Giorgio Napolitano, who served as Italy's president from 2006 to 2015 — and was the first ex-communist to hold that post — died Friday. He was 98.
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Turin daily La Stampa once wrote of Napolitano:"He was the least communist Communist that the party ever enlisted." A former U.S. ambassador to Italy, Richard Gardner, in comments to The Associated Press in 2006, when Napolitano was first elected to be head of state, called him"a true believer in democracy, a friend to the United States." As ambassador, Gardner had helped arrange secret meetings with Napolitano at a time when any public meeting would have been seen as embarrassing for Italian Communists as well as U.S. politicians.
Like many other future politicians of his generation, Napolitano fought against the Italian Fascists and Nazi occupiers during. When the war ended, he joined the Communist Party, and in 1953, he was elected to Parliament, an office he would hold for 10 straight legislatures. During his long career, Napolitano also served as speaker of Parliament’s lower Chamber of Deputies and for five years as a lawmaker in the European Parliament.
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