TORINO (ITALPRESS) – First the participation in the start of the celebrations for the centenary of the death of Piero Gobetti, then the visit to the editorial office of La Stampa. This morning was the Turinese morning of the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, who around 11 made his entrance to the Teatro Carignano for the inaugural ceremony dedicated to the Turinian and anti-fascist intellectual, who died on February 16, 1926 in Paris, after the serious squadron plague suffered a few months earlier in the Piedmontese capital. Subsequently, the head of the state made a private visit to the editorial staff of the Turin newspaper, for which the negotiations are under way. To welcome the arrival of the President of the Republic, in front of Carignano, were the governor of the Piedmont Region Alberto Cirio and the mayor of Turin Stefano Lo Russo, along with the Prefect Donato Cafagna.
During his intervention, Cirio said: “Among the privileges of making the president of the Region there is to be able to meet so many times the president of the Republic and this is why I want to represent all the gratitude of the Piedmont community for its constant presence, its affection, its closeness to the places but also to the people of our Piedmont. And also for his daily commitment to defending our beloved republican and anti-fascist Constitution.” An inheritance, that of Gobetti, that Governor Cirio wanted to bind also to the economic development of Piedmont. “I believe that we in Gobetti also owe much respect to the liberal and social thinking that has also permeated the economic growth of this region, what they then encoded in corporate social responsibility – he said – Men like Adriano Olivetti have realized it in everyday life, but also the Ferrero family and the three verbs to which the Knight of Labor Michele Ferrero inspired his activity: to work, create, donate. Because if you don’t work, you don’t create anything. If you create, you’ll have something to donate, but then you’ll have to be able to donate it and socialize what you’ve created. What is this if not the Gobetian thought applied and implemented in everyday life? ”.
During the event at the Teatro Carignano, the jurist and president of the National Committee for the celebrations of the centenary, Gustavo Zagrebelsky, held a lectio magistralis. At the end of the ceremony, he kept talking to President Mattarella for a few seconds. “He is Sicilian, but he has a style in which we Saudis recognize us easily, a sober style, without rhetoric, straight back as Gobetti would say. I told him that Turin was very grateful and honored with his presence,” commented Zagrebelsky. On the figure of Gobetti, however, Zagrebelsky added that his teachings were “study, rigour, commitment, no fear and above all no voltagabbanism”.
After the celebrations for the centenary of the death of Gobetti, Mattarella went to the headquarters of the newspaper La Stampa for a short greeting. A gesture of solidarity for the editorial staff, which had been assaulted on 28 November by a hundred protesters, who had put the premises to a close. The visit was scheduled for the last time that the head of the state had gone to Turin but then jumped to coincide with a daily strike. At the end of his visit, Mattarella, greeting the director Andrea Malaguti reiterated the “solidarity for the events of late November” and expressed his “appreciation for the newspaper” and “the wishes for the future”, emphasizing: “The newspapers are pillars of democracy, I recommend.” “We try to preserve it,” Malaguti’s response, which thanked the head of the state for visiting.
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