Below is the biography and key institutional roles held by Giorgio Napolitano, the first President of the Republic to be elected twice consecutively to the Quirinal, who passed away today at the age of 98.
BIOGRAPHY. Giorgio Napolitano was born in Naples on June 29, 1925. He married Clio Bittoni in 1959, with whom he had two sons, Giovanni and Giulio. He graduated in law in December 1947 from the University of Naples with a thesis in political economy. In 1945-46, he was active in the movement for faculty student councils and was a delegate to the first National University Congress.
Since 1942, in Naples, having enrolled at the University, Napolitano was part of a group of young anti-fascists and joined the Italian Communist Party in 1945, of which he was a militant and then a leader until the formation of the Democratic Party of the Left.
From the autumn of 1946 to the spring of 1948 he became a member of the secretariat of the Italian Economic Centre for Southern Italy, chaired by Senator Paratore, and actively participated in the Movement for the Rebirth of Southern Italy from its inception (December 1947) and for over 10 years.
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INSTITUTIONAL OFFICES. Giorgio Napolitano was first elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1953 and served—except for the Fourth Legislature—until 1996, when he was re-elected for the Naples constituency. His initial parliamentary activity took place on the Committee on Budget and State Shareholdings, focusing—including in Assembly debates—on development issues in Southern Italy and on national economic policy. In the Eighth (from 1981) and Ninth Legislatures (until 1986), he was President of the Communist Group.
In the 80s, Napolitano was particularly involved in international and European political issues, both in the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chamber of Deputies, and as a member (1984-92 and 1994-96) of the Italian delegation to the North Atlantic Assembly, and through numerous political and cultural initiatives.
Since the 70s, he has been actively involved in conferences and debates abroad: at international politics institutes in Great Britain and Germany, and at numerous universities in the United States (Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Chicago, Berkeley, SAIS, and CSIS in Washington). From 1989 to 1992, he was a member of the European Parliament. In the 3th legislative session, on June 1992, 1994, Napolitano was elected President of the Chamber of Deputies, a position he held until the end of the legislative session in April XNUMX.
No longer a member of Parliament, Napolitano was appointed Minister of the Interior and for the Coordination of Civil Protection in the government led by Romano Prodi, from May 1996 to October 1998. In 1999, he was re-elected as a Member of the European Parliament, serving until 2004 as Chairman of the European Parliament's Committee on Constitutional Affairs. On September 23, 2005, the President of the Republic, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, appointed Giorgio Napolitano a senator for life. On May 10, 2006, Parliament elected him President of the Republic with 543 votes, and he was sworn in on May 15, 2006. On April 20, 2013, Napolitano was again elected Head of State with 738 votes, and was sworn in on April 22, 2013. He left his second term on January 14, 2014.
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