List of presidents of Italy
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- Top left: Enrico De Nicola was the first president of the Italian Republic.
- Top right: Giorgio Napolitano is the longest-serving president in Italian history.
- Bottom left: Antonio Segni was the first president to resign from office.
- Bottom right: Sergio Mattarella is the serving president of the Italian Republic.
This is a list of presidents of Italy since the monarchy ended and Enrico de Nicola became president.
List[change | change source]
| PLI | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N. | Portrait | Name
(Born–Died) |
Term of office | Party | Election | Prime Ministers | |||
| Took office | Left office | Time in office | |||||||
| 1 | 
|
Enrico De Nicola(1877–1959) | 1 January
1948[a] |
12 May
1948 |
132 days | style="background-color:style="background:#F8F9FA; width:{{{2}}}px; {{{3}}}" |;" width=10px | ;" | | Italian Liberal Party | — | De Gasperi |
| 2 | 
|
Luigi Einaudi(1874–1961) | 12 May
1948 |
11 May
1955 |
6 years, 364 days | style="background-color:style="background:#F8F9FA; width:{{{2}}}px; {{{3}}}" |;" width=10px | ;" | | Italian Liberal Party | 1948 | De Gasperi Pella Fanfani Scelba |
| 3 | 
|
Giovanni Gronchi(1887–1978) | 11 May
1955 |
11 May
1962 |
7 years, 0 days | style="background-color:#87CEFA;" width=10px | ;" | | Christian Democracy | 1955 | Scelba Segni Zoli Fanfani Segni Tambroni Fanfani |
| 4 | 
|
Antonio Segni(1891–1972) | 11 May
1962 |
6 December
1964[b] |
2 years, 209 days | style="background-color:#87CEFA;" width=10px | ;" | | Christian Democracy | 1962 | Fanfani Leone Moro |
| 5 | .jpg)
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Giuseppe Saragat(1898–1988) | 29 December
1964 |
29 December
1971 |
7 years, 0 days | Italian Democratic Socialist Party | 1964 | Moro Leone Rumor Colombo | |
| 6 | 
|
Giovanni Leone(1908–2001) | 29 December
1971 |
15 June
1978[c] |
6 years, 168 days | Christian Democracy | 1971 | Colombo Andreotti Rumor Moro Andreotti | |
| 7 | 
|
Sandro Pertini(1896–1990) | 9 July
1978 |
29 June
1985[d] |
6 years, 355 days | Italian Socialist Party | 1978 | Andreotti Cossiga Forlani Spadolini Fanfani Craxi | |
| 8 | 
|
Francesco Cossiga(1928–2010) | 3 July
1985 |
28 April
1992[e] |
6 years, 300 days | Christian Democracy | 1985 | Craxi Fanfani Goria De Mita Andreotti | |
| 9 | 
|
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro(1918–2012) | 28 May
1992 |
15 May
1999[d] |
6 years, 352 days | Christian Democracy | 1992 | Andreotti Amato Ciampi Berlusconi Dini Prodi D'Alema | |
| 10 | 
|
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi(1920–2016) | 18 May
1999 |
15 May
2006[d] |
6 years, 362 days | Independent[f] | 1999 | D'Alema Amato Berlusconi | |
| 11 | 
|
Giorgio Napolitano(born 1925) | 15 May
2006 |
14 January
2015[g] |
8 years, 244 days | Democrats of the Left / | 2006 | Prodi Berlusconi Monti Letta Renzi | |
| 2013 | |||||||||
| 12 | 
|
Sergio Mattarella(born 1941) | 3 February
2015 |
Incumbent | 7 years, 101 days | Independent[h] | 2015 | Renzi Gentiloni Conte Draghi | |
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Notes[change | change source]
- ↑ He was already provisional Chief of state it:Capo provvisorio dello Stato since 1 July 1946.
- ↑ Resigned due to health reasons.
- ↑ Resigned due to a bribery scandal.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Resigned in order to bring forward the inauguration ceremony of the President-elect.
- ↑ Resigned in order to favor the resolution of the political crisis after the 1992 general election.
- ↑ Ciampi was a member of the Action Party, which was dissolved in 1947.
- ↑ Resigned due to age reasons.
- ↑ Mattarella was a member of the Christian Democracy, of the Italian People's Party, of The Daisy and of the Democratic Party, but he quit political commitment when he left the Parliament in 2008.