The condition of ailing 98-year-old
former Italian president Giorgio Napolitano, which has already
been critical for some time in a Rome clinic, has got worse over
the last two days, sources said Tuesday.
Napolitano, who served two terms between 2006 and 2015 to become
Italy's longest serving president and whose dominance of the
political scene earned him the nickname King George, was
admitted to the clinic shortly after turning 98 on June 29.
He served as interior minister before becoming a life Senator
and being elected head of State, Italy's first post-Communist
president, in 2006.
Napolitano, a noted Anglophile, was one of the most prominent
moderate reformers in the once-powerful Italian Communist Party
(PCI), the largest Communist party in western Europe.
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