"The terrible images of military trucks that carry away the coffins of many
people who died from the virus
will remain engraved in our minds , people who in many cases have left us without greetings from family members, without a prayer at their funeral. We will not forget them They represent a permanent warning. A severe and not ephemeral appeal to responsibility. Celebrating the Anci assembly here means awareness of the lessons deriving from the pandemic".
President
Sergio Mattarella
said this when speaking
at the national assembly of Anci in Bergamo, the national assembly of the association that brings together Italian municipalities
.
In addition to the mayors from all over Italy, the
president of Anci Antonio Decaro,
Minister of Regional Affairs and Autonomies, Roberto Calderol
i, and the President of
the Lombardy Region, Attilio Fontana.
The pandemic "has shown that society and institutions can only win in the
clarity of common goals and values.
Municipalities have been fundamental tools in this enterprise that has been able to raise the threshold of social protection, alongside doctors, women and men involved in essential services and in security.
State, Regions, Municipalities, Provinces, have been able to team up
, affirming the unity of the Republic, with an admirable capacity for recomposition and understanding in the management of the emergency. We have realized the role of science " the head of state said again.
"
The Municipalities are Italy.
They are the Republic, as stated in article 114 of the Constitution. The almost
9,000 Municipalities
fulfill, with the same dignity and commitment, the responsibility of supporting our communities, offering services of a universal nature. The The Constitution establishes the principle of equality for citizens and, of course, it applies to the Municipalities, which must all be put in a position to fulfill the tasks entrusted to them, in order to contribute to the realization of the constitutional principle of the equal dignity of citizens", he concluded.