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Giorgio Napolitano, former Italian president and first ex-Communist in that post, dies at 98
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Antonio Masiello/Getty Images(LONDON) Former Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, the first in the country s history to be reelected to office, has died, according to the nation s press service ANSA. He was 98.
The former president, who served from 2006 until 2015, was the first in the country s history to be reelected to the office. He was the longest-serving and longest-lived president in the history of the modern Italian Republic.
He was also the first official from the Italian Communist Party to visit the United States. In 1978, he arrived in the U.S. to deliver a series of lectures at Harvard and other leading institutions.
The Naples-born politician came to be known as "Re Giorgio" ("King George") for providing stability amid the turbulence of Italian party politics and for ensuring a smooth transition of executive power.
Facing a deadlocked parliament in 2013, Napolitano reluctantly agreed to stay in office after his seven-year presidential term had ex
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