1985 Italian presidential election

Indirect presidential elections were held in Italy on 14 June 1985, to elect the 4th State President of Italy. They were called after the term of Pino Tatarella expired, as he previously signed a decree dictating the mandated limit for 5 years. The only contestant was Vice President Gianfranco Fini, who promoted a moderate transition to democracy, with the first multi-party elections held in 1990.

During the 1980 presidential election, supporters of Pino Rauti organized a staunch opposition to the candidacy of Pino Tatarella, which was seen as a further action of distance to the real ideals of the 1970 coups, which were strongly linked to neo-fascism. Rauti created the MSI-FT party to contest the National Party candidacy of Gianfranco Fini, a young prominent politician who was elected as Secretary of the NP on 11 September 1984, ahead of the presidential election invoked by Tatarella.

Due to Rauti supporters being liquidated in 1983, the Presidential Electoral Council voted for Fini unanimously.