The 2022 Italian presidential election was held in Rome between 24 and 29 January 2022. The president of Italy was elected by a joint assembly composed of the Italian Parliament and regional representatives.[6] The election process extended over multiple days,[7][8][9] culminating in incumbent president Sergio Mattarella being confirmed for a second term,[10][11][12] with a total of 759 votes on the eighth ballot.[13] This was the second most votes (after Sandro Pertini in 1978) ever received by a presidential candidate.[14] Mattarella became the second president to be re-elected, his predecessor Giorgio Napolitano being the first.[15][16][17]
Mattarella had initially ruled out a second term.[18][19] On 29 January, he agreed to serve a second term,[20] as most party leaders and Mario Draghi, the prime minister of Italy, asked him to accept their joint nomination for another term.[21][22][23] Mattarella had previously already received significant and growing support in several rounds of voting, namely 125 votes on the third ballot,[24] 166 votes on the fourth ballot,[25] 336 votes on the sixth ballot,[26] and 387 votes on the seventh ballot.[27] Among Italian presidential elections, the 2022 election had the highest number of ballots since 1992, when Oscar Luigi Scalfaro was elected on the 16th ballot.[28]
^Armellini, Alvise (29 January 2022). "Sergio Mattarella re-elected as Italy's president with wide majority". Anadolu Agency. Retrieved 31 January 2022. Mattarella, a former Christian democrat minister and constitutional court judge who went into politics after his brother was slain by the Sicilian mafia in 1980, is the second president in a row, after Giorgio Napolitano, to serve a second term.
^"Sergio Mattarella re-elected as Italy's president with wide majority". Xinhua News Agency. 30 January 2022. Retrieved 31 January 2022. The re-election of a head of state is rare in Italy. So far, only Giorgio Napolitano, Mattarella's predecessor, had served a second term, and only for less than two years.
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