The former president of the Italian Republic Giorgio Napolitano dies at the age of 98

A grand state funeral like the one organized for Silvio Berlusconi last June is expected, as protocol orders.

Giorgio Napolitano, president of the Italian Republic for two consecutive terms (2006-2015), died this Friday at the age of 98 at the Spallanzani hospital in Rome, where he was admitted several days ago due to health complications, according to media reports. local.

Napolitano, who in recent years underwent several surgical interventions, resigned in 2015 after almost a decade as Head of State, being the first president of the Italian Republic to return for a second term.

Napolitano (Naples, 1925), who turned 98 on June 29, before becoming head of State, was president of the Chamber of Deputies, Minister of the Interior, European parliamentarian and senator.

A grand state funeral like the one organized for Silvio Berlusconi last June is expected, as protocol orders.

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