Sergio Mattarella celebrates his birthday on 23 July. We with great gratitude can only toast and wish him a happy one birthday. And we can only thank him for having acquitted in this period of emergency, a a very difficult role; remind us of the importance of national unity. A role that he has carried out with dedication since 2015, the year of his election.
Sergio Mattarella the grandfather of the Italians
Twelfth president in chronological order of the Italian Republic, he was elected on January 31, 2015 on the fourth ballot and with 665 votes. In recent years he has had to manage complicated situations and be an impartial arbiter of Italian politics. With his reassuring appearance and his frank and balanced speech he is carrying out his mandate, undermined in this complicated year, even by the covid - 19 pandemic. A particular birthday, therefore, this one, which however brings him closer to all of us.
President Mattarella is the grandfather that each of us would like to have, always ready for a caress and a word of comfort. Ways of doing and behaviors that have deep roots; in his formative and political experiences but, above all, in the family ones that have marked him indelibly. The death of his brother Piersanti in 1980, at the hands of the mafia, a Palermo, when he was president of the Sicily Region, it has seen him increasingly politically committed to the defense of legality.
Mattarella: a life for politics and legality
Sergio Mattarella was born on 23 July 1941, the third child of Maria Buccellato and Bernardo Mattarella. His father was a fervent politician, militant in the Christian Democrats, appointed minister between the fifties and sixties five times. Politics, therefore, in the Mattarella household has always been daily bread. As a boy this leads him to an active militancy in the Male Youth of Catholic Action. After graduating in law in 1964, enrollment in the register and academic career at the Institute of Public Law of the University of Palermo, in 1983 he entered parliament.
By family tradition he is Christian Democrat and close to Aldo Moro. His political career it is very intense. In 1987 he was appointed minister for relations with the parliament but, the thorniest assignment was carried out in 1989. In that year, in fact, he was entrusted with the Ministry of Education. Under his supervision, the first renewal of the school system was promoted. He was also Minister in the D'Alema and Amato governments.
Happy birthday, President
Politically very active, he will always try to pursue his ideals, in order not to compromise political and ethical. In 2011 the Parliament in joint session elected him a judge of the Constitutional Court. A very important step for his future election as Head of State. His name appeared already in 2013 in the list of the probable successors of Giorgio Napolitano. This position will then be conferred upon the resignation of the president in January 2015. Since that moment Sergio Mattarella is the president of the Italians.
A president who demonstrates every day with his words and actions that only united can we go forward. And in a difficult time like the one we have lived and are still living alone collaborating we can rebuild our country as our grandparents did in the past. For this and much more, therefore, we can only wish the president a happy birthday, hope that his words can be a beacon for all of us.
