Mattarella: 'Fortunately the president is not a sovereign' - News.com.au. President Sergio Mattarella underlines this while speaking to the Casagit leaders at the Quirinale.
'When the President of the Republic promulgates a law, he does not make the law his own', explained the head of state. 'Freedom of the press is fundamental for our democracy, as for any democracy', added Mattarella. 'This too is part of freedom, respecting the freedom of all those to whom the Constitution assigns a task', he added.