Parades for peace, in Rome, Conte's halt on the dispatch of weapons

The procession of the demonstration for peace in Rome started from Piazza della Repubblica and reached Piazza San Giovanni.

At the opening, the Europe for Peace banner brought by scouts and young people from the Community of Sant'Egidio to follow the representatives of the promoting organizations and representatives of the institutions (mayors, banners, presidents of regions and provinces).

The procession unfolded through via Terme di Diocleziano, via Cavour, piazza Esquilino, via Merulana and then arrived, after crossing via Manzoni, in piazza di Porta di San Giovanni.

Lots of rainbow flags and banners.

In front of the basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli one was exhibited with the word "Peace" declined in ten languages.

The Europe for Peace procession will reach Piazza San Giovanni.

"

" is the figure communicated by the organizers of the Capitoline event.

The event ended on the notes of Bella Ciao.

According to the police headquarters, the participants are 30 thousand.

Among the political leaders, in the square the president of the M5s

, who sends a warning to the government: "To Crosetto I say that since a resolution has been voted in Parliament, he does not dare to decide on a new arms shipment without a confrontation in Parliament ".

The secretary of the Democratic Party,

, also spoke on the subject : "On the new decree for sending weapons to Ukraine", when the government presents a proposal, we will examine it.

We have always said that we will work in continuity with those who have done so and in line with the European and international alliances to which we are part "." We are at ease in a square that asks for peace - adds Letta - and for us

.

This is the central point, the end of the invasion of Russia. "During the demonstration, some participants objected to the secretary dem:" Warmonger, pro-American, go home ".

At the Roman demonstration also the exponent of Italia Viva

: "I do not leave peace in the hands of Conte and the equidistant 'pacifists'. Two weeks ago I went to show solidarity with the Ukrainian embassy, ​​then I went to the demonstration in favor of 'Ukraine under the Russian embassy and for this reason I am at the demonstration today having made it clear that for me there is an invader, Russia and victims, the Ukrainians. And that there is no peace without the withdrawal of the Russians ".

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'Crosetto does not dare to send weapons without Parliament' (ANSA)

Zuppi: peace is missing like the air

"Free together from war! Dear friend, I am happy that you are setting out for peace, whatever your age and condition, allow me to call you".

Thus begins the

read in Piazza San Giovanni during the demonstration for peace.

"I give you the tu because as brothers we are frightened by a violent and warrior world and for this we cannot remain still. How many die dramatically because of the war. The dead are not statistics but people. There is no time to waste because time means more deaths, "he said.

"We want to say that peace is indispensable, because it is like air and in recent months there is a lot of it missing. The deaths are already too many to not understand and if it continues it will not always be worse? Whoever fights for peace is a realist, indeed a true realist, because he knows that there is no future if not together ", he continued and concluded by affirming:" Pope Francis with great insistence asked to stop the war, we ask the president of the Russian federation to stop,

also for the love of his people, this spiral of violence.

And we ask the President of Ukraine to be open to serious peace proposals ".

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In Rome in the square a flag of Peace 50 meters long - Primopiano

Initiative of the Perugia Assisi March Committee, one of the promoters of the Europe for Peace event (ANSA)

THE SQUARE OF MILAN

To answer to Conte, from the Lombard capital, is the leader of Action

, attending the demonstration for peace together with Italia viva.

"There is a definition for Giuseppe Conte: it is called indifference, and in Italian culture indifference is on the right, it has nothing to do with the left", says Calenda, "Conte was with Salvini when he was a Putinist, he is pro- Trumpiano, he signed the Silk Road with the Chinese and then decided that he is progressive. Now he has decided that he is a pacifist, tomorrow he will decide that he is a communist and in four days he will become a nationalist ".

"I do not want to argue with other squares, it is absurd to do it as Giuseppe Conte did this morning. But I think I have to say that there is no peace without justice", the comment from the leader of Italia Viva

.

Handshake Moratti-Cottarelli

Recently arrived at the demonstration for the Ukrainian people organized by the Terzo Polo in Milan,

- now former vice president of the Lombardy Region - greeted various exponents of Action and Italia Viva such as Mara Carfagna and Mariastella Gelmini and then he

shook hands with a smile to the economist

, a possible candidate of the center-left in Lombardy that Carlo Calenda hypothesized yesterday in a ticket with Moratti himself.

Cottarelli: no one has called me yet

"I am not yet a candidate, I have given my availability and I have said that we need a sufficiently broad coalition and a shared program. In any case, until now no one has called me".

Thus the economist Carlo Cottarelli at the demonstration for the Ukrainian people in Milan on his possible candidacy for the regional in Lombardy with the center-left.

"A ticket with Moratti? These are things I read in the newspapers - replied Cottarelli - the question is not whether I would be happy with her who is a woman of great experience. But I would like to understand well what it means to work in a ticket with Moratti. always with everyone and if someone comes to me to ask me, I won't have any problems ".