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The health condition of former Italian president Giorgio Napolitano is deteriorating, Italian media report. The former 98-year-old Italian head of state has been showing a complicated clinical picture for some time, but recently the condition has become critical.
On 21 May 2022, Napolitano underwent abdominal surgery and was hospitalized for nine days at Spallanzani Hospital in Rome. While earlier on April 24, 2018, he was operated on for a partial aorta dysfunction.
Napolitano was elected President of the Republic on 15 May 2006 and then for a second time on 22 April 2013, this time remaining in office for less than two years.
Born in Naples in 1925, he was the eleventh President of the Italian Republic. In 1992 he succeeded Oscar Luigi Scalfato as President of the Chamber and in 1996 he was Minister of the Interior in the Prodi I government.
He was also the first president of the Republic to have served in the ranks of the Italian Communist Party, but also the first to receive a second envoy to the Quirinale. During his period as President of the Republic, he gave government mandates to five presidents and appointed five senators for life.
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