On 22 April 2013, Giorgio Napolitano oath for the second time. It has just been re-elected President of the Italian Republic. A historical re-election. After 5 rounds of voting, the parliament failing to elect a president, Napolitano agreed to stand by "duty of responsibility to the nation."
Legislative February that year were marked by political stalemate in parliament. In crisis in the euro zone, Italy is paralyzed politically. Whom a situation often experienced Napolitano during his two terms.
Law degree, Giorgio Napolitano, having joined the Italian Communist Party, was elected in 1953 for the first time until 1963 and then continuously from 1968 to 1996, until his appointment to the Ministry of Interior by Romano Prodi.
Before that, it is the European Parliament that it illustrates. Elected in 1989, he holds office as an MEP until 1992, then returned in 1999. He remained there five years. Convinced European, he especially will chair the Committee on Institutional Affairs until 2004.
Appointed senator for life by President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Giorgio Napolitiano was elected President of the Republic on 10 May 2006, after the fourth ballot. He was the first former communist elected to the Quirinale Palace. Then aged 80, his health is fragile. In 2008, during a ceremony where he had just received the title of Distinguished Professor in University of Trento, it is uncomfortable.
During his two terms, Napolitano saw successive five presidents of the Council, but it is undoubtedly Silvio Berlusconi that the reports have been the hardest. Political cohabitation first and opposite personalities. This is the head of state that gets in 2011 in the heart of the crisis of the euro for the resignation of Berlusconi.
The last 1 January, Giorgio Napolitano had sent a message to Pope Francis on the occasion of the World Day of Peace. Atheist, Italian President has always devoted a deep respect to the Holy See and the Church, to the point of having established a real relationship of trust and friendship with Benedict XVI in particular.
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