Italy's former President, Giorgio Napolitano will lie in state in the Italian Senate until Monday evening, before receiving a secular state funeral in the Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday.
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00:00 Italy`s senior politicians gathered at the Palazzo Madama in Rome on Sunday to pay tribute
00:05 to former President Giorgio Napolitano, who passed away on Friday at age 98.
00:10 The first to arrive was his wife and children and then his successor and current head of
00:15 state Sergio Mattarella, followed by Pope Francis and the far-right Prime Minister Giorgia
00:20 Meloni.
00:21 The funeral chapel has been set up in the Senate and open to the public until Monday.
00:25 And on Tuesday, a secular state funeral without religious references will be held in the Chamber
00:30 of Deputies.
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