While the bill on the Premiership to strengthen the powers of the Prime Minister is under the spotlight these days, the Antonio Segni Foundation instead focused on the powers and limits of the President of the Republic, in a meeting held in the Chamber Magna of Sassari.
Here are some of these addressed: does the President of the Republic have the power to exclude the nomination of a Minister, as Mattarella did in relation to Savoina proposed for the Ministry of Economy by the Conte Government? What are the powers and limits of the highest state office? And again, what is the role of constitutionalists within Parliament today?
The opportunity for the discussion was created by the presentation of the new volume published by FrancoAngeli editore, entitled “Antonio Segni ei giuspubblicisti”. Correspondence on the powers of the President of the Republic”, edited and with an introductory essay by Professor Salvatore Mura, professor of Contemporary History in the Department of Law of the University of Sassari.
The book collects seventy-five letters that Antonio Segni and thirteen authoritative legal scholars exchanged during 1956 when Segni was Prime Minister and later between 1962 and 1964, during the years of his presidential mandate.
Among the speakers are Giovanni Tarli Barbieri, professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Florence, Alessandro Giacone, professor of History of Political Institutions at the University of Bologna, the constitutionalist Omar Chessa, Riccardo Brizzi, professor of Contemporary History at the University of Bologna and of course the president of the Segni Foundation, Mario Segni.
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