Giancarlo Coraggio is the new president of the Constitutional Court

On Friday, December 18, Judge Giancarlo Coraggio was unanimously elected president of the Constitutional Court. Courage, who is 80 years old and was elected constitutional judge on November 29, 2012 by the Council of State, of which he was president since January of the same year, will remain in office until January 28, 2022, when the mandate of nine years of constitutional judge. . His first act as president was the confirmation of Judge Giuliano Amato as vice president of the Court.

He replaces Mario Morelli, who was elected last September and remained in office until December 12, 2020, when his nine-year term as a constitutional judge expired, which began in December 2011. Morelli himself replaced Marta Cartabia. , first woman to hold the position.