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During a joint session of Parliament and the eighth round of voting, Italian President Sergio Mattarella was re-elected for a second term.

Points to Remember

Mattarella was re-elected by a landslide, out of 983 legislators and regional representatives, he received 759 votes in favour.

His candidacy came to light at the conclusion of a difficult week in which the center-left and center-right political blocs were unable to reach an agreement on a common candidate.

As a result, there were seven rounds of voting, all of the rounds yielded inconclusive results, revealing serious cracks in both alliances.

Background

In Italy, Presidents are seldom re-elected, only Giorgio Napolitano, Mattarella's predecessor, has previously served a second term. He was only in office for around two years.

The Italian presidential election is scheduled for 2022

The Italian presidential election of 2022 was held in Rome from January 24 to January 29, 2022. A combined session of the Italian Parliament and regional representatives chose the president. The election procedure was spread out across several days, Sergio Mattarella, the current president, was re-elected for a second term.

After Sandro Pertini in 1978, he earned 759 votes on the eighth ballot, earning him the second most votes ever received by a Presidential candidate.

Sergio Mattarella's second term

Sergio Mattarella had previously ruled out a second term. On January 29, he accepted to serve a second term at the request of most party leaders and Italy's Prime Minister (Mario Draghi). Previously, in multiple rounds of voting, he had gained strong and rising support.

On the third ballot, he earned 125 votes, 166 votes on the fourth, 336 votes on the sixth, and 387 votes on the seventh. It was the most votes cast in an Italian presidential election since 1992. On the 16th ballot in 1992, Oscar Luigi Scalfaro was chosen.

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