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Giorgio Napolitano, the former president of the Republic operated

The president emeritus of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano he underwent surgery at the Spallanzani in Rome. «The intervention conducted with a minimally invasive technique was successful. The patient is currently hospitalized in intensive care. The President is awake with a steady clinical picture. The prognosis remains confidential ”, reads the hospital note. The operation was performed on Friday 20 May, but communicated only on Saturday, indicating that hospitalization in intensive care is precautionary.

The first was elected for a second term, the first who came from the Italian Communist Party. Giorgio Napolitano was the 11th President of the Republic: he was at the Quirinale from 15 May 2006 to 14 January 2015.

Born on 29 June 1925 a Naples, is the son of Giovanni Napolitano, lawyer, poet and essayist, and of Carolina Bobbio. He studied at the classical Umberto I of Naples and then graduated from the Tito Livio of Padua. These are the war years. The family moves. In 1942 he enrolled in the faculty of law of the Federico II University of Naples, he is part of the Fascist University Group, as was necessarily a lot of the students, but with the group of historical friends, many linked to literature and theater, such as Francesco Rosi, Giuseppe Patroni Griffi and Raffaele La Capria, begins to approach anti-fascism.

In 1945 he joined the PCI and in 1947 he graduated in law with a thesis on political economy on the lack of industrial development in the South. It is precisely the economic issues of Southern Italy that he will deal with in Parliament where he enters in 1953, always reconfirmed, except for a legislature, until 1996.

In 1959 he married the lady in the Capitol in a civil ceremony Clio, always remained next to him. She has two children, Giovanni, born in 1961, and Giulio, born in 1969.

For Palmiro Togliatti he was one of the young people to be given space in the post-war party. The leader followed the position in the praise of theSoviet intervention in Hungary. A position that has changed over the years. He himself wrote it in his biography saying that his story did not remain the same at the starting point, but “passed through decisive evolutions of international and national reality and through personal, profound, declared revisions”. This is demonstrated by the 1980 condemnation of the invasion of Afghanistan by the USSR.

Over the years, the right wing of the PCI assumed moderate positions within the Party, also acting as an intermediary with the governments in office from time to time and dealing with culture and economics. The current of him has been defined improvementist. Many of his activities abroad. In 1978 it was the first leader of the Italian Communist Party to receive a visa to go to the United States and in the following years he always maintained a position of full loyalty to the US, so much so that Henry Kissinger defined him as his favorite Communist and he also maintained excellent relations with Barack Obama.

Giorgio Napolitano was also MEPpresident of the Chamber in the years of Tangentopoli e Interior Minister in the Prodi I government (one of the immigration laws bears his name, the Turco-Napolitano, the one that establishes temporary detention centers for irregular immigrants). Already in 2005 he was a senator for life, appointed by Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, before being president of the Republic, the oldest head of state in Europe.

He arrived at the Quirinale on 10 May 2006, with the fourth vote, with 543 votes out of 990 voters. Just two months later he is at the Olympiastadion in Berlin to see Italy win the World Cup for the fourth time. It only happened to Sandro Pertini during the 1982 final. He should have ended his term on 15 May 2013, but the April 22 of that year he was sworn in for a second term, after the request for a transversal deployment of political forces followed by days of stalemate. His is a timed re-election. He knows and announces it. On January 14, 2015, the president resigned him, announced in his last year-end message.

During the years of his two mandates, Romano Prodi, then Silvio Berlusconi (with whom they accuse him of being too soft), the technician Mario Monti, Pier Luigi Bersani, Enrico Letta for the government of broad agreements and Matteo Renzi pass the government. In the opinion of most, he has kept his promise to be the president of all.

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Source: Vanity Fair

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