LONDRA (UKREGNO) (ITALPRESS) – The podcast of the Chamber of Deputies “The days of the Constituents”, arrives at the Italian Institute of Culture in London. Presented by the director Francesco Bongarrà, the Deputy Secretary General of Montecitorio Claudia Di Andrea and Valeria Gigliello, Chief Councillor of Montecitorio, presented in the British capital the audio project that tells the contribution of twenty-one women elected to the Constituent Assembly in the construction of Italian democracy.
Professor Marzia Maccaferri of the University Queen Mary of London gave Belgrave Square a historical picture of the “first time” to the vote for Italian women, exactly eighty years ago, while the two officials of Montecitorio told, with anecdotes and historical references, the contribution of the 21 women who were elected to the Constituent Assembly in the drafting of our Constitution.
The presentation ideally followed and completed the series of four workshops organized by the Italian Institute of Culture directed by Bongarrà to SIAL, the Italian school in London, in March last. Meetings in which students of the elementary and media school who explored the role of these women in the Italian post-war society through history, debate and reflections. At the centre of the meeting, the theme of representation: from the right of vote conquered by Italian women to their presence in the contemporary institutional and cultural life, questioning themselves on the challenges still open for European democracies.
The initiative thus wants to propose a living memory, not celebratory but active, in which the story of women who contributed to the writing of the Italian Constitution can become an instrument to read the present and imagine the future. An evening dedicated to the voices that contributed to the writing of Italian democracy and that still continue to speak to contemporary Europe.
The Constituents, said Di Andrea, “are figures lived in another era, but what they have said and done in the Hall and in the Commissions of Palazzo Montecitorio and that it was at the base of our Constitution is very current, as current are the rights that are protected in our Charter. The Deputy Secretary General of Montecitorio, where the Constituent Assembly gathered and where the acts were kept, then stressed the value of the presentation in London of the House initiative. “That voices are not only Italian, but they have a European breath.”.
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