Republic Day took place in the squares throughout Romagna with institutional events and the involvement of the police, but also of many ordinary citizens, in many cases students involved in various projects.
The ceremony in Forlì was particularly significant, where the prefect Rinaldo Argentieri met the three Standard Bearers of the Republic, very deserving young people who distinguished themselves during the flood emergency: Valeria Frasca from Forlì and Abderrahim Ben Rhouma and Selim Ayach from Cesena. The theme of the disaster of a year ago also emerged in the show of the children of the Livio Tempesta della Cava elementary school, a hard-hit school. The new knights were Alessandro Albonetti (lieutenant of the Carabinieri of Forlimpopoli), Ermes Battistini, Davide Maggioli, Vito Massimiliano Alagna, Sergio Faedi, Lino Pasquariello, Alessandro Ricci, Ludovico Scalia, Maurizio Albano, Stefano Chironi, Cesare Magalotti and Domenico Tampieri.
In Cesena, the traditional concert with the musical band in the Public Gardens was canceled due to adverse weather forecasts which later turned out to be wrong. A decision that triggered the centre-right mayoral candidate’s attack against Lattuca: “Not having a plan B even for the Republic Day celebrations says a lot about the organizational capabilities of the Municipality – said Marco Casali –. Given that the Public Gardens I’m a stone’s throw from the Bonci, the concert at the theater could have been foreseen.
In Rimini the ceremony was held in Piazza Cavour with the passing by the armed picket. Saturday evening concert by the Mondaino Young Orchestra with greetings from the prefect Rosa Maria Padovano.
In Ravenna, after the flag raising at 10am followed by the reading of the message from the President of the Republic, the awarding of honours, in the presence of the three young Standard Bearers of the Republic awarded by Mattarella at the Quirinale last 13 May: Matteo Violani from Faenza, Letizia Galletti from Lugo and Guido Betti of Ravenna. Prefect Castrese De Rosa awarded twelve honors of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic to Arnaldo Agresta, Massimo Cavallone, Casimiro Franza, Eugenio Fusignani, Gianni Ghirardini, Cesare Giuliani, Stefano Pace, Federico Villa, Federico Mercati, Elena Zannoni, Anthony Manno , Giuseppe Palumbo. The stars of merit were also awarded to Patrizia Fiorini, Vittorio Melandri, Davide Ricci, Giampiero Sabbatani, Mauro Salvaori.
