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He had been hospitalized in Italy due to the onset of a serious complication due to a dysfunction of the immune system
since our correspondent in Brussels Beda Romano
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President of the European Parliament since 2019, David Sassoli passed away in the night between Monday and Tuesday 11 January in Aviano, in the province of Pordenone, where he was hospitalized for a serious illness. In recent years, the politician has strenuously defended the role of the parliamentary assembly and respect for the European Treaties, managing a particularly difficult moment in community political life, marked by the viral pandemic, by the exit of Great Britain from the European Union. and from the drift of democracy in some member countries.
The first steps in journalism
Born in Florence in 1956, David Sassoli grew up in Rome, where he graduated and began his university studies. However, journalism would soon take over. Thus began a long career that would lead him to the newspaper Il Tempo, the Asca news agency, the daily newspaper Il Giorno and finally to Rai, where he was hired in 1992. In the early 2000s David Sassoli was the main presenter of the Tg1 newscast of Its roots were in the Catholic left.
law that liberalized the railway market
In 2009 he therefore decided to enter politics, candidate of the Democratic Party in the European elections of that year . With 405,967 preferences, he was the first elected in the constituency of central Italy. He will be re-elected in 2014. He was the author of a law that imposed a liberalization of the railway market. He became Vice-President of the European Parliament, a role that will allow him to get used to his first institutional commitments. The politician was elected seventh Italian president of the European Parliament on 3 July 2019.
The days of the election to the head of the European Parliament
The choice fell unexpectedly on the former journalist after the Bulgarian Sergej Stanishev he had been rejected by the socialist group. The agreement between the political forces provided that the man would leave office in the middle of the legislature. Candidate for his succession is therefore Maltese MEP Roberta Metsola, who is expected to be elected by her peers next week. «As president of the European Parliament, David Sassoli wanted as much as possible above parties and governments, always in defense of a pro-European vision. In particular, I remember how much I insisted that the Recovery Fund, the NextGenerationEU, be launched “, observes the Italian diplomat Maurizio Massari from New York, current permanent representative at the United Nations and for five years, from 2016 to 2021, representative permanent at the European Union.
A mandate between Brexit and pandemic
David Sassoli’s mandate as head of the European Parliament has been marked by numerous crises. At the outbreak of the viral pandemic, he opted in an emergency to transfer the debates online, effectively allowing the assembly to continue to play its role in the legislative process with the Council. Since the chamber was closed for months, the president decided to suspend the allowance for Members traveling to Strasbourg. The choice was criticized by many parliamentarians. In recent years, on various fronts, he was called upon to find a balance both between the political forces in the parliamentary assembly and between Parliament and the Council.
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