Giorgio Napolitano

Giorgio Napolitano, OMRI is an Italian politician who was the 11th President of Italy from 2006 to 2015. Due to his dominant position in Italian politics, critics often refer to him as Re Giorgio . He is the longest serving President in the history of the modern Italian Republic, which has been in existence since 1946.

Giorgio Napolitano was born in Naples, Italy, in 1925. His father Giovanni was a liberal lawyer. In 1942, he matriculated at the University of Naples Federico II. He adhered to the local University Fascist Youth , where he met his core group of friends, who shared his opposition to Italian fascism. As he would later state, the group was in fact a true breeding ground of antifascist intellectual energies, disguised and to a certain extent tolerated.

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