When they elected me to the Quirinale "I was worried because I knew how demanding the task was. But two things helped me: I have excellent collaborators but above all the fact that
in Italy according to the Constitution there is not a single body that decides but decisions are distributed among many organs.
The President of the Republic must know everyone, follow everyone in order to be able to intervene with suggestions.
But in eight months my term as president ends. I am old in a few months I will be able to rest
", said the President of the Republic
Sergio Mattarella
talking to
pupils of a primary school in Rome
.
THE INTERVENTION
Then answering some questions, the Head of State said that "
the most important law is the Constitution which contains many indications:
Article 2 speaks of inviolable rights; immediately after Article 3
indicates the value of equality and this is the main right
. We are all equal before the law, whatever the color of the skin, the ethnic group, we are all the same. There is one thing that reminded us of the pandemic, with everyone forced to wear masks:
we are all equal, this is the foundation of rights, the equality of citizens ".
"Helping each other is very important, it applies everywhere, it is valid in a large country like Italy. If you help each other, you live better, you feel better". But "you forget this when you grow up", Mattarella added. "Living together means that everyone needs the others and therefore helping each other makes everyone's life better. This is probably the most important thing. We are going through a very serious experience, that of the pandemic which - added Mattarella - forces us to have masks. In this year we learned once again that we depend on each other. We needed doctors, nurses, people who keep working at the grocery store, and helping others ultimately means helping yourself.When we help ourselves, not only the person being helped but also the one who helps are benefited. Sometimes when you grow up this is forgotten and you don't help yourself enough and you live worse. What do you want at home, at school? Harmony, serenity, get along? - the president then rhetorically asked -. Here this is what must be done by children and adults. Helping each other is the most important thing that holds together and makes us live better ".Helping each other is the most important thing that holds together and makes us live better ".Helping each other is the most important thing that holds together and makes us live better ".
"Being here in this school made me think and I want to emphasize one thing:
I was thinking about how important it is to have reopened schools, all schools, and to be here to underline the resumption of normal life in Italy
", said President Mattarella again. on the occasion of the presentation of 'My diary', the school diary of the State Police in a Roman school.
