After the recovery of Moro's body, the Minister of the Interior Francesco Cossiga resigned, gaining trust from the Communist party, which would later make him the first President of the Italian Republic.

It was not until his last two years as President that Cossiga began to express some unusual opinions regarding the Italian political system.

* On August 19, 2011 the prosecutor of Bologna placed under investigation two German terrorists, Thomas Kram and Christa Margot Frohlich, both linked to the group of terrorist Carlos, who would be present in Bologna on the day of the attack, thus following the trail of Palestinian terrorism, never accepted by the president of the family victims Paolo Bolognesi and instead repeatedly revived by Francesco Cossiga.

Cossiga declared that his support for D ' Alema was intended to end the conventional exclusion of the former Communist Party ( PCI ) leaders from the premiership in Italy.

Cossiga died on 17 August 2010 because of respiratory problems.

In 2007, in a statement published by the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, Cossiga commented on the 11 September attacks and on a video attributed to Osama Bin Laden 2001.

The only Presidents ever to be elected on the first ballot are Francesco Cossiga and Carlo Azeglio Ciampi.

* President of the Italian Republic Francesco Cossiga, conferred the decoration of Commendatore della Repubblica Italiana on him on January 24, 1986.

Francesco Cossiga, former head of secret services and Head of state of Italy, advised the 2008 minister in charge of the police, on how to deal with the protests from teachers and students: He should do what I did when I was Minister of the Interior.

Senator Fosson, who abstained from the vote of confidence on Berlusconi IV Cabinet, joined a centrist group composed of the South Tyrolean People's Party, the Union of Christian and Centre Democrats ( three senators, all coming from Sicily ), one senator of the Associative Movement Italians Abroad and three senators for life ( Giulio Andreotti, Francesco Cossiga and Emilio Colombo ).

Francesco Cossiga, on March 15, 1991, at the time of his presidency, said he had been wrong to define " fascist " the massacre at Bologna station and had been misinformed by the secret services.

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As President of the Republic, Cossiga was Head ( and also Knight Grand Cross with Grand Cordon ) of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic ( from 3 July 1985 to 28 April 1992 ), Military Order of Italy, Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity, Order of Merit for Labour and Order of Vittorio Veneto and Grand Cross of Merit of the Italian Red Cross.

Andreotti was one of the most likely candidates to succeed Cossiga as President of the Republic in 1992.

Francesco Cossiga ( 1928 – 2010 ) was an Italian politician, the 43rd Prime Minister and the eighth President of the Italian Republic.

Cossiga was born in Sassari in the north of Sardinia.

In 1977, when Cossiga was minister of internal affairs, police squads organized by Cossiga shot against a demonstration in Rome, killing student Giorgiana Masi.

Cossiga for many years stated that she was killed by her companions.

Cossiga was also minister of internal affairs when Fascist terrorists bombed Bologna station in 1980.

During the early 1980s, Cossiga attacked several times the antimafia judges and spoke in favour of judge Corrado Carnevale, a member of the Corte di Cassazione ( Italy's supreme court ) who had annulled numerous sentences against mafia leaders and was later tried for these actions.

Cossiga was elected President of the Italian Senate 1983, a position he held until 1985, when he became the President of Italy.

These statements, soon dubbed " esternazioni ", or " mattock blows " ( picconate ), were considered by many to be inappropriate for a President and, often, beyond his constitutional powers ; also, his mental health was doubted and Cossiga had to declare " I am the fake madman who speaks the truth.

Tension developed between Cossiga and the President of the Council of Ministers Giulio Andreotti.

Cossiga announced his involvement in the establishment of the organization.

According to the Italian Constitution, after his resignation from the office of President, Cossiga became lifetime senator, joining his predecessors in the upper house of parliament, with whom he also shared the title of President Emeritus of the Italian Republic.

In February 1998, Cossiga created the Unione Democratica per la Repubblica ( a political party ), declaring it to be politically central.

In 1999 UDR was dissolved and Cossiga returned to his activities as a senator, with competences in the Military Affairs ' Commission.

However, the previous year Cossiga had stated that he rejects theoretical conspiracies and that it " seems unlikely that the rather impossible September 11 was the result of an American plot.

In the same statement, Cossiga claimed that a video tape circulated by Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda and containing threats against Silvio Berlusconi was " produced in the studios of Mediaset in Milan " and forwarded to the " Islamist Al-Jazeera television network.

* 1928 – Francesco Cossiga, Italian politician, 8th President of Italy ( d. 2010 )

** Francesco Cossiga, Italian politician, 8th President ( d. 2010 )

He resigned his commission in 1834 to return to Kentucky to care for his dying wife, who succumbed two years later to tuberculosis.

Immediately after this, Algardi produced an interactive sculptural group representing the beheading of Saint Paul with two figures: a kneeling, resigned saint and the executioner poised to strike the sword-blow, for the church of San Paolo, Bologna.

Meyer became director when Gropius resigned in February 1928, and brought the Bauhaus its two most significant building commissions, both of which still exist: five apartment buildings in the city of Dessau, and the headquarters of the Federal School of the German Trade Unions ( ADGB ) in Bernau.

* On 24 January 2008, Peter Hain resigned his two cabinet posts ( Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Secretary of State for Wales ) after the Electoral Commission referred donations to his Deputy Leadership campaign to the police.

Seven members of the university board ( of about a hundred ) also resigned in support of Graham, including Graham himself and two of his staff members.

Also in that year, she was made one of the visiting physicians of the East London Hospital for Children, becoming the first woman in Britain to be appointed to a medical post, but she found the duties of these two positions to be incompatible with her principal work in her private practice and the dispensary, as well as her role as a new mother, so she resigned from these posts by 1873.

As a consequence, the two vice presidents, belonging to other parties, resigned as well to be able to vote.

After two years, he resigned from his ambassadorship because of disagreements with U. S. government policy.

In September 1943, Orwell resigned from the BBC post that he had occupied for two years.

Three provisional presidents held office during this interval ; one resigned and the army deposed the other two, Franck Sylvain and Fignolé.

He resigned the captaincy after a loss and a draw in the first two Tests of the 1981 Ashes series.

Prime Minister Hata resigned less than two months later.

In October 45 BC, Caesar resigned his position as sole consul, and facilitated the election of two successors for the remainder of the year which theoretically restored the ordinary consulship, since the constitution did not recognize a single consul without a colleague.

Polgár was able to attack with her rooks on Kasparov's king which was still in the centre of the board and when he was two pawns down, Kasparov resigned.

Dalglish resigned as manager of Liverpool ( on health grounds ) on 22 February 1991, two days after a 4 – 4 draw with rivals Everton in an FA Cup fifth round tie at Goodison Park, in which Liverpool surrendered the lead four times.

The cabinet of Algirdas Brazauskas resigned on May 31, 2006 as President Valdas Adamkus expressed no confidence in two of the Ministers, formerly party colleagues of Brazauskas, over ethical principles.

In 1852 he accepted a medical professorship of comparative anatomy at Charlestown, Massachusetts, but he resigned in two years.

She resigned the presidency two months ahead of the end of her term of office to take up her post in the United Nations.

Carroll was not seriously injured and Alosi resigned nearly two months later.

Although Bismarck hoped to become a diplomat, he started his practical training as a lawyer in Aachen and Potsdam, and soon resigned, having first placed his career in jeopardy by taking unauthorized leave to pursue two English girls, first Laura Russell, niece of the Duke of Cleveland, and then Isabella Loraine-Smith, daughter of a wealthy clergyman.

Although the two men came to an agreement to share power, John VI resigned from his imperial post and became a monk.

Subsequently, his wife, Kathryn Greiner, resigned in protest from the two positions she held at the University as chair of the Sydney Peace Foundation and a member of the executive council of the Research Institute for Asia and the Pacific.

After two mediocre years, Spurrier resigned after the 2003 season with three years left on his contract.

In 2000, two computer hard drives containing classified data were announced to have gone missing from a secure area within the laboratory, but were later found behind a photocopier ; in 2003, the laboratory's director John Browne, and deputy director, resigned following accusations that they had improperly dismissed two whistleblowers who had alleged widespread theft at the lab.