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“I recently subjected to the routine medical checks but they have shown the presence of a tumor in the left lung. It is a localized form and still asymptomatic, but nevertheless require a long and complex treatment of chemotherapy that has already been initiated and that will last at least 6 months. Are not willing to stop my political activities, because you can not resign from their passions, but these activities must be organized according to the medical needs that you need to give at this moment a top priority, which is not easy for me. ” Are the words with which, by Radical Radio, Emma Bonino yesterday announced to the world his illness. A revelation which was followed by a wave of solidarity over political banners.
Of course, in the face of arguments so distressing is impossible not to be moved by piety. But in the case of Bonino, there is something beyond. And that, in a sense, it even seems inexplicable. After all, the battles of Emma during his forty years of political experience, are the most divisive you can imagine. A case for everyone, the most emblematic: the help he gave the radical leader since the 70s of thousands of women who wanted an abortion when abortion, in Italy, was still a crime. Behavior, that of Bonino, who moved the trial to the sympathies always a part of the public and that, probably, also helped to clear his chances of climbing to the Quirinal whenever his name was approached to chair more High of the Republic.
If today, despite the many battles controversial, Emma collects solidarity and emotion of much of the public, is mainly because no one can doubt his courage and his loyalty. Doti, alas, increasingly rare in today’s politicians.
The courage Bonino has shown putting his face in every battle. Even when it meant jeopardizing his personal freedom. Since 1975, when it surrendered just for the crime of procured abortion. Or in 1987, when expressed in Warsaw against the communist dictatorship of General Jaruzelski and was arrested before being expelled from Poland. Or again in November 1990, when denouncing the US law requiring a prescription to the sale of syringes, you had him arrested in New York while distributing clean needles.
The loyalty, however, is all in his decades-long and special relationship with Marco Pannella, the historic leader of the Radicals and his” Siamese twin “in politics. A loyalty that has exceeded even the years when political differences seemed irreconcilable: “For the sake of generation and also of sexual tastes different there is ever feel attracted – said Emma once Marco – this does not exclude that, in a way ours, it is love. Indeed more so, because the loves pass, Marco remains. ” And it is a joke mocking if today Bonino is to fight against the same evil, lung cancer, which afflicts Panella. US politics, also joined in the disease.
States, it can be said rewinding the tape of history, even in the mea culpa. Because Emma and Mark have never lacked consistency, but were also able to admit mistakes and apologize. Were the Radicals, in 1978, to contribute a tough campaign by the resignation of John Leone Quirinale. And they were always, twenty years later, to publicly rehabilitate the old President of the Republic on the occasion of his 90th birthday.
It is clear that hardly a tumor can break the resistance of such a woman. “The right man,” as labeled them same friends radicals in 1999, when for the first time his name resorted among those vying for the role of head of state. Emma Bonino will not give up, and not just because driven by the wave of affection that led yesterday the hashtag #forzaemma among the trending topic in Twitter. But also because the disease itself is a battle to fight. Not for herself, but also for others. “To all those who in Italy and elsewhere face this or other evidence – his words to Radio Radicale, broken by tears – I just want to say that we should all strive to be, and people want to live free until the end. In short, I am not my cancer and you’re not even your illness, we just think that we are people who face a challenge that has happened. “
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