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December 18, 2019At the Quirinale, the traditional exchange of greetings by the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, with the high offices of the State.

"It is not important that we think the same things" but the "common acceptance of essential reasons of freedom of respect and dialogue" is of extraordinary importance.

Sergio Mattarella spoke to the highest offices of the state gathered at the Quirinale on the occasion of year-end greetings and citing Aldo Moro he urged to find a common way to go "farther and higher".

Those with roles have a common good responsibility
"Those who hold institutional roles must feel the responsibility to do it in the name and on behalf of all citizens," said Mattarella. Aldo Moro "was well aware of the grave danger unfortunately confirmed for the successive events that runs a society crossed by deep lacerations. The common good is indeed good for all, without exception and those who administer public affairs, who is called to govern is expressing certainly the guidelines of the majority but with the duty to respect and guarantee the freedom and rights of the other minorities. This is the essence of democracy that requires mutual respect ".

"New Government formed with Constitution mechanisms"
"In the course of 2019 the resignation of the government took place in the previous year, as the support of the coalition on which it was based ceased to exist. In Parliament, according to the mechanisms provided for by the Constitution, a new and different coalition of majority was formed which the new Ministry expressed and gave him the confidence "the president of the Republic added. "In renewing my gratitude to the members of the previous government for the work performed - he added - I express my best wishes to the newly established government for its activity".

"Environment, prevention is a duty"
The Head of State then spoke of the issue of protecting the environment and the territory. The environment and the territory are "fragile" and therefore "prevention is a duty" Mattarella said.:"We are fully inside an unprecedented swirling change. The world in which we find ourselves is different from the one we have known. "We live is different. Today, climate change makes our territories appear fragile. People who face the dramatic consequences of disasters that it would be illusory to define exceptional, given the frequency with which they repeat themselves, are unsure. to define a new idea of ​​care of the territory and its defense, based on risk prevention, and not centered on the emergency phase. Prevention is a duty ".

"Job missing enemy to be defeated together"
"The prolonged weakness of the economy has weighed heavily on the productive apparatus of our country, with heavy employment consequences and serious phenomena of social disintegration. Here is the mission to fight for and the enemy to be defeated together: the work that is lacking, that work indicated as the foundation of our Republic ". Thus the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, in the conclusion of his speech. "The work that, when it is there, is often precarious or underpaid. We need paid and protected work, also in security, as a remedy for social fragmentation, as a central element of economic recovery. The work that can be the result of investments that the game of the system is growing and facing the problems that hinder development ", said the Head of State.

Europe "coveted to find effective solutions"
"Europe is our home and is the essential area of ​​integration to allow our country to measure itself against issues that have become, like it or not, global and that can only find effective solutions at this level. In a world where the protagonists they now have continental dimensions ". Thus concluded President Mattarella.

"Back to the past leads to melancholy decline"
"It is paradoxical, projected as we already are in tomorrow, that it is contradicted by pushes and aspirations to return to conditions of the past; to an impossible past because it has been removed from reality. Such a choice would inevitably lead to a rapid and melancholic decline. limit to endure the events, leaving to the uncontrolled dynamics the task of deciding how the new world will be ". Thus the Head of State at the Quirinale.

"Women at the top of institutions, factor growth and balance"
"The presence of women at the top of the institutions and in the roles of corporate responsibility and civil society is an extraordinary factor of growth and balance", stressed Mattarella. The president expressed appreciation to the new president of the Constitutional Court and to the new leader of the Avvocatura Generale dello Stato, just as he greeted Elisabetta Casellati as president of the Senate last year. "These are choices that highlight - he said - how merit does not find gender obstacles". Mattarella has therefore recognized the progress made but "the gaps remain and we must face them with determination. Today women's work is the main opportunity for growth and development".