Mattarella: “With the elections we will consecrate EU sovereignty”. And on June 2: “Democracy born from Liberation”

ROME. «In 1946 the choice of the Italian people for the Republic wrote a decisive page of democracy and laid the foundations for a renewed social pact, which would find complete articulation in the Constitutional Charter». The President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella says this in a message to the prefects for 2 June. «An outcome which was reached after the tragic war events and the struggle for liberation from Nazi-fascism, punctuated by multiple episodes of heroism, brutal massacres, the eightieth anniversary of which is commemorated during this year, with emotional participation. in numerous locations”, says the head of state. «Remembering the ideal legacy of those founding events is a civic duty and a precious opportunity to reflect together on the reasons that animate the life of our community, inserted today in the broader community of the European Union which we have decided to give life to with other free peoples of the continent and whose sovereignty we will consecrate, in a few days, with the election of the European Parliament”.