Italian left mourns Pietro Ingrao, dead at 100

(ANSA) - Rome, September 28 - 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".