Mattarella says breath of freedom is right of opposition
Constitution guarantee of citizens' rights says pres in Trieste
President Sergio Mattarella on
Wednesday said the breath of freedom is the right of opposition.
"Speaking in Turin, at the first edition of the Democracy
Biennial, in 2009, the President of the Republic, Giorgio
Napolitano, turned his gaze to the construction of our
republican democracy, with the acquisition of the principles
that have placed our country, since then, in the furrow of
western liberal-democratic thought," Mattarella said, speaking
at the Social Week of Catholics in Italy being held in Trieste.
"After the obsessive constraint of the fascist regime, the
breath of freedom blew, with the Constitution as the framework
and guarantee of citizens' rights.
"The breath of freedom first and foremost as a rejection of any
obligation of social and political conformity, as the right to
opposition."
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