{"id":74869,"date":"2022-01-11T15:00:16","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T15:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=74869"},"modified":"2022-01-11T15:00:16","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T15:00:16","slug":"eu-parliament-president-david-sassoli-has-died-spokesman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=74869","title":{"rendered":"EU parliament president David Sassoli has died: spokesman"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"News Desk:<\/strong> The president of the European Parliament, David Sassoli, died early Tuesday in hospital in Italy, his spokesman said on Twitter.<\/p>\n

The 65-year-old Italian had been seriously ill in hospital for more than two weeks due to a dysfunction of his immune system.<\/p>\n

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“David Sassoli passed away at 1.15 am on 11 January at the CRO in Aviano, Italy, where he was hospitalized,” his spokesman Roberto Cuillo tweeted.<\/p>\n

“The date and place of the funeral will be communicated in the next few hours.”<\/p>\n

The former television newsreader had been in hospital since December 26 due to “a serious complication due to a dysfunction of the immune system,” Cuillo had said on Monday, announcing the cancellation of Sassoli's official activities.<\/p>\n

Sassoli was previously admitted with pneumonia for several weeks last September.<\/p>\n

The European Parliament sits for a five-year term between elections, but the president of the body serves for half that time.<\/p>\n

Sassoli had already indicated that he would not seek re-election.<\/p>\n

He was born on May 30, 1956, in Florence, Italy.<\/p>\n

After a three-decade career as an Italian journalist, starting out in newspapers then moving to television and becoming a nationally known anchor, Sassoli became a member of the European Parliament in 2009, and speaker in 2019.<\/p>\n

He was a member of the centre-left Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats, the second-biggest grouping in the parliament after the centre-right European People's Party.<\/p>\n

Although his role was that of speaker, he had the title of president of the European legislature. His arrival in the chamber was traditionally announced in Italian as “Il Presidente”.<\/p>\n

Unlike some EU officials, who speak in English and French in public appearances, Sassoli had made a point of using Italian.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday next week, MEPs are expected to hold the first round of voting for his successor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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