The one-time communist was influential in steering the country through a debt crisis in 2011.
ROME: Former Italian president Giorgio Napolitano, a one-time communist who helped to steer his country through a debt crisis in 2011, died on Friday aged 98.
“I gratefully recall the personal meetings I had with him, during which I appreciated his humanity and foresight in making important choices with rectitude, especially at delicate times for the life of the country,” Pope Francis wrote in a telegram of condolences to Napolitano’s wife Clio Bittoni. The Italian presidency is usually mostly ceremonial, but Napolitano used his powers in late 2011 to stave off a crisis by naming the former European Commission technocrat Mario Monti to lead a government following the resignation of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in a dispute over spending cuts.
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