"It is an important idea to pay homage to the memory of Giacomo Matteotti. This year is the centenary of his death at the hands of fascists, and we want to keep that memory and that courage alive."
The secretary of the Democratic Party Elly Schlein said this
at the Matteotti monument to which she paid homage with a delegation from the PSE
.
Schlein recalled the secretariat he kept where the body of the socialist deputy was found.
"It is important to be here - he added - because it means having a shared memory. The socialist family is a real family, which shares values".
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the Nazarene for a meeting with Schlein.
Scholz was welcomed at the entrance by the secretary of the Democratic Party and the party's head of foreign affairs, Giuseppe Provenzano.
Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen also arrived during the afternoon.
The example of Alessandra Todde in Sardinia teaches that "if women go to vote we can change things", said Schlein speaking at the 'Feminist Seminar' initiative in the Chamber as part of the PSE congress.
"It's nice to be here today - began Schlein - and it is essential to have a space open not only to women but to feminists to discuss everywhere in Europe and also in Italy".
"The right is growing everywhere", she added, highlighting that there is "a great return of patriarchy".
"Here - she said again - we have a female prime minister but this is a government against women".
Schlein cited for example the difficulties in some regions for women to access abortion as well as the data on female employment which "in the South has the lowest data in all of Europe".
"In Italy - she underlined - nothing is changing with a female prime minister, in fact things are getting worse. Female leadership is different from feminist leadership. You don't break the glass ceiling if you are alone, indeed if the other women don't even see that ceiling".
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