President of Italy Sergio Mattarella net worth, wife, brother

Sergio Mattarella is known as jurist, academic, lawyer and Italian politician,  who has served as the president of Italy since 2015. Mattarella has rejected the resignation of Prime Minister Mario Draghi, issuing “Italy is once again in the middle of a debt crisis”. Mattarella was married to Marisa Chiazzese, who died in 2012. How much does he have his net worth till today? Come down to know more about Sergio Mattarella net worth, wife, brother, and many more:

How much does Sergio Mattarella earn as President of Italy? Net worth & salary

The president of Italy has amassed a significant fortune as a result of his successful political and lawyer career . Mattarella  assumed office as president on3 February 2015. Sergio Mattarella net worth is $1 Billions. As of 2022, the president Sergio is paid a salary of € 18,300 per month and is calculated for thirteen months. The annual income is around 239 thousand euros., plus an unspecified expense account for travel, goods, and services while in office. 

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Sergio Mattarella has had a long career. He was a minister before becoming President of the Republic, and before that he was a lawyer. His career path is filled with accomplishments and fulfillment. From 1983 to 2008, the Head of State was a politician, for which he received a large pension. Adding this pension to his pay as a judge of the Constitutional Court and as a university professor, Mattarella would have earned 2 million and 800,000 euros between 2008 and 2015.

How did he begin his political career and rise to the position of President of Italy?

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Mattarella, a Christian leftist politician, was a leading member of the Christian Democracy party from the early 1980s until its dissolution. From 1987 to 1989, he was Minister of Parliamentary Relations, and from 1989 to 1990, he was Minister of Education. Mattarella was one of the founding members of the Italian People’s Party (PPI) in 1994, and he served as Deputy Prime Minister of Italy from 1998 to 1999, and as Minister of Defense from 1999 to 2001.

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He joined The Daisy in 2002 and was a founding member of the Democratic Party (PD) in 2007. Which he left when he withdrew from politics in 2008. From 2011 to 2015, he was also a judge on the Italian Constitutional Court.

Mattarella was elected president on the fourth vote on January 31, 2015, with the support of a center-left coalition majority led by the PD and centrist parties. On 29 January 2022, he was re-elected for a second term. Becoming the second Italian president to be re-elected, the first being his predecessor, Giorgio Napolitano.

As of 2022, four prime ministers have served under his presidency. Mario Draghi is known as an economist, banker, former professor, civil servant and  Italian politician who has been serving as the prime minister of Italy since 2021 but something went wrong. Italian President Sergio Mattarella has rejected the resignation of Prime Minister Mario Draghi, issuing “Italy is once again in the middle of a debt crisis”.

Who was Sergio Mattarella wife Marisa Chiazzese? Biography & Wedding

Mattarella was happily married to Marisa Chiazzese. His wife was only the love of his life. She died in 2012. Marisa Chiazzese, Sergio Mattarella wife, was born in Palermo. She was the daughter of academician Lauro Chiazzese, former rector of the University of Palermo and professor of Roman law. Marisa Chiazzese, Irma’s sister, and Piersanti, Mattarella’s brother, murdered by the Cosa Nostra in 1980.

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They had met in Palermo before traveling to the capital. Sergio and his wife married in 1966, and they had three children: Laura, Francesco, and Bernardo Giorgio. The couple were married for 46 years before his wife died in 2012.

Since her father’s election in 2015, Sergio daughter Laura has accompanied him as first lady to official meetings and Quirinale celebrations. The regulation that applies to Heads of State states that if a president is accompanied by his wife, whoever meets him must also be attended, as Ernestina Saragat Santacatterina and Marianna Scalfaro had done before her.

Sergio Mattarella wife Marisa Chiazzese cause of death: How did she die?

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Marisa Chiazzese died on March 1, 2012, in Castellammare del Golfo, due to a tumor. (An abnormal mass of tissue formed when cells expand and divide faster than they should or fail to die when they should.) Tumors can be benign (not cancerous) or malignant  (cancer). Benign tumors can grow to be quite large, but they do not spread or infect surrounding tissues or other sections of the body.)

Sergio Mattarella recalled her during a public speech on National Cancer Research Day.

“ To follow the person most dear to me in the world, I spent several weeks in cancer hospitals several times . It would be desirable for people in good health to spend a few days visiting hospitals from time to time. Because contact with suffering would help anyone to give everything the right place in life ”. 

Mattarella’s elder brother is married to the sister of his wife: On January 6, 1980, he was killed by the Mafia.

Marisa Chiazzese was the sister of Piersanti Mattarella’s wife, Irma Chiazzese. The two brothers had married two sisters after falling in love. Piersanti Mattarella, President of the Sicily Region, killed by the mafia on January 6, 1980. While on his way to church with his family for the Epiphany Mass, accompanied by his wife, two children, and mother-in-law. He was shot with at least eight revolver rounds just before starting the engine.

From 2005 to 2017, another brother, Antonio Mattarella, was managing director of Goldman Sachs’ Investment Banking division.

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