Will new Italian President be a Notary or a Ruler?
Oxford, UK, February 2015Following the appointment of Sergio Mattarella as the new Italian President, Professor Mauro Tebaldi’s analysis of the growing powers of former President Giorgio Napolitano during the 2010 – 14 crisis, and his impact on Italian democracy, has now become even more germane.
During the period of political and economic crisis in Italy, the President of the Republic became the central institutional actor of the Italian parliamentary government; viewed as a vehicle for internal stability by some, deemed democracy’s worse enemy by others. The key questions remain: were