Quirinale, Mattarella immediately received thousands of messages from citizens and dozens of messages from heads of state from all over the world
The hopes of Italians in a phase of exiting the pandemic, the central role of Parliament on the domestic front, the Ukrainian crisis and the weight of Italy in the new Europe on the international front. The settlement discourse will unfold on these two strands Sergio Mattarella held today at 15.30 in Montecitorio, after having sworn on the Constitution.
A speech of about twenty minutes, for which there is a lot of anticipation, because it will help to understand what will be the register with which the President intends to interpret his second seven years. Elected last Saturday with 759 votes, second most voted after Sandro Pertini, Mattarella immediately received thousands of messages from citizens and dozens of messages from heads of state from all over the world. In receiving the communication of the vote, the President thanked Parliament for the trust expressed in him, painted last week’s negotiations as “difficult days” and recalled that Italy is going through a “serious emergency on the health front, on the economic one, on the social one “, all elements that” refer to a sense of responsibility “and also to respect for the decisions of the Chambers in which popular sovereignty is exercised.
Precisely emergencies, he said, “they impose not to shirk the duties to which one is called“prevailing over personal projects” with the commitment to interpret the expectations and hopes of our fellow citizens. “The country is still wounded by the virus, much has been done, but the commitment of everyone, each in their own role, is needed to make restart Italy.
Even the messages reached the Quirinale by the thousands from private citizens, he recalled Mattarella in a tweet “constitute a precious solicitation for the commitment at the service of Republic“. An explanation, which will certainly be expanded, of the forced choice of accepting a re-election towards which the President had expressed all his opposition to the end. And which will focus on the importance of everyone’s participation in the choices, which is a real duty. In the End of the Year speech there was a strong underlining of the importance of “link, essential in democracy, which exists between institutions and society“, a bond that” must be continuously strengthened by responsible action, by the loyalty of those who find themselves carrying out a public office pro-tempore, at all levels. But it could not resist without the support of citizens “.
But Italy will remember the Head of state, will also have to deal with the crisis that has broken out at the gates of Europe, to upset a precarious balance that unfolds between relations with neighboring Russia, the enlargement of the EU and the defense of NATO partners. A very high-tension situation that could become the real agenda for the coming months.
And the role of Italy inEuropean Union that is being reformed after the pandemic crisis will be the other node to which the President will pay attention in a speech that everyone expects less critical than what Giorgio Napolitano he addressed the Chambers on the day of his second inauguration. Not that there are no criticisms to be made of politics, but such is the amount of commitments that await the institutions, starting with Parliament and the government, that the emphasis should be put more on what to do to respond to the needs and hopes of the citizens, especially young people, who on the limits that emerged last week.
Therefore the focus will also and above all be on the impulse that ours village, taken as an example in recent months and assignee of the lion’s share of the Next generation, will have to give to the consolidation of European institutions but also to their reform. Topics already touched upon in recent months and years by the Head of State, suffice it to recall the speech at the Sorbonne delivered in July and the August speech in Ventotene.
There pandemic, which brought out all the sense of duty, responsibility and cohesion of the Italian people, also made it clear on the international level how crises can be overcome only united. A lesson that Europe will have to make its own concretely not only in words when in the coming months it will have to conclude the conference on the future of the EU, reform the Stability Pact and give a new face to the common foreign and defense policy.
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