Marco Taradash, remember when Pannella said to me: “We with the state against Br” – The Republic

Marco Taradash, born in 1950, journalist and politician, calls himself a “radical of the second hour.” And although in 1994 it passed to Forza Italy (today is Ncd), after almost twenty years of militancy in the Radical Party, he has always felt close to liberal political battles of Marco Pannella.
Taradash, what reminds Pannella’s political commitment?
“With him I shared many struggles for civil rights. She had wonderful energy: its commitment lasted from seven in the morning to midnight, why and political life for him were the same. the policy was not the quest for power but for solutions to affirm individual freedom and through these to create a more open and livable for everyone. it is identified with a political culture that demanded by the institutions what they said and to be criticized because they were not. and the common thread of all his action was steadfast hope in change. “
and what has the most hit of his personality?
“He was a person with whom it was very easy clash. He demanded a lot from himself and from others, was never satisfied. But he was a generous man. When I came out of Parliament, shortly after she offered to go back to the assigned printing for Radio Radicale even if I had broken with the party going to Forza Italy. I think he loved the people that have set themselves against him without pretense, that is, those who have never pretended to be other than what they were. “

Can you tell us an emblematic episode?
“Pannella was not one to anecdotes. But there is a fact that greatly impressed me. In ’78 I had arrived in Rome a few months and was admitted to a discussion on the attitude to be taken on the first lawsuit in Italy to the historical leaders of the Red Brigades. Adelaide Aglietta, at the time of radical militant, was raffled fact, after the rejection of nearly one hundred people, which popular juror. In the party he was discussing whether the Aglietta should accept. But Pannella was clear and uncompromising: he said that the question is not even posed and our duty was to stand on the side of the state and its institutions even though we will continually denounced the abuse and sometimes the horrors. But he had to take the chance that these institutions are riscattassero from their mistakes and so there was no doubt that the Aglietta were to participate in the process. This was a testimony of his high sense of institutions and rule of law will never forget. “

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