David Sassoli, mortuary today: state funeral on Friday

David Sassoli’s funeral home in the Sala della Protomoteca in Campidoglio will open to the public today at 10.30 in Rome. State funeral on Friday 14 January. The funeral of the president of the European Parliament will be held at 12 in the church of Santa Maria degli Angeli, in Piazza della Repubblica. Read also President Sassoli died at 1.15 on 11 January last in the Aviano Cancer Reference Center where he had been hospitalized since 26 December, explained the spokesman, “due to the onset of a serious complication, due to a dysfunction of the immune system “. He would have turned 66 on May 30th and was born in Florence. Professional journalist since 1986, he was deputy director of Tg1 from 2006 to 2009. Elected European parliamentary for the Democratic Party in the 7th legislature, he was head of the Pd delegation within the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats. Re-elected at the 2014 European Championships, he was Vice-President of the European Parliament from July 2014 to May 2019. He reapplied to the vote on May 26, 2019 in the district of central Italy, and was re-elected again with 128,533 votes. On 3 July 2019 he was elected president of the European Parliament, the seventh Italian to hold the office, with 345 votes on the second ballot. On 15 December, one month after the end of his mandate, he announced that he would not reapply for the presidency of the European Parliament in order “not to divide the pro-European majority”. Then the hospitalization and, on the night of last Tuesday, the death.