"The sense of responsibility requires me not to shirk and prevails over my ideas and even my private life".
These are the first words of president Sergio Mattarella a few minutes after his re-election.
A very brief speech full of meaning and which does not evade the questions that have marked these weeks, at times holding back the parties in reproposing his name.
that is, his repeated "no" to re-election.
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He speaks of duty, of ongoing emergencies and of the need to "interpret" the needs of citizens that have sensationally emerged through the thrust of Parliament that has overwhelmed the parties unable to express an alternative name. Perhaps this is why the head of state began by thanking Parliament and the delegates of the regions for the "trust" expressed in him. But the heart of his very brief speech to the Italians is based on a premise: "The difficult days that passed for the election of the presidency of the Republic during the great emergency that we are still going through on the health, economic and social sides call to mind sense of responsibility and respect for Parliament's decisions ".
Serious emergencies and, above all, still ongoing which are associated with the need not to slow down the growth of the country while the funds from the NRP are arriving.
Non-negligible pressures which in all probability would have also invested the executive and threatened the early end of the legislature.
This is why the president, after a deep reflection, decided not to persist in his denial.
The call of Parliament is thus transformed into a duty for a man of institutions like Mattarella: "these conditions require not shirking the duties to which one is called and of course they must prevail over other considerations and different personal perspectives, with the commitment to interpret the expectations and hopes of our fellow citizens "