Former Prime Minister Ciriaco De Mita has died

The former prime minister and secretary of the DC, Ciriaco De Mita, died this morning at 7 in Nusco, in the province of Avellino, a city of which he was mayor.

This was announced by the deputy mayor, Walter Vigilante.

De Mita had undergone surgery last February for a fractured femur following a fall at home.

According to what was learned later, De Mita died in the Villa dei Pini nursing home in Avellino.

De Mita was following a rehabilitation process after the fracture of the femur in the fall last February.

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, expresses his deepest condolences for the death of Luigi Ciriaco De Mita. Prime Minister between 1988 and 1989, several times minister, protagonist of Italian parliamentary and political life in the Christian Democratic left, until The last was engaged in local institutions, as Mayor of the municipality of Nusco. To the family, the condolences of the whole Government ".

Palazzo Chigi communicates it.

"A fan of politics. A great leader who never shrank from making difficult choices. And who invested like few others in opening up politics to young people at a time when exactly the opposite was happening. Many, intense memories. ".

writes it on Twitter

, remembering Ciriaco De Mita.

"I thought his determination made him overcome even these ailments. Let's lower the flag, remember him and honor him as he deserves."

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at "Vg21 Mattina" on Canale 21, he remembers the former prime minister and former secretary of the Christian Democrats Ciriaco De Mita, who passed away this morning at the age of 94.

"In his idea of ​​politics, one thing was the divisions between parties on some issues, even important ones, but another was the search for all possible understandings to pursue a political battle. In this sense, despite having an angular character, he possessed a size such as to become the longest-serving secretary in the history of DC. As a leader - explains Pomicino - he managed the loss of six points in the 1983 elections, he built the alliance that after national solidarity became the backbone of the country's government In this, despite having triple the votes,

he had the entirely political capacity to sense that the center-left alliance had to be strengthened by offering Bettino Craxi the presidency of the council.

On that occasion, the alternation between DC and PSI at the helm of the government was born and, although their relations were not the best, this never affected the policy of that alliance ". According to Pomicino" the most evident proof was in the 84 on the escalator: to cool inflation, the government modified it, there was a hard clash with the PCI but De Mita did not hesitate in the least to move the party to the government, so much so that they went to the referendum and won among the workers and in the civil society ".

"A great protagonist of Italian politics disappears with Ciriaco De Mita. Often I have not shared his choices and ideas, but I shared with him years in the European Parliament in the group of the European People's Party where we had built a good human relationship. A prayer . Rest in peace".

, vice president of the European People's Party,

writes on Twitter .