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Italian media, including but not limited to Corriere della Serra, reported late on Friday that the former president had died in a Rome hospital.
Prime Minister Giorgio Meloni’s office expressed the Italian government’s condolences to Napolitano’s family.
Napolitani, who served as president from 2006-2015, is the only person to be re-elected to the post.
Born in Naples in 1925, Napolitani began his political career by joining the Italian Communist Party in 1945. He was first elected to Italy’s Chamber of Deputies in 1953 and remained undefeated in every re-election campaign from then until 1996.
jsi/msh (dpa, Reuters)
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