Senators for life in Italy

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Senators for life in Italy (Italian: senatori a vita; m. sing. senatore a vita; f. sing. senatrice a vita) are members of the Italian Senate who are either appointed by the President of the Italian Republic "for outstanding patriotic merits in the social, scientific, artistic or literary field" or are former presidents and thus senators for life ex officio. A maximum of five appointed senators for life can be in office at the same time. Every Italian president has made at least one appointment of a senator for life, with the exception of Oscar Luigi Scalfaro (since in his term there were more than five) and inaugural officeholder Enrico De Nicola (whose provisional mandate only lasted two years). The president who appointed the highest number of senators for life was Luigi Einaudi, who made eight appointments during his term. Of the incumbent senators as of November 2026, President Giorgio Napolitano appointed professor Mario Monti on 9 November 2011, and researcher Elena Cattaneo, architect...

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