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May 10, 2006 / 1:35 PM

Italy elects ex-communist as president

ROME, May 10 (UPI) -- Italian Sen. Giorgio Napolitano Wednesday became the first ex-communist to be elected president of the nation, a report said.

The 80-year-old former interior minister and House speaker will succeed Carlo Ciampi, 85, whose 7-year presidential term ends May 18, Italian news agency ANSA reported.

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It took four rounds of voting to select Napolitano, whose candidacy outgoing Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi rejected because of Napolitano's onetime membership in the Italian Communist Party.

Napolitano was elected by a coalition led by incoming Prime Minister Romano Prodi in voting by the House, Senate and representatives of 20 regions in Italy.

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