List of presidents of Italy

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Multiple image The president of Italy (Template:Langx) is the head of state of the Italian Republic. Since 1948, there have been 12 presidents of Italy.

The official residence of the president is the Quirinal Palace in Rome. Among the Italian presidents, three came from Campania (all from Naples), three from Piedmont, two each from Sardinia (both from Sassari) and from Tuscany, one from Liguria, and one from Sicily. No woman has ever held the office.

Election

The president of the Republic is elected by Parliament in a joint session of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. In addition, the 20 regions of Italy appoint 58 representatives as special electors. Three representatives come from each region, save for the small Aosta Valley which appoints one, so as to guarantee representation for all localities and minorities.

According to the Constitution, the election must be held in the form of secret ballot, with all senators, all deputies and the 58 regional representatives all voting. A two-thirds vote is required to elect on any of the first three rounds of balloting and after that a majority suffices. The election is presided over by the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, who calls for the public counting of the votes. The vote is held in the Palazzo Montecitorio, home of the Chamber of Deputies, which is expanded and re-configured for the event.

The president assumes office after having taken an oath before Parliament and delivering a presidential address. Presidents are elected to serve a seven-year term. Giorgio Napolitano was the first president to be elected to a second term in 2013, followed by Sergio Mattarella in 2022. Template:Clear

Presidents of the Italian Republic (1948–present)

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Portrait	Name Template:Small	Term of office		Party		Election	Template:Abbr
		Took office	Left office
File:Enrico De Nicola (cropped).jpg	Enrico De Nicola Template:Small	1 January 1948Template:Efn	12 May 1948	width="1" rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color;"|	Italian Liberal Party	1947	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
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File:Luigi Einaudi official portrait.jpg	Luigi Einaudi Template:Small	12 May 1948	11 May 1955	width="1" rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color;"|	Italian Liberal Party	1948	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
		Template:Age in years and days
File:Giovanni Gronchi Official.jpg	Giovanni Gronchi Template:Small	11 May 1955	11 May 1962	width="1" rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color;"|	Christian Democracy	1955	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
		Template:Age in years and days
File:Antonio Segni Official 1962.jpg	Antonio Segni Template:Small	11 May 1962	6 December 1964Template:Efn	width="1" rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color;"|	Christian Democracy	1962	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
		Template:Age in years and days
File:Giuseppe Saragat (cropped).jpg	Giuseppe Saragat Template:Small	29 December 1964	29 December 1971	width="1" rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color;"|	Italian Democratic Socialist Party	1964	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
		Template:Age in years and days
File:Presidente Leone.jpg	Giovanni Leone Template:Small	29 December 1971	15 June 1978Template:Efn	width="2" rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color;"|	Christian Democracy	1971	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
		Template:Age in years and days
File:Sandro Pertini Official.jpg	Sandro Pertini Template:Small	9 July 1978	29 June 1985Template:Efn	width="2" rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color;"|	Italian Socialist Party	1978	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
		Template:Age in years and days
File:Cossiga Francesco.jpg	Francesco Cossiga Template:Small	3 July 1985	28 April 1992Template:Efn	width="1" rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color;"|	Christian Democracy	1985	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
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File:Oscar Luigi Scalfaro portrait.jpg	Oscar Luigi Scalfaro Template:Small	28 May 1992	15 May 1999Template:Efn	width="1" rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color;"|	Christian DemocracyTemplate:Efn	1992	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
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File:Ciampi ritratto.jpg	Carlo Azeglio Ciampi Template:Small	18 May 1999	15 May 2006Template:Efn	width="1" rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color;"|	IndependentTemplate:Efn	1999	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
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File:Presidente Napolitano.jpg	Giorgio Napolitano Template:Small	15 May 2006	14 January 2015Template:Efn	rowspan="2" width="1" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color;"|	Democrats of the Left / IndependentTemplate:Efn	2006 2013	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
		Template:Age in years and days
File:Sergio Mattarella Official (cropped).jpg	Sergio Mattarella Template:Small	3 February 2015	Incumbent	width="1" rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color;"|	IndependentTemplate:Efn	2015 2022	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
		Template:Age in years and days

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Substitute of the head of state

The Acting President of the Republic (Template:Langx) is an office not explicitly provided for in the Italian Constitution, but deriving from the provision contained in the article 86.<ref>Articolo 86, Costituzione della Repubblica Italiana, Brocardi</ref> On various occasions, officials had to intercede in the absence of a head of state (notably in the case of a president's resignation or ill health). Only Enrico De Nicola, who was elected to be provisional head of state by the Constitutional Assembly on 28 June 1946, had an official title and took residence in the Quirinal Palace.<ref>Decreto legislativo luogotenenziale, parlalex.it</ref> The others took the powers, but not the title of Head of State. After the adoption of the Italian Constitution in 1948, the president of the Senate is eligible to take the powers of head of state in case of absence of the President of the Republic.

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Portrait	Name Template:Small	Term of office		Party		Election	Template:Abbr
		Took office	Left office
File:Alcide de Gasperi 2.jpg	Alcide De Gasperi Template:Small	13 June 1946	1 July 1946	width="1" rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color;"|	Christian Democracy	—	Template:Efn
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File:Enrico De Nicola (cropped).jpg	Enrico De Nicola Template:Small	1 July 1946	31 December 1947	width="1" rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color;"|	Italian Liberal Party	1946 1947	Template:Efn
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File:Cesare Merzagora.jpg	Cesare Merzagora Template:Small	6 December 1964	29 December 1964	width="1" rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color;"|	Independent	—	Template:Efn
		Template:Age in years and days
File:Amintore Fanfani Senato.jpg	Amintore Fanfani Template:Small	15 June 1978	9 July 1978	width="1" rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color;"|	Christian Democracy	—	Template:Efn
		Template:Age in years and days
File:Cossiga Francesco.jpg	Francesco Cossiga Template:Small	29 June 1985	3 July 1985	width="1" rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color;"|	Christian Democracy	—	Template:Efn
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File:Giovanni Spadolini 2.jpg	Giovanni Spadolini Template:Small	28 April 1992	28 May 1992	width="1" rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color;"|	Italian Republican Party	—	Template:Efn
		Template:Age in years and days
File:Nicola Mancino 1996.jpg	Nicola Mancino Template:Small	15 May 1999	18 May 1999	width="1" rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color;"|	Italian People's Party	—	Template:Efn
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File:PresidentePietroGrasso.jpg	Pietro Grasso Template:Small	14 January 2015	3 February 2015	width="1" rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color;"|	Democratic Party	—	Template:Efn
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See also

• Lists of office-holders
• King of Italy, for previous Italian heads of state between 1861 and 1946
• List of prime ministers of Italy
• Politics of Italy
• Prime Minister of Italy

External links

• Template:In lang Template:Lang – official site of the president of Italian Republic