When was the last time the Catholic Church excommunicated a government official for political reasons?
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I don't know if this is exactly what you're looking for but I'll throw it out. There's a wikipedia article of Catholic excommunications. Most recent ones are over abortion like this one in 2012 where apparently Catholic lawmakers in Uruguay were excommunicated for giving a yes vote towards legalizing abortion. This is contested and Catholic officials clarified that there was this sort of blanket excommunication on people carrying out abortions and it wasn't applied to lawmakers for voting yes. So conflicting reports here on whether or not they were actually excommunicated and for what reason but I think it would qualify as a political one if it actually happened (it was reported on by a couple newspapers).
I might have to agree with Mark Wallace in the comments however because it's difficult to separate religion and politics in this case. Anything the pope does is inherently tinged with religion and any sort of documentation on the excommunication will couch it with explicitly religious reasons.
The other one that seemed to fit your criteria was the alleged excommunication of Fidel Castro for being part of the Communist Party. I attempted to follow some newspaper links and articles but I couldn't find one that really summed things up nicely, lots of dead links. But it is also contested that there was a personal excommunication of Fidel Castro.
It's definitely a tool that has fallen by the wayside and only seemed effective as a political tool when the Pope was at the height of his power. For example Napoleon was excommunicated but it doesn't seem to have stopped him from acting against Pope Pius VII. A far cry from when other emperors were laid low by the Pope exercising his power.
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