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Oscar Luigi Scalfaro
Rome, Italy
- DC (1946–1992)
- Independent (from 1992)
Maria Inzitari
(m. 1943; died 1944)Oscar Luigi Scalfaro (Italian:; 9 September 1918 – 29 January 2012) was an Italian politician who served as the president of Italy from 1992 to 1999. A member of Christian Democracy (DC), he became an independent politician after the DC's dissolution in 1992, and was close to the centre-left Democratic Party when it was founded in 2007. Before his election to the Presidency, he was a member of the Chamber of Deputies for Turin for 44 years from 1948 to 1992.