1. Pietro Grasso became the Acting President of Italy on 14 January 2015, upon the resignation of Giorgio Napolitano.
13 Facts About Pietro Grasso
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Pietro Grasso was then replaced in his role, until he was appointed deputy prosecutor at the National Anti-Mafia Directorate, applied in the Procure of Palermo and Florence, where he supervised and coordinated the investigations on the massacres of 1992 and 1993.
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Pietro Grasso's appointment was at the center of bitter controversy in judicial and political, as it was very likely the appointment of the Prosecutor at the Court of Palermo Gian Carlo Caselli.
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On 18 September 2006 the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of Catanzaro, with support from the National Prosecution led by national prosecutor Pietro Grasso, concludes a two-year on the action of certain mafias of Vibo Valentia, who had put his hands on his holiday parks the coast.
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From September 2012 to Rai History in 12 episodes, Pietro Grasso leads "Lessons Mafia", a project of legal education, dedicated to the younger generations to explain all the secrets of Cosa Nostra.
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Twenty years later, solicited in this regard, Pietro Grasso agreed to go back to tell young people about the Mafia.
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On 27 December 2012, Pietro Grasso requested leave of absence from the CSM, and the next day told the press that he intended to stand for election with the centre-left Democratic Party in the 2013 Italian general election.
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On 8 January 2013, the national leadership of the Democratic Party candidate Pietro Grasso was elected in the Italian Senate as a candidate of the list PD for the Lazio region.
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Pietro Grasso decided to go ahead against the advice of a Senate parliamentary committee, who voted 10 to 8 against the indictment.
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On 14 January 2015, on the resignation of Giorgio Napolitano, Pietro Grasso became the Acting President of the Italian Republic.
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Pietro Grasso served in that position until the swearing in of Sergio Mattarella on 3 February 2015.
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Pietro Grasso left the Democratic Party on 26 October 2017, the same day the new electoral law was approved definitively by the Senate.
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On 3 December 2017, Pietro Grasso was appointed leader of Free and Equal, a left-wing political alliance of parties, formed by the Democratic and Progressive Movement, Italian Left and Possible.