Sergio Mattarella

President of Italy

23 July 1941 Palermo, Sicily, Kingdom of Italy

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Incumbent

12th President of Italy Sergio Mattarella OMRI OMCA (Italian pronunciation:  ; born 23 July 1941) is an Italian politician, jurist, academic and lawyer who has served as the 12th and current President of Italy since 2015. A Christian leftist politician, Mattarella served as Minister for Parliamentary Relations from 1987 to 1989, Minister of Public Education from 1989 to 1990, Deputy Prime Minister of Italy from 1998 to 1999 and Minister of Defence from 1999 to 2001. In 2011, he became an elected judge on the Constitutional Court. On 31 January 2015, Mattarella was elected to the presidency at the fourth ballot, supported by a broad centre to centre-left majority led by the Democratic Party (PD). As of 2021, four prime ministers have served under Mattarella's presidency: Matteo Renzi, then the PD's leader and main sponsor of Mattarella's candidacy, Paolo Gentiloni, a leading member of the Democratic Party who succeeded Renzi after his resignation in 2016, Giuseppe Conte, an independent politician who governed both with right-wing and left-wing coalition in two consecutive cabinets, as well as Mario Draghi, a banker and former President of the European Central Bank, who was appointed by Mattarella to lead a national unity government following Conte's resignation.