Giuseppe Saragat was an Italian politician who was the fifth President of the Italian Republic from 1964 to 1971.

Saragat was born in Turin

Turin

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, from Sardinian

Sardinian

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 parents.

He was a reformist

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 socialist

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, who split from the Italian Socialist Party

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 in 1947, out of concern over its close (at the time) alliance with the Communists

Italian Communist Party

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, to found the Italian Socialist Workers' Party, which would soon become the Italian Democratic Socialist Party

Italian Democratic Socialist Party

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. He was to be the latter's paramount leader for the rest of his life.

Saragat was the foreign minister

Foreign minister

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 of Italy

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 from 1963 to 1964, and the President of the Italian Republic

President of the Italian Republic

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 from 1964. Its election was the result of one of the rare cases of unity of Italian left, threatened by rumors of a possible neo-fascist coup

Piano Solo

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 during Antonio Segni

Antonio Segni

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's presidency.

He died in Rome on 11 June 1988.

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