and logy “virtue of patience” in a democracy and does quoting the Italian politician who the most cultivated: Alcide De Gasperi. Patience, however, that there is simply translated as the ability to “be calm and remain calm,” because of “the exercise of hope.” I explained the same Trentino statesman in a speech in Brussels in 1948: “We have no right to despair of man, nor as an individual or as a collective, we have no right to despair of the story, because God works not only in the individual consciousness but also in the lives of peoples. ” Sergio Mattarella rooms in Pieve Tesino, the country’s Valsugana where De Gasperi was born, and celebrates “the vision and courage” of the great Catholic leader. A man who, after ‘drunken nationalistic fascist dictatorship “, was able to build with tenacity” a different idea of the Fatherland, “patriotism” genuine and heartfelt, not declaimed … truly European. ” A figure summarizing in itself also other “virtues specific policies.” That is, a civic profile (and moral) that, in many ways, made up the self-portrait to which he aspires: “Simplicity of life, sobriety in the gestures and speech, moral tension, the ability to listen.”
it is a passage that in the game of reflections between the past and present typical of every commemoration, can refer to today as well. Both for the part in which the head of state seems to urge the political class in different costumes, after a long season of vulgar exhibitionism, hysterical biases and sectarianism of fierce public debate. Both for that nod borrowed from De Gasperi to the “patience in the face of human slowness” – concept very mattarelliano – and lists among the key issues for the health of a democracy. Mind you: no indication to slow down the process of reform, no interference on the autumn referendum. Rather a warning about the risks of certain theories spread after the last British vote and seek to relativize the same value of popular sovereignty, suggesting that on particular subjects and themes (for example, those intended to have economic consequences, as with Brexit) the ordinary citizens can not choose. For Mattarella, however, “we have no right to despair” of the individual as such or in the community.
Here is the politically most current of lectio De Gasperi , current as part dedicated to Europe, which the statesman (author 70 years ago of the historic agreement with Gruber) remains a true noble father. “His concerns remain valid, particularly regarding Europe,” says the president. She knew him well, he adds, that European unity “is always an uphill, where the difficulties and narrow visions must oppose ideals and political factors.” And today, while the old continent is “in the grip of strong tensions”, without a memory of its founding reasons not you grasp the value. Because his “humanistic matrix is not only aesthetic and literary type, but civil”, and “in the heart active and effective idea of good and economic and social progress.” For Mattarella, in short, “guard of its authentic ambitions Europe can not exist.” In fact, syllable, “are not banks or business transactions that led to the European Union, but politicians and far-sighted men parliaments; They are not the financial crisis that will destroy it, but only our shortsightedness in not recognizing the common good “. So, the job of politicians for the future is’ foresight, not rearguard, not the frantic pursuit of unexpected challenges … an intelligence task, not of approaching or superficiality. In a word: a great task. “
And here Mattarella explores a flap” usually eclipsed in journalism “of De Gasperi’s political biography. It was when he assumed the functions of head of state, from 13 at the end of June 1946. They were the days of the vote between monarchy and Republic and the statesman of the Valsugana, aware of the hesitation of the House of Savoy and the monarchist groups protests, had known the king had prepared a speech to the nation as to throw “an ominous light on the referendum.” Italy was poised and in Naples were already bloody clashes occurred. In the night between 12 and 13 De Gasperi broke through the inertia and assumed the difficult responsibility. It was a very brief presidency, marked by extraordinary acts (such as the decree on amnesty proposed by Togliatti). Then, after 18 days, passed his hand and you could really say that the Republic was born.
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