have been 7 so far – to try to elect a new head of state.   

"The country is safe”, said former prime minister and senator Matteo Renzi, leader of the centrist party Living Italy (IV).

At 80 years old, Mattarella has been in office since 2015 and would end his term on February 3rd.

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Over the last few months, he has shown several signs that he does not want to be re-elected, but he has shown himself to be the only name capable of keeping such a heterogeneous coalition together.   

The right tried to elect the president of the Senate, Elisabetta Casellati, last Friday (28), but its vote (382 votes out of a total of 1.009) was lower than expected.

The left and the anti-system 5 Star Movement (M5S) preferred to wait to seek a solution that encompassed the entire allied base.   

* Article updated to include Congressman Roberto’s speech Lorenzato (League)