President Sergio Mattarella told
pupils at a Rome primary school on Wednesday that he was looking
forward to getting some rest when his seven-year term as head of
State ends next year.
"I was worried (when I was elected president) because I knew how
tough the job was," the 79-year-old president said.
"But two things helped me. I have excellent collaborators and,
above all, there is the fact that, on the basis of the
Constitution in Italy, there is not one single body that
decides, the decisions are distributed among many bodies.
"The president must know them all, follow them all, in order to
be able to intervene with suggestions.
"But in eight months' time my term as president ends.
"I am old and in a few months I will be able to rest".
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