Sergio Mattarella OMRI OMCA is an Italian politician, jurist, academic and lawyer who has served as the 12th and current president of Italy since 2015.
A Christian leftist politician, Mattarella served as 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, Mattarella was elected to the presidency at the fourth ballot, supported by a broad centre to centre-left majority led by the Democratic Party.