Sergio Mattarella has been the President of Italy since 2015. He was an Italian politician, jurist, scholar, and lawyer. He was born on July 23, 1941. Mattarella, a Christian leftist politician, was a key member of the Christian Democracy party from the early 1980s until its demise.
From 1987 to 1989, he was Minister of Parliamentary Relations; from 1989 to 1990, he was Minister of Education.
Sergio Mattarella wife
His wife died in 2012.
Sergio Mattarella children
He has three children: Laura (born in 1967), Bernardo Giorgio (born in 1968), and Francesco (born in 1970). (1973). Laura, his daughter, has taken on the role of de facto First Lady, joining her father on official visits outside of Italy.
Sergio Mattarella parents
His father, Bernardo Mattarella, was an anti-fascist who co-founded Christian Democracy (DC) with Alcide De Gasperi and other notable Catholic politicians, dominating the Italian political landscape for over fifty years, with Bernardo serving as a minister numerous times.
Maria Buccellato was born into an upper-middle-class Trapani family.
Sergio Mattarella siblings
On January 6, 1980, his older brother, Piersanti Mattarella, a DC politician and president of Sicily since 1978, was assassinated in Palermo by the Sicilian Mafia.
