Napolitano, whose mandate will end on May 15, made the remarks on Saturday in Rome after local media reported that the president might resign to get around constitutional provisions which do not allow Italy’s president to dissolve parliament and call elections during his final months in office.
Napolitano said that he would keep making efforts to find a way out of the deadlock, which has prevented Italy from forming a government since February’s general elections that resulted in a hung parliament.
“I will continue until the last day of my mandate to do as my sense of national responsibility suggests, without hiding from the country the difficulties that I am still facing,” he said.
But, the 87-year-old head of state conceded that he might not succeed to force the divided parties to find a way out of political situation that he said was “frozen between irreconcilable positions”.
Italy’s political leaders should have “a greater sense of responsibility,” Napolitano noted.
The center-left Democratic Party with its leader, Pier Luigi Bersani, received the majority of votes (29.5 percent) in the February 24-25 elections, but not enough to form a majority in parliament.
Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s center-right alliance finished second with 29.1 percent of votes.
And comedian Beppe Grillo’s anti-establishment Five Star Movement won 25.5 percent of votes in the elections campaigning on an anti-austerity platform.
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