Hours of apprehension for David Sassoli, the president of the European parliament, "since 26 December hospitalized in a hospital in Italy".

Hospitalization was necessary due to the occurrence of a serious complication due to a dysfunction of the immune system. And for this, the spokesman Roberto Cuillo declares, "all official activities are canceled".

In recent months Sassoli had been hospitalized at the Hôpital Civil in Strasbourg for pneumonia "not linked to Covid-19", he had specified at the time. The president of the European Parliament was taken to hospital on 15 September, while the president of the Commission Ursula von der Leyen was giving her speech on the State of the Union in Strasbourg.

His spokesman had made it known that the president would have to give up presiding over the plenary session due to a fever, spreading a note in the afternoon in which he explained that he had undergone a first swab and had tested negative for Covid-19.

In December he then announced that he was not interested in applying for the renewal of the office, motivating the choice for political reasons. “Moving forward - he explained - would mean splitting the so-called Ursula alliance. I am not available ”.

(Unioneonline / vl)

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