Sergio Mattarella OMRI OMCA K.U.O.M. GColL RSerafO KBE (Italian pronunciation: ; born 23 July 1941) is an Italian politician, jurist and academic, who is serving as the 12th and current President of Italy since February 2015.
Mattarella was previously 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, he was elected by the Italian Parliament to serve as President of the Italian Republic.
Sergio Mattarella was born in Palermo, in a prominent Sicilian family. His father, Bernardo Mattarella, was an anti-fascist who, alongside Alcide De Gasperi and other prominent Catholic politicians, founded the Christian Democracy (DC), which dominated the Italian political scene for almost fifty years, with Bernardo serving as a minister several times; while her mother, Maria Buccellato, came from an higher middle class family of Trapani.
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