Garbage bags and a few truncheons fly into the streets bordering via Castiglione, in Bologna, where this morning Giorgio Napolitano gave his speech as a new doctor in political science "On the difficulties of ppolitics in Europe and in Italy". The outraged took to the streets to protest against the awarding of an honorary degree to the President of the Republic.
"I warn - said the Head of State - against the dangerousness of reactions, to any legislative provision, which go far beyond requests for listening and discussion and even protests in compliance with the law, to lead to rebellion and forcing and unacceptable violence". Beyond partisan interests, errors, populist tendencies that cross all of Europe, Napolitano calls for a common effort to take a higher look and, quoting the political scientist Sartori several times, defends the role of parties, which "may experience periods of involution and decadence, but the only road that remains open is that of their self-renewal. I would like to say this especially to young people. Between rejecting parties and rejecting politics, the step is not long and it is fatal, because it leads to the end of democracy and freedom".
Napolitano pays homage to the nobility of politics and cites two great personalities as an example: Nino Andreatta and Paolo Bufalini, who were deployed on opposite sides, Christian Democracy and the Communist Party, but were also supporters, both, of the pro-European choice and of the Atlantic choice . During his two days in Bologna Napolitano will once again pay homage to Andreatta. At 16,30 today, in fact, he is expected at the Foundation for Religious Sciences where a plaque will be unveiled in memory of the statesman, engraved with a phrase dear to Andreatta: "The truth, nothing more subversive".
