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Mario Rosario Morelli was elected president of the Constitutional Court on Wednesday. Morelli was elected by a majority of the chamber of the court council with nine votes. Giancarlo Coraggio got five and Giuliano Amato only one. The new president, who succeeds Marta Cartabia, the first woman to hold the position, will remain in office until December 12, 2020, when her nine-year term as a constitutional judge expires, which began in December 2011. From December March 8, 2018, Morelli was Vice President of the Court.
Morelli, born in Rome in 1941, spent almost his entire career as a magistrate of the Court of Cassation of which he is currently president of the section. In his first appointment in the Supreme Court in 1984 he was judge of the first civil section, in 1999 he moved to the joint civil sections and in 2001 he arrived at the National Central Electoral Office of the same Court. In 2008 he joined the Executive Council of the Cassation.
Parallel to his functions in the Supreme Court, Morelli has also worked, since 1973, in the Constitutional Court that he now presides over. For almost thirty years, until 2000, Morelli was the first assistant to judge Giulio Gionfrida, then to Livio Paladin, and finally to Renato Granata. Morelli participated in the investigation of the only constitutional criminal trial for ministerial crimes, that of the Lockheed scandal, which in Italy involved the supply of C-130 transport planes, received by the Air Force from 1972 and in which politicians and military. accused of corruption.
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