Sergio Mattarella re-elected as Italian president for a second term
CNN
Italy's current president Sergio Mattarella has been re-elected for a second mandate, speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, Robert Fico, announced Saturday.
Mattarella received 759 out of a possible 1009 votes from "great electors" -- the members of parliament and regional representatives charged with electing the president in a process that does not involve the public -- at the eighth ballot of voting.
His re-election marks just the second time in history that an Italian president has served a second term. In 2013, Giorgio Napolitano was the first to serve a second term since Italy becoming a republic in 1946, but he resigned after two years in 2015.
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