Sergio Mattarella is an Italian

Italy

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 politician.

Life

Mattarella was born in Palermo

Palermo

Palermo is a city in Southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Province of Palermo. The city is noted for its history, culture, architecture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,700 years old...

 . He is son of Bernardo Mattarella

Bernardo Mattarella

Bernardo Mattarella was an Italian politician for the Christian Democrat party . He has been Minister of Italy several times...

 and brother of Piersanti Mattarella

Piersanti Mattarella

Piersanti Mattarella was an Italian politician. He was assassinated by the Mafia while he held the position of President of the Regional Government of Sicily.-Background and early career:...

, both politician into Democrazia Cristiana.

He was elected deputy in 1983 by the left wing of Democrazia Cristiana; when It was dissolved, he joined the Italian popular party, then Democracy is Freedom – Daisy and now Democratic Party

Democratic Party (Italy)

The Democratic Party is a social-democratic political party in Italy, that is the second-largest in the country. The party is led by Pier Luigi Bersani, who was elected in the 2009 leadership election....

. He was minister for relations with parliament during Giovanni Goria

Giovanni Goria

Giovanni Giuseppe Goria was an Italian politician. He served as the 47th Prime Minister of Italy from 1987 until 1988.-Biography:Goria was born in Asti ....

 and Ciriaco De Mita

Ciriaco de Mita

Ciriaco Luigi de Mita is an Italian politician. He served as the 47th Prime Minister of Italy from 1988 to 1989 and is currently Member of the European Parliament.-Biography:De Mita was born in Nusco, in the Avellinese hinterland....

 governments and Italian Minister of Education into the sixth Andreotti's cabinet. He resigned when the Parliament approved Mammì's Act about television market.

From 1992 to 1994 was director of Il Popolo, the newspaper of his party, and after Italian referendums, 1993 he wrote the new electoral system act. After the 1996 general elections

Italian general election, 1996

An early national general election was held in Italy on 21 April, 1996 to elect members of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of the Republic...

 he was President of Italian Popular Party parliamentarian committee; when Massimo D'Alema

Massimo D'Alema

Massimo D'Alema is an Italian politician. He is also a journalist and a former national secretary of the Democratic Party of the Left...

 became new Prime Minister, Mattarella was named as his vice-premier. In 1999 he became Defense Minister and kept this position under Giuliano Amato

Giuliano Amato

Giuliano Amato is an Italian politician. He was Prime Minister of Italy twice, first from 1992 to 1993 and then from 2000 to 2001. He was more recently Vice President of the Convention on the Future of Europe that drafted the new European Constitution and headed the Amato Group. He is commonly...

 second government. He was re-elected in 2001 and 2006 general election

General election

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In 2011 he was appointed by the Parliament judge in the Constitutional Court.