Rome, 3 Sept. (LaPresse) – Fabio Mussi passed away last night at Sant’Eugenio Hospital in Rome. AVS announced this in a statement. The former minister in the Prodi government, a long-standing figure on the left and currently a leading member of Sinistra Italiana (Avs), was born in Piombino (Livorno) on 22 January 1948. At a very young age, he joined the Central Committee of the Italian Communist Party (PCI), for which he later served as a member of parliament from 1992 to 2008 (PDS, DS). He was leader of the PDS-Ulivo parliamentary group in 1996 and then, in 2001, Deputy Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies. He served as deputy editor of *Rinascita* and later as co-editor of *L’Unità*. He did not join the PD, and played a part in the formation first of SEL and then of Sinistra Italiana. Details on how to pay one’s last respects will be announced by the family in the coming hours.
AVS: Fabio Mussi, former minister and long-standing figure of the left, has died aged 78
Rome, 3 Sept. (LaPresse) – Fabio Mussi passed away last night at Sant’Eugenio Hospital in Rome. AVS announced this in a statement. The former minister in the Prodi government, a long-standing figure on the left and currently a leading member of Sinistra Italiana (Avs), was born in Piombino (Livorno) on 22 January 1948. At a very young age, he joined the Central Committee of the Italian Communist Party (PCI), for which he later served as a member of parliament from 1992 to 2008 (PDS, DS). He was leader of the PDS-Ulivo parliamentary group in 1996 and then, in 2001, Deputy Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies. He served as deputy editor of *Rinascita* and later as co-editor of *L’Unità*. He did not join the PD, and played a part in the formation first of SEL and then of Sinistra Italiana. Details on how to pay one’s last respects will be announced by the family in the coming hours.