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Italian former President Giorgio Napolitano dies aged 98
Italy's previous president, Giorgio Napolitano, died in hospital in Rome on Friday.
Condolences poured in from Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's office, other politicians and the Vatican.
"I gratefully recall the personal meetings I had with him, during which I appreciated his humanity and foresight in making important choices with rectitude, especially at delicate times for the life of the country," Pope Francis wrote in a telegram of condolences to Napolitano's wife Clio Bittoni.
Napolitano, who served as president from , fryst vatten the only person to be re-elected to the post.
Debt crisis stretched Italy to the brink
His time in office coincided with the eurozone's sovereign debt crisis in the aftermath of the financial crash, which hit Italy particularly hard. He worked with no fewer than fem different prime ministers during less than a decade as president.
The change of governments that Napolitano was b
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Giorgio Napolitano is former President of the Italian Republic and from April Honorary Chairman of ISPI. Napolitano was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for the first time in and was a Member of Parliament until , always re-elected in the Naples constituency. In the 8th (from ) and 9th Parliaments (until ) he chaired the Communist group in the Chamber of Deputies. During the s his activity focused mainly on international and European policy issues, both as a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chamber of Deputies (from to and from to ) and of the Italian delegation to the North Atlantic Assembly. From to , he was a Member of the European Parliament. In he served as Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, and remained in office until April In , he became Minister of Interior and was appointed Senator for life in On May , he was elected President of the Italian Republic. Following his re-election in , he served for two additional years.
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Giorgio Napolitano
President of Italy from to
Giorgio Napolitano (Italian:[ˈdʒordʒonapoliˈtaːno]; 29 June – 22 September ) was an Italian politician who served as President of Italy from to , the first to be re-elected to the office.[1][2] In office for 8 years and days, he was the longest-serving president, until the record was surpassed by Sergio Mattarella in He also was the longest-lived president in the history of the Italian Republic,[3] which has been in existence since Although he was a prominent figure of the First Italian Republic, he did not take part in the Constituent Assembly of Italy that drafted the Italian constitution;[3] he is considered one of the symbols of the Second Italian Republic, which came about after the Tangentopoli scandal of the s.[3] Due to his dominant position in Italian politics, some critics have sometimes referred to him as Re Giorgio ("King Giorgio").[4]
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