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Giorgio Napolitano
Giorgio Napolitano was an Italian politician who served as the president of Italy from 2006 to 2015. At the time the longest-serving president in Italian history, and the first to achieve re-election, he played a dominant role in Italian politics for almost a decade, leading some critics to refer to him as Re Giorgio.
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culture · President of Italy from 2006 to 2015 · politician · journalist · also Giorgio Napolitano, Napolitano
Born 29 June 1925 · Died 22 September 2023 · Q1220
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2025· 1 entry
2023· 6 entries
Yahoo: Giorgio Napolitano, former Italian president and first ex-Communist in that post, has died at 98
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Died 2023-09-22.
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Won: Source (September 2023).
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Napolitano was hospitalized in Rome shortly after his 98th birthday on 29 June
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Was the longest-serving Italian President as well as the longest-lived Italian President on record
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Gianni Letta dismissed the conspiracy theories related to the alleged 2011 coup against Belusconi
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2015· 3 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Pavia (2015).
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Won: Italy (January 2015).
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Career landmark: Italian senator for life (2015–2023).
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2014· 1 entry
Awarded Decoration of Gjergj Kastrioti Skanderbeg presented by Bujar Nishani (2014).
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2013· 2 entries
Was implored by the governing parties to remain as prime minister
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Accepted re-election reluctantly; before his resignation in 2015 due to age reasons, he again played a key role in forming Italy's first grand coalition government and ending the political stalemate
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2012· 5 entries
Awarded Order of the White Eagle presented by Bronisław Komorowski (2012).
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Won: Netherlands (October 2012).
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Won: Poland (June 2012).
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Awarded Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour (2012).
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Won: France (November 2012).
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2011· 5 entries
Won: Croatia (July 2011).
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Awarded Decoration for Exceptional Merits (2011).
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Won: Romania (September 2011).
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Awarded Collar of the Order of the Star of Romania (2011).
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“Osservatore Romano. About the Fall of Communism, he spoke of the”
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2010· 8 entries
Awarded Dan David Prize (2010).
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Won: Malta (June 2010).
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Won: Syria (March 2010).
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Awarded Order of the Umayyads presented by Bashar al-Assad (2010).
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Awarded doctor honoris causa from the Paris-Sorbonne University (2010).
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Awarded Prix de la laïcité (2010).
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Awarded National Maltese Order of Merit (2010).
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Was awarded the Dan David Prize "for his dedication to the cause of Parliamentary democracy, thereby contributing to a strengthening of democratic values and institutions in Italy and Europe; and for his courage and i
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2009· 3 entries
Won: Turkey (November 2009).
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Won: Sweden (March 2009).
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Received the Medaglia Teresiana at the University of Pavia
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2008· 6 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2008).
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Awarded Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of the White Rose of Finland (2008).
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Awarded Grand Collar of the Order of the Southern Cross presented by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (2008).
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Won: Finland (September 2008).
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When Berlusconi won the ensuing elections, while he succeeded in 2011 when he mandated Monti to form a government, a decision that remains controversial and polarizing but that it is considered to have saved Italy during
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And 2011, he refused to hold snap elections and favoured the formation of new governments instead to carry out reforms
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2007· 6 entries
Won: Slovakia (February 2007).
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Won: Austria (June 2007).
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Won: Qatar (November 2007).
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Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of the White Double Cross presented by Ivan Gašparovič (2007).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Madrid Complutense (2007).
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Awarded Grand Star of the Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria (2007).
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2006· 6 entries
Awarded Collar of the Order of Pope Pius IX presented by Benedict XVI (2006).
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Won: Italy (May 2006).
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Won: Vatican City (November 2006).
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When Napolitano was elected president of the Italian Republic, Gardner stated to the Associated Press Television News that he considered Napolitano "a real statesman", "a true believer in democracy", and "a friend of the
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Career landmark: President of Italy (2006–2015).
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Career landmark: member of the Senate of the Italian Republic (2006–2006).
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2005· 3 entries
Career landmark: Italian senator for life (2005–2006).
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Napolitano was appointed a senator for life in Italy by then president Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
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Could be re-elected, being favoured by the centre-right coalition over D'Alema; Ciampi refused, and the frontrunner soon became D'Alema
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2004· 1 entry
Awarded Commander of the Order for Merits to Lithuania (2004).
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1999· 1 entry
Career landmark: Member of the European Parliament (1999–2004).
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1998· 4 entries
Won: Italy (October 1998).
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Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic presented by Juan Carlos I of Spain (1998).
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Won: Spain (September 1998).
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Awarded Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (1998).
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1997· 2 entries
Awarded Leibniz-Ring-Hannover (1997).
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And on the occasion of his presidential election, when his staff described the attribution of authorship to Napolitano as a "journalistic myth"
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1996· 2 entries
Career landmark: Italian Minister of the Interior (1996–1998).
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Career landmark: minister without portfolio for the coordination of civil protection (1996–1998).
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1994· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic (1994–1996).
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1992· 3 entries
Napolitano was elected president of the Chamber of Deputies, replacing Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, who became president of the Italian Republic
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Career landmark: President of the Chamber of Deputies of Italy (1992–1994).
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Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic (1992–1994).
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1989· 2 entries
Career landmark: Member of the European Parliament (1989–1992).
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“Siamo arrivati al dunque, ad un momento che mai si era vissuto dal 1989: occorre riflettere sull’assoluta esigenza su cosa possa essere un nuovo, più giusto e sostenibile ordine mondiale.”
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1987· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic (1987–1992).
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1984· 1 entry
Napolitano was among the possible successors as secretary of the party; Alessandro Natta was elected instead, and it was the second time that he came close to the party's highest position, the first time being in 1972 wh
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1983· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic (1983–1987).
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1979· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic (1979–1983).
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1976· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic (1976–1979).
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1972· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic (1972–1976).
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1968· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic (1968–1972).
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1964· 1 entry
Following the death of Togliatti, Napolitano was one of the main leaders who supported an alliance with the Italian Socialist Party, which, after the end of the Popular Democratic Front, joined the government with Christ
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1958· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic (1958–1963).
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1956· 1 entry
Largely thanks to the support offered by Togliatti, who wanted to involve younger politicians in the central direction of the party
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1953· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic (1953–1958).
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Took an assiduous interest in parliamentary life and was president of the Chamber of Deputies from 1992 to 1994
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1947· 1 entry
Graduated in jurisprudence with a final dissertation on political economy, entitled Il mancato sviluppo industriale del Mezzogiorno dopo l'unità e la legge speciale per Napoli del 1904 ("The Lack of Industrial Develop
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1946· 1 entry
Which was represented by Giuseppe Paratore, where he remained for two years
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1945· 3 entries
After taking part in the Italian resistance movement, and of its post-Communist democratic socialist and social democratic successors, from the Democratic Party of the Left to the Democrats of the Left
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Napolitano joined the PCI
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Napolitano became the PCI's federal secretary for Naples and Caserta
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1944· 1 entry
Along with the group of Neapolitan communists, such as Mario Palermo and Maurizio Valenzi, Napolitano prepared the arrival in Naples of Palmiro Togliatti, the long-time leader of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) who was
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1942· 1 entry
Matriculated at the University of Naples Federico II, studying law
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1925· 1 entry
Born 1925-06-29.
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