Former Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said on Friday (3) that former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi would be “an excellent president of the Republic”.
“I think Berlusconi would be an excellent president of the Republic, in foreign policy he did much more than many others”, said the leader of the ultranationalist League party during an event in Formello.
Asked what will happen in a few months with the election of a new president of Italy, Salvini replied: “And who knows?”
“I calculated that the new head of state will be elected by 1.009 people, including deputies, senators, senators for life and other delegates from the regions. Of these thousand, those that refer to the center-right area are 450, so I am not missing much,” he explained.
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Former Minister of the Interior He also highlighted that he doesn't mean he wants to elect a center-right head of state, but he wouldn't mind if that happened.
The president of the Italian Republic It is a more institutional position, as command of the government rests with the Prime Minister. He is considered the main guarantor of the Constitution and, more than enacting laws, he participates in the political game, mediating negotiations between parties.
The position is currently occupied by the former judge of the Constitutional Court Sergio Mattarella, who took over as head of State on February 3, 2015, after the resignation of Giorgio Napolitano, and is in the final stretch of his seven-year term. (Loop)
