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The text of the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella at the ceremony for the 71 th anniversary of the Liberation which was held in Varallo.
“I extend greetings to all those present, to the people of Valsesia, the mayor of Varallo and all the mayors, the President of the Union Montana, the President of the Piedmont Region, the present authorities, parliamentarians, the speakers this morning who I thank for their consideration, including the President of the PNA, the son of the Mayor of the liberation of this city.
a special greeting to the children and young people who are here with us today: it is above all them this day of celebration I am pleased to celebrate throughout Italy, here in this city and in this beautiful valley.
the festival Freedom , the Liberation day.
of day that saw Sandro Pertini announce, by Radio Free Milano, the end of the war, the recovery of national unity, the start of a new democratic path.
Freedom that was born here, these mountains, with the first “free zone”, ring the partisan republics that have marked the will of the Italian people ransom; real roots of the choice that the vote of 2 June 1946 would have sanctioned.
Let us remember, in this 2016, seventy years after the institutional referendum in which Italians and Italian – the latter for the first time to vote – were called to decide between monarchy and republic.
it is a thread that marks the bond between the Resistance , the new democratic Italy character and republican system.
it’s on 25 April, on this date, which is based, first of all, our Republic .
it is in the path, difficult and demanding, ranging from 8 September 1943 to the liberation that we find the reasons for the upturn of Italy.
a ‘ Italy divided between the Southern Kingdom and the Badoglio government, the allied administration in the South, the Third Reich that occupied, starting from Naples, the rest d’ Italy, even annexing Alto Adige, Friuli and Venezia Giulia, Istria and Dalmatia, until the unfortunate adventure of Salo.
An Italy that had lost the drive, so hard-won through wars of independence.
An Italy that had seen fade its independence.
An Italy devastated by war in its materials rubble and scarred by decades of fascist dictatorship in its moral rubble, with the loss first of all, freedom.
Against all this rose the clear conscience of our country: patriots antifascists who had never stopped believing in a better future; military left to themselves after the armistice, who defended the honor and honored homeland with sacrifice, sometimes with real heroism; women and men, in the cities and in the countryside, who had never stopped believing that every person must be respected and that dignity can never be violated or for reasons of race, or of religion reasons or for reasons of thought, or for reasons of gender, or for reasons of social status.
There – from their beliefs and their behavior – it was born the republic.
from the need to transfuse the authentic spirit of the law of the country Status .
of renew the idea of Italy, so outraged, to the feelings of his people.
to give meaning to the condition of citizenship, as a form of civic and democratic integration, in switching from “subjects” to “citizens.”
the June 2, 1946 became the conclusion of a journey and, at the same time, a starting point.
the starting point for the development of that confrontation that would later led, a year and a half later, the Constitution, with its personalist values and solidarity.
Conclusion of a path, linked to the idea of Mazzini, in the Risorgimento (and shared by Gioberti), a national pact dictated by a Constituent Assembly, which is essential for the new united Italy.
a path of constitutional transition finally took place after 25 July 1943 and was formalized in the agreement between the Committee National Liberation and the Crown, in January 1944, after the Bari Congress of anti-fascist forces and the declaration by Vincenzo Arangio-Ruiz: “the covenant between the king and the people has lost its vigor and worth, however, the principle that all powers come from the people to return to the people. “
the population, exhausted by fascism and its wars, looked for some time beyond the conflict, to confirm that the divorce between the regime and the nation.
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