Who will participate in the funeral of Pope Francis: the Italians and then the kings and the queens, but it is the French language that imposes the order
What does the program includes for the 130 delegations coming from all over the world
Rome – Italy in the front row. Next to Argentina. Then all the others. Following An order marked by the French alphabet, that of diplomacy. And a protocol that resumes the procedures followed for the last farewell to Pope Wojtyla in April 20 years ago and then in January 2023 the one at the Pope emeritus Joseph Ratzinger. Tomorrow morning to the left of Francesco’s coffin on the churchyard of San Pietro will first take the president of the Republic Sergio Mattarellawith his daughter Laura and the premier Giorgia Melonibefore the presidents of Senate and Chamber, Ignazio La Russa and Lorenzo Fontana, because the ceremony takes place in a foreign state. To follow, they should sit The president of the Constitutional Court Giovanni Amoroso and the Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani. A precedence that has always been reserved for the Italian authorities as the Pope is also primate of the Church of Rome, bishop of the capital and representative of Catholicity.
Milei and his sister
Immediately after the protocol provides for the Argentine president Javier Mileiwhich in his country ordered seven days of mourning for the disappearance of his compatriot Francesco, passing from the insults of 2023 to the embrace in his holiness during the visit to the Vatican in the following year. With Milei there should also be his sister Karina, general secretary of the Argentine presidency.
Catholic sovereigns
At that point, always in the front row, it should be the turn of the reigning sovereigns of Catholic religion, such as The king of Spain Felipe VI and Queen Letizia OrtizKing Filippo del Belgium and Queen Mathilde, Alberto II of Monaco, the Grand Master of the Order of Malta, John Timothy Dunlap, and the royal non -Catholics, including Carlo XVI Gustavo of Sweden, Prince William of the United Kingdom, while in place of Harald V of Norway there will be the hereditary prince Haakon.
40 delegations are missing
At last night, the Vatican Secretariat Protocol Office confirmed the presence tomorrow in San Pietro of ten representatives of real families and principalities, together with fifty leaders of state and as many government, for a total of 130 delegations on 170 provided. But now after now the arrivals ads follow. Some representatives of foreign states have already arrived last night at the Fiumicino and Ciampino airports, with them also numerous cardinals.
The alphabetical order (based on French)
As said, The French alphabet will be used to assign the other places on the churchyard, starting with the presidents of the Republicthen move on to the premier and ministers.
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Only for the Italian delegation are not less than seventy people. Among the first places also those of the United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterresof the representatives of the European Union – with the presidents of the Council, the Commission and the Parliament, Antonio Costa, Ursula von der Leyen and Roberta Metsola -, the captains of regents of San Marino, Denise Bronzetti and Italo Righi.
Trump and Macron neighbor, Zelensky next to the Swiss president
Among the heads of state, always in the front row, therefore, the German and Austrian ones, Frank Walter Steinmeier and Alexander Van der Bellen, with their Albanian counterparts Bajram Begaj and Angolano João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço. And so on. With Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lulanext to the general governor of Canada Mary Simon and the heads of State of Capo Verde and Cyprus, José Maria Pereira Neras and Nikos Christadoulides. The French system will ensure a relative proximity to the square between Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron (États-Unis and France)however divided by the president of Finland Alexander Stubc, with The Ukrainian Head of State Volodymyr Zelensky Which will not be next to a US government representative, but to the presidents of the Swiss Confederation Karin Seller Sutter and Timor Est José Ramos Horta. Also next to Trump the former US president Joe Biden could sit who confirmed his presence in Rome yesterday by virtue of his close relationship with Pope Francis.
