The former president of Italy, Giorgio Napolitano, has passed away at the age of 98.
Giorgio Napolitano was born in Naples on June 29, 1925. He married Clio Bittoni and they are the parents of two sons, Giovanni and Giulio.
Napolitano graduated in law from the University of Naples. From 1942, when he was a student, Napolitano joined an anti-fascist group and in 1945 he joined the Italian Communist Party where he then became a leader, a post he held until the creation of the Democratic Party of the Italian Left. .
Napolitano was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for the first time in 1953 and, apart from the Fourth Legislature, he has been present in parliament as a deputy until 1996, always elected in the Naples area.
From June 1999 to 2004, he headed the Constitutional Affairs Committee in the European Parliament. In 2005, Napolitano was elected Senator for life.
In May 2006, Girgio Napolitano was elected President of Italy with 543 votes. In April 2013, Napolitano would be re-elected President with 738 votes, thus becoming the only president of Italy to be re-elected twice.
During his duties as president of Italy, Napolitano visited our country, Albania, twice.