President of Italy from 2006 to 2015
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Italy's longest-serving president, who came to the office from the old Italian Communist Party and never fully left it behind. During eight years at the top, he steered the country through debt crisis and parliamentary collapse — installing technocrats when elected governments failed — and earned the nickname "King Giorgio" from critics who thought he'd turn
Napolitano joined the Italian Communist Party in 1945 after fighting in the resistance, planted himself on its reformist right wing, and entered Parliament in 1953. A close friend of Henry Kissinger, he became the first high-ranking Communist to visit the United States in 1978. He served as president of the Chamber of Deputies from 1992 to 1994 and interior minister under Prodi from 1996 to 1998. Elected president in 2006 — the first ex-Communist to hold the office — he watched governments of left and right come and go, then in 2011 called on Mario Monti to form a cabinet after Berlusconi resi…
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We have reached the point, a moment that has never been experienced since 1989: we need to reflect on the absolute need for a new, fairer and more sustainable world order.
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