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This article was published on 15 January 2015 to 06:36 hours.
NEW LIFE
From senator goes to the mixed group and follow the reforms. Day between emotion and serenity, behind the tensions for the interrogation to Colle
“It’s over, let’s go.” He has just returned Donato Marra after delivery of the letters of resignation, Giorgio Napolitano is in his studio with his closest aides and his wife Clio who joined them recently. Are the first words he speaks to former president, immediately after leaving the room to move towards the courtyard of the Quirinale where it will receive full military honors. It was 10.35 yesterday morning when Giorgio Napolitano signed his letter of resignation, and for the first time the video of that moment is published on the website of the Hill. A personal act, which does not need to be countersigned, unique among those of the Constitution together with grace.
The letter is in three copies that will deliver the Secretary of the Quirinale Donato Marra to the leading authorities: chairmen of the House and Senate, President of the Council. Delivery triggers the formal procedure following the resignation. “I communicate that today I have resigned my resignation from the post of President of the Republic, by me taken April 22, 2013,” to read Laura Boldrini in the Hall of the House follows a long applause while Pietro Grasso, received a letter, becomes now deputy chairman. Leaves the Senate on foot to get to his new studio in Palazzo Giustiniani, along the way he says only a few words. “The House I will miss, I say this as an emotional point of view. I hope to return soon, “says Grasso which is actually among the candidates at the Quirinale.
Meanwhile, the guard of honor at the Quirinale is paying tribute to Giorgio Napolitano, just after the former president will greet one by one his closest collaborators in the courtyard, then gets in his car with his wife Clio to return to his private home in the Monti district. Outside the Palace many students and journalists, citizens, but also a small crowd gathers under his house. “Bravo, bravo” and “welcome back” the cry of the people of the district, he nods hat and finally enters the door, and in his new life. Not as a simple citizen, though. Go back to what it was before, a senator for life, and will immediately begin its activity probably by subscribing to the mixed group and commissions Foreign and following in the first line the path of institutional reforms in the Senate.
While Napolitano left the Quirinale, met the Council of Ministers, by Renzi came words of “gratitude and emotion,” and with the CDM has started the process that triggers the 15 days within which gather the Chambers in joint session. So the first vote will be January 29 to 15.
Napolitano will participate in the voting on his successor and has not failed yesterday to repeat his collaborators as keen to see – this time – proof positive of Parliament and forces policies. Were a few seconds of emotion the head of state, perhaps when he says, “it’s over, let’s go,” maybe when you got in the car. Distant now also the latest tensions interrogation at Colle on negotiation state-mafia. Arrived in his home was noted more relief than sadness. While waiting for the return of the Quirinale Marra had read the messages arrived from the Pope and the French president Hollande. ‘Estimates for exemplary service, “is the message that is delivered by the Pontiff from Sri Lanka. “You’re a friend of France. And France is proud to have a friend like you. ” Estimation Angela Merkel also speaks through his spokesman that does get his greeting. “It was a party held in high regard by the German govern ment.” And particularly pleasing was also the message of the President of the Federal Republic of Germany Joachim Gauck who sent him a telegram thanking “wholeheartedly for his tireless commitment to the European design and understanding between Italy and Germany.”
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