LUCCA. A Republic Day dedicated to young people. The ceremony celebrating “2 June” took place on Sunday morning, with the laying of a laurel wreath at the War Memorial in Piazza XX Settembre.
The celebrations continued in the courtyard of the “Vallisneri” scientific high school, where a military ceremony organized by the Carabinieri was held, with the raising of the flag accompanied by the national anthem, the reading of the message from the Head of State and the presentation of honors of Knight of Merit of the Italian Republic to the restaurateur Samuele Cosentino and to Giuseppe Andracchio, by the Prefect Giusy Scaduto.
After the ceremony, the event continued in the Vallisneri gym, where, among other things, the students had a dialogue with Professor Carla Andreozzi, representative of the Historical Institute of the Resistance, on the results of a survey conducted in schools on the meaning of the Republic from a historical and current point of view. The students of Isi Pertini, Isi of Barga and the Lucca historical center comprehensive institute then presented a trailer created in the context of the pilot project “1 Ciak – 2 Punti di Vista”, focused on the production of audiovisual products on the phenomenon relevant to “femicide”.
In his speech, Mayor Mario Pardini quoted and remembered the jurist and one of the founding fathers of the Constitution, Piero Calamandrei.
«We celebrated Republic Day at the Vallisneri scientific high school, together with the civil and military authorities, the fighting associations and the students – said Pardini – Seventy-eight years ago, on 2 June 1946, Italy chose the Republic. As a result, our Constitution was born, like a beacon emerging from the ruins of a dark age. It continues to remind us how much we have been able to turn on the light, which still guides citizens, administrators and governments today. In 1955, speaking to students in Milan, Piero Calamandrei said many important things, but in particular that “The Constitution is not a machine that once started continues on its own. The Constitution is a piece of paper, you drop it and it doesn’t move. For it to move, we need to put fuel back into it every day.” A responsibility that first of all concerns politics, which must commit itself to moderating that perennial opposition that distances people from voting and which has nothing to do with the lesson of June 2, 1946. Thirty-two years ago I too was a student, I graduated from Vallisneri. Today I spoke to young people through that memory. “One of the offenses committed against the Constitution is indifference to politics, political indifferentism, which is a disease of young people,” Calamandrei underlined again that day to the student audience. And, of course, this quote was not addressed to those who were present today to celebrate the Republic with us, to whom I thank. I simply say that Calamadrei’s words need to be repeated more often, because they speak of good practices that unite us as a people. Understanding its profound meaning is the greatest challenge both for administrators and for the new generations, who I hope and hope will become increasingly interested in public life.”
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