The former federal coordinator of IU, Julio Anguita , has died at the age of 78 after failing to overcome a cardiac arrest that he suffered during the morning of last Saturday. The also former mayor of Córdoba has passed away at the Reina Sofía Hospital in the capital, where he was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

Before arriving at the hospital, a team from 061 had to undergo cardiopulmonary resuscitation after being in cardiac arrest. He was subsequently intubated and transferred to the Cordovan medical center, where he has been under mechanical ventilation until the time of his death .

For more than two decades, he had been persecuted by heart problems to the former secretary general of the Communist Party of Spain, which led him to undergo various operations on several occasions. The first heart attack came in 1993, during the campaign during the May general elections. The second trial by fire came in 1998, affecting the second coronary artery, which was also damaged in 1993. He had to be admitted to the Reina Sofía de Córdoba, where he underwent an emergency catheterization due to an obstruction in the artery.

The 'caliph' returned to the operating room in 1999 , when he had to undergo an emergency operation at the Ramón y Cajal Hospital in Madrid where a triple bypass was installed.

Already in 2000, heart problems continued to take their toll on the former Malaga politician, having to undergo surgery in 2003, also in Córdoba. Six years later, in 2009, he had to be admitted to the Puerta del Mar hospital in Cádiz due to an arrhythmia that he would suffer again in 2014 . On this occasion, the medical team of the Hospital Clínico de Salamanca had to place two stents in the coronary arteries, thus favoring better blood circulation.

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