The has arrived 25th April. Italy, today, remembers the 78th Anniversary of Liberation from Nazi fascism. Quiet them inevitable political controversy near the festival, the town is ready for demonstrations and events throughout the territory.
On the eve of the holiday, the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, during a meeting with a representation of the fighting and weapon associations, praised the "commitment and determination" of the associations "to keep alive the memory of one of the most dramatic periods in our history contributing to a large extent to make known and not forgotten how many fought to defend the ideals of independence and freedom that allowed Italy to be liberated from Nazi-fascist oppression”.
Le celebrations will open as per tradition at 9,00 with a visit to theAltar of the Fatherland of the head of state who will place a laurel wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. First time as prime minister for Giorgia Meloni who will participate in the event with the president of the Senate Ignazio La Russa and that of the House Lorenzo Fontana. No other events scheduled for the president during the day. Instead, here are the events and what the main politicians will do during the day.
Mattarella in Cuneo, Borgo San Dalmazzo and Boves
Il president Mattarella it will not stop at the commemorations at the Altare della Patria. To follow, accompanied by the Minister of Defense Guido Crosetto, yes will bring to Cuneo, Gold Medal of the Resistance, Borgo San Dalmazzo and Boves. The arrival of the president is scheduled for 11 with the passage to the Parco della Resistenza to lay a wreath at the monument in memory of the fallen and the visit to the Museo Casa di Duccio Galimberti, the partisan lawyer and hero of the city. Solemn ceremony to be held at Toselli theater in Cuneo with the civil and military institutional authorities and the 247 mayors of the province. Expected the live on Raiuno at 12. In the second part of the day the President will be busy at 15,30 pm in Borgo San Dalmazzo for a visit to Memo 4345, the Deportation Memorial and then to Boves, 80 years after the massacre of 19 September 1943 during of which 23 civilians died and hundreds of houses were set on fire.
La Russa visits Prague
The President of the Senate has chosen to celebrate April 25 by going abroad. After the morning visit to the Altare della Patria, La Russa will leave for the Czech Republic to participate in the meeting of the presidents of the parliaments of the member countries of the European Union. At 15 pm you will participate in the commemoration, with the laying of a wreath, at the Jan Palach monument in Wenceslas Square. A visit to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in Prague.
National procession in Milan, Schlein present
It's at Milano, symbolic city and Gold Medal of the Resistance, the most awaited event of the day. In the afternoon of the 25th, there will be the big one national parade which will pass through the city centre. The secretary of the Pd will be at the demonstration, organized by the Anpi, the National Association of Partisans of Italy Elly Schlein which will parade behind the banner "Born of the Resistance", a slogan chosen by the party with the aim of calling "the government to responsibility towards the resistance and memory". The procession will start at 14 pm from Corso Venezia and then parade towards the Duomo, passing through San Babila, Matteotti, Meda, Catena, Mattioli, Case Rotta, Scala, Santa Margherita and Mengoni. The president of Anpi Milano will intervene in Piazza Duomo, Roberto Cenatithe national one Gianfranco Pagliarulo, the mayor of Milan, Giuseppe Sala, the secretary of the CISL Luigi Barra, Maria Pia Garavaglia, president of the National Association of Christian Partisans, Dario Venegoni, national president Aned. The partisan will be in connection Aldo Tortorella while on stage will be present Farida Elashwal Rodriguez, a young student from an Italian citizen of an Egyptian family.
Milan was also chosen by right-wing politicians, largely absent from the demonstrations. There will be the Minister of Education Joseph Vallettara who will be present in the morning at the laying of wreaths in front of some symbolic places of the Milanese Resistance. Forza Italia exponents will also be present at the commemorations in the city.
Where will the other party leaders be
A Roma, procession of the Anpi (beginning at 10), which will travel through the streets and symbolic places of the Resistance in the capital up to the arrival at Porta San Paolo, the symbolic place of the beginning of the War of Liberation. He will participate in the parade Carlo Calenda, action leaders and exponents of the Greens and the Left. From the stage of San Paolo, in addition to the testimonies of some partisans, the mayor of Rome will intervene, Roberto Gualtieri, and the secretary of the CGIL, Maurizio Landini.
The leader of the League Matteo Salvini will be in Brianza, in one of the stages of the electoral campaign. Giuseppe Conte, leader of the Five Star Movement, will instead be in via Tasso in Rome, at the historical museum of the Liberation as he declared: "This year on 25 April I will be in Via Tasso, at the historical museum of the Liberation, which is a place important for the collective memory, which was used as a prison and bears witness to the violence suffered by our resistants". Commemoration at the Fosse Ardeatine for the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Antonio Tajani, because "I represent the government and it is right to pay homage to the martyrdom of so many heroes, victims of the Nazi-fascist fury" he explains in an interview with La Stampa, trying to explain the controversies linked to the government's positions on anti-fascism.
Other demonstrations and events will take place in the main Italian cities including Bologna, Naples, Florence, Modena, Turin, Verona, Alessandria and Bari.
Meloni al Corriere: "Right incompatible with the nostalgia of fascism"
After days of controversy over Fdi's position, fueled by the President of the Senate Ignazio La Russa, according to whom "anti-fascism is not in the Constitution", the Premier throws water on the fire by entrusting her reflections on April 25 to a letter sent to Corriere della Sera. On April 25, let it be “un moment of renewed national harmony in which the celebration of our newfound freedom helps us to understand and strengthen Italy's role in the world as an essential bulwark of democracy”, says Meloni.
“For many years, the parties representing the right in Parliament have declared their iincompatibility with any nostalgia for fascism“, he observes. The “fundamental fruit of April 25th was, and undoubtedly remains, the affirmation of the democratic values, that fascism had trampled and that we find engraved in the Republican Constitution”, continues the Prime Minister, assuring that these are thoughts that come from those who “saw them fully mature within the ranks of their political party now 30 years ago, without ever move away from it in the long years of political and institutional commitment".
