ROMA (ITALPRESS) – “John Amendola died a hundred years ago in France due to the consequences of an ambush of fascist assassins. The Republic recalls it as one of the most prestigious exponents who knew how to oppose – paying in person – the authoritarian involution of the institutions, with its demanding idea of liberalism based on the defence of Parliament and the division of powers, adversing every form of political violence, the enemy of free expression of the will and popular sovereignty.” Thus the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, on the occasion of the centenary of the death of Giovanni Amendola.
“Intellectual end and passionate, prestigious journalist, MP and authoritative minister, Amendola was one of the highest expressions of that liberal anti-fascism that tried, without success, to save the country the torsion of totalitarianism – adds the Head of State –. Amendola was promoter of the Aventine: after the crime Matteotti fought with all his energies to raise public opinion against the Mussolini government, responsible for the murder, but the aggressions of the ‘black shots’ reserved to him the same fate as Matteotti. With his writings he contributed to the renewal of Italian culture in the early twentieth century. Meridionalist learned and at the same time concrete, he warned in advance the crisis of the liberal state and tried to strengthen the democratic character of the political system, appealing for a public ethics of responsibilities, on the other hand towards a consolidation of the representative institutions. He belonged to a European vision, even to the dawn of what was most accomplished in the Second World War. The anniversary of the centenary, today, allows to grasp ideal roots and threads of continuity between the battle for freedom and democracy of the early 1920s and the rule of law, the pluralism of institutions and society that took shape with the Republic”, concludes Sergio Mattarella.
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(ITALPRESS).
