Le dichiarazioni pubbliche del Presidente Mattarella nella formazione del Governo e l’evoluzione dell’istituzione presidenziale

Abstract

The paper analyzes the role of the Head of State's influential judiciary in the formation of the Government, both following new political elections and in the management of government crises. As is well known, the Head of State, in order to carry out his activity of moderation, persuasion and stimulus towards the political bodies, has combined the formal presidential powers with informal tools and procedures of moral suasion. The informality of the aforementioned activities and procedures has allowed a greater margin of intervention and influence of the President of the Republic in the exercise of his functions of political intermediation, during the phases of government crisis management and formation of the new government, compared to what is allowed to him by the powers constitutionally attributed to him. In this regard, the Mattarella presidency has recorded both a line of continuity with the past, through the use of confidential communications, to dialogue with the political and parliamentary forces, in order to identify the political personality on which the consensus converged and to whom to entrust the task for the formation of the government, and some significant innovations consisting in the choice of informal tools of presidential persuasion that President Mattarella wanted to make public, breaking that aura of confidentiality that has always characterized the aforementioned presidential power in republican history. Despite the extension, or rather, the adaptation of presidential powers to the political, economic and social context, the interpretation of the role of the Head of State, during the formation of the Government by the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella, is overall constitutionally oriented.