Oscar Luigi Scalfaro is dead: former President of the “ there I am! ”

d. Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, former President of the Republic.


The ’ former President of the Republic Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, you turned off this night in Rome, had 93 years. The news was given by Twitter, journalistic sources.

The ’ former President and Senator for life, Scalfaro has had a career in the institutions really extraordinary, dismayed, until his election in 1992 to head of State, a position held until 1999.
Many will remember his commitment to defense of the Constitution, and the ’ television intervention on the evening of 3 November 1993, when he interrupted a Uefa Cup match to launch a speech known as the “ there I am! ”, where scandal Sisde and replied to all the charges leveled against him.


The ’ current President of the Republic, Giorgio Napolitano remembers so l ’ l ’ man and friend: “ was a protagonist of democratic political life in the decades of Republican Italy ’, example of ideal consistency and moral integrity ”.

The funeral will take place privately, Monday at 14 in the Church of Santa Maria in Trastevere, however a mortuary, in the Church of Sant Egidio ’, always from 10.30 to 13.30 Monday, to give the possibility to people to bring their own greeting all ’ former President of the Republic.




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