Saturday, May 21, 2016

Pannella, the last secular greeting: tears and applause. Bonino: “Some gifts stink of hypocrisy” – The Republic

Rome – Rome greets Marco Pannella, the Radical leader who died on May 19 in the capital. The secular ceremony in Piazza Navona, public greetings of the city and politics, began in the early afternoon. Tears and applause greeted the coffin, accompanied by hundreds of people in the square where they sounded the notes of Mozart’s Requiem and where stands a picture of Pannella that ‘tells’ “just.” All together the friends Pannella, Emma Bonino Sergio D’Elia, Rita Bernardini his partner Mirella Parachini. Among the many wreaths, there is also the minister of the crown of Justice Andrea Orlando, expected at the ceremony. Among the people even the minister Marianna Madia to pay homage to the radical leader.

Flowers and greetings. a ‘flowered’ stage from crowns was set up to bid farewell to the radical leader of institutions, but not only. It affects that of prisoners of Rebibbia, given the many battles of Marco Pannella and the Radicals for the rights of prisoners. Many interventions in the program. On stage it was also up the mayoral candidate of the Democratic Party, Roberto Giachetti. Then it happened to Rita Bernardini, who recalled how right in Piazza Navona were held big demonstrations of the struggles of Pannella and the Radicals: “We can not give up his fight. It will be difficult to be up to it, but we will try, with our bodies and non-violence, “he said. Then, on the giant screen, the images that sum up Pannella’s political life.

Bonino: “Some gifts stink of hypocrisy.” Acclaimed by those present, Emma Bonino spoke from the stage and took off a few pebbles from shoes: Marco Pannella, he said, “was particularly derided, mocked, scorned, and when you do not think that some stink posthumous tributes of hypocrisy from a mile away. ” But former Foreign Minister leaves the door open to those who have changed their minds: “Welcome if you’ve changed their minds, but the best way to honor him is to pay more attention to the battles he had and we have going.” He recalled the commitment of the companion of many battles within the Radical Party: “Today you have known better Pannella. Marco was the battle for divorce and abortion. This, but also much more,” he said, quoting the battle for Yugoslavias wars. Then, the youngest, said: “in the 80s, the years of Milan ‘drink’ we fought against the explosion of public debt, because it would fall on you”

Finally, He stressed that for Pannella was politics: “joyful commitment not as business or as martyrdom, politics as a choice of engagement”. It made me continue to fight for realizing the dream of Pannella of the United States of Europe. jazz Music. To accompany the interventions, the music of the Jazz Band of Carletto Loffredo, who was present in the years to all the manifestations of the Radical Party. That’s why it was chosen for a final farewell to the leader passed away.

On stage inmates Rebibbia. In the square, a delegation of detainees in the Roman prison, asked to go with the others on stage. “We would like to be like you, to have another chance,” said one of the inmates talking to the audience, waving affectionately Pannella and thanking her commitment to them.

Subscriptions realtime . The Secretary for Justice, Gennaro Migliore, and of the Democratic Party announced that he joined the Radical Party, and the announcement has done so on the stage in Piazza Navona. Always offstage, Best has connected and paying with Paypal joined realtime with the Radicals.

In line up for the farewell . The corpse in the House yesterday was placed in the Sala Aldo Moro, and there was a long line all afternoon with the presence of leaders of the Radicals. Then for the night vigil was brought into the headquarters of the Radicals in via Torre Argentina 76, from where a procession to Piazza Navona. From one Sunday night until 15 pm at the funeral home town of Teramo. At 16 burial in the town cemetery where Pannella was born.

the tribute Wp and NYT : “Champion civil liberties “. Even the major US newspapers have paid tribute to Marco Pannella. If the Washington Post called it “a radical political maverick crucial in Italy’s post-war campaigns to legalize abortion, divorce and other social challenges”, the NYT has devoted a large portrait showing her in the title role of “Italian champion civil liberties.” Both newspapers remind his many battles and emphasize the singular relations with the Vatican, marked by opposing positions on various issues, but also by a sincere respect and appreciation for his selfless struggle.

memories. They continue, in the meantime, after those on the social, the manifestations of grief and the memories of ordinary people and the world of politics. “Remember Marco Pannella is right since we are collecting signatures for a referendum. We are all a bit ‘more sad: we will miss his contribution, also critical, and its ability to raise issues ahead of the times, pioneering, in our country, “said Minister for reforms Maria Elena Boschi , in Reggio Emilia for a convention.

Even the candidate of Frateli of Italy for the ride to the Capitol, Giorgia Meloni , is dedicating a thought to Pannella, dottolineando his freedom: “Pannella had not masters. a person who has always said what he thought and who has never had to answer to anyone who was not himself and the people who followed him. a person who has never sent word that has never been afraid to say things as they were. from this point of view I consider him, I’d say like me, but definitely a landmark , despite not having shared 80% of the things that Pannella said. But I shared the freedom with which he said, I consider it unfortunately a very rare thing in today’s politics then Italy loses definitely a free voice. “

the music rom to bid farewell to Teramo . There will gypsy music to greet Marco Pannella, during the ceremony in Abruzzo. Alexian Santino Spinelli, musician, composer and teacher of Romany culture at the University of Chieti, Sunday, as was the desire of the radical leader, will give a final farewell friend Marco, playing for him. “Pannella and I were bound by genuine friendship. A bond – tells Spinelli – which also stemmed from its ability to give voice to those who had not. He left told friends that he wanted to be greeted with our music that he liked much”. The musician Roma and Pannella had known each other a long time.

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