Francesco Cossiga "in his inauguration speech had taken ordinary people as a point of reference to weld past and future, hoping for a new solidarity" for values that are not only personal but above all community ". To have civil hope - he said -" we need a social justice that is not descended from above but shared and produced by citizens ". Adding that" development does not translate into civil hope if it is not combined with the ability to solve the two great problems of our national life: unemployment and 'backwardness of the southern areas ".
Far-sighted words of an Italian who served the country with all the strength he was capable of and whose memory today, ten years after his death, we honor the memory ". President Sergio Mattarella said this speaking at the University of Sassari on the occasion of the 10 years since the death of Francesco Cossiga.
"Cossiga faced the terrorist attack on the Republic and defended the democratic institutions with the consent of the Parliament, respecting the rule of law and trying to preserve, as an indispensable good, the unity of democratic forces in the fight against terror and subversion. The recourse to new norms and instruments always remained inscribed in the wake of the defense of values and constitutional order. And the contrast to the insurrectionalist vulgate, as well as to the unacceptable equidistant preaching of advocates of "neither with the State, nor with the BR", it was on Cossiga's part that was always clear and free from hypocrisy and opportunism ", said President Mattarella.
"The kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro, with the massacre of the escort men, was a tremendous blow and a watershed in the life of Francesco Cossiga. As it was a watershed in the history of the Republic. Minister Cossiga worked for the liberation of Moro, his friend and political point of reference, but the efforts did not reach the desired result and the suffering was exacerbated by the succession of letters of which he recognized traits of authenticity. When he found the body of the murdered statesman he carried out his intention to resignation, "assuming full political responsibility for the work of the dicastery", said the president Sergio Mattarella speaking at the University of Sassari on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the death of Francesco Cossiga in a long memory of the political activity of the late president of Republic.
