The Italian left was in
mourning Monday for politician, journalist and former Resistance
fighter Pietro Ingrao, who died at the weekend, aged 100.
Ingrao was for many years a senior figure in the former
Italian Communist Party (PCI).
"We will miss his passion, his sobriety, his gaze, his
restlessness, which made him one of the most lucid and
inconvenient witness of the 20th century, of the Left, of our
country," said Premier Matteo Renzi.
"His political passion will remain a part of the national
heritage, his interior liberty an example to younger
generations," said President Sergio Mattarella.
The CGIL trade union federation saluted "the friend of the
labor movement".
"Thank you Pietro Ingrao," said FIOM metalworkers leader
Maurizio Landini.
"A Communist, a partisan, at the service of the labor
movement, always with a free and critical way of thinking, to
transform and change the society of the commercialization of
labor and people and to raise the banners of liberty, of civil
rights, of the development of the democratic regime".
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