ROME: Former Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, a former communist who helped to steer his country through a debt crisis in 2011, has died at the age of 98, the prime minister's office said on Friday .
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's office expressed the Italian government's condolences to Napolitano's family. Two years later, he broke another impasse when he installed a grand coalition under centre-left politician Enrico Letta after an inconclusive parliamentary election.