ROME – Maria Fida Moro, ex-senator and daughter of former Prime Minister Aldo Moro, has died aged 77, her family announced on Wednesday. She died in Rome after battling a long illness.

 She was the eldest daughter of Aldo Moro, leader of the Christian Democracy. Her father was kidnapped and murdered by the Red Brigades when she was 31.

 Leader of the Senate, Ignazio la Russa, informed the senate and asked the assembly to observe few moments of silence.

 She was senator between July 1987 and April 1992. Initially she was elected in Puglia as part of the Christian Democracy, however left the party three years later and switched allegiance to the Communist Refoundation Party.

 In 1993 she joined the Italian Social Movement when she ran for mayor of Fermo but was not elected. She also participated in the establishment of the National Alliance.

 Her last foray into politics was in 2016 when she ran in the Rome municipal elections with the centrist Più Roma-Democratici e Popolari in support of the mayoral candidate Roberto Giachetti, however, was not elected.

 She dedicated many years of her life to the Moro case and often accused Francesco Cossiga, former President of Italy, as being partly responsible for her father’s murder.

 Political parties including Forza Italia, Fratelli d’Italia and the Union of the Centre have all offered their condolences to Moro’s family and said they are “deeply saddened” by her passing.

 Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni expressed her condolences on X, saying Maria Fida Moro was a "tenacious woman driven by civil commitment", noting that she "fought with determination for the rights of relatives of victims of terrorism." 

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