"The sense of responsibility requires me not to shirk and prevails over my ideas and even my private life".
With a very short speech Sergio Mattarella agrees to hold the leadership of the Quirinale after seven years and for another seven years, accepting the request of the group leaders of the majority and 759 parliamentarians who have written his name on the ballot. The meeting of the Parliament in joint session for the traditional oath will be held on Thursday 3 February.
After a grueling week in which names and leaders have ended up in the meat grinder, Mattarella speaks of duty, of ongoing emergencies and of the need to "interpret" the needs of citizens that have sensationally emerged through the thrust of Parliament that has overwhelmed the parties unable to express an alternative name to yours.
"The difficult days spent for the election of the presidency of the Republic during the great emergency that we are still going through on the health, economic and social side - said, behind them the presidents of the Chamber and Senate Roberto Fico and Elisabetta Casellati in the rite of communicating the outcome of the elections - they recall a sense of responsibility and respect for the decisions of the Parliament ".
"DIFFICULT DAYS" - And difficult days they really were. Amidst the swirl of names that were punctually burned, agreements that seemed one step away and instead, a moment later, vanished into thin air. In the end, in Parliament, only one name collects more than three hundred preferences, as well as in Mattarella, and it is that of Casellati, herself a victim of the snipers of her coalition.The center-right is the first to have to deal with a disastrous result.
