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November 17, 2021 "Each Parliament is a temple of democracy. The confrontation between different visions finds a place there, in view of a synthesis oriented towards the common good".
This was stated by the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella in his speech before the Cortes (the Spanish Parliament with rooms together) carried out as part of the state visit to Madrid where he was received with a long applause: "We are happy to welcome the President of the Repubblica Sergio Mattarella and the whole delegation "said the president of the Congress of Deputies Meritxell Batet.
He was also welcomed by the President of the Senate, Ander Gil García.
"A confrontation - said Mattarella - which is the essence of democracy and the affirmation of the rule of law, because it is registered within the limits and guarantees of the Constitution". Parliament, he stressed, is "a meeting point for all citizens and - at the same time - a starting point for guaranteeing social peace, well-being and development". "Parliamentary diplomacy has a significant role in promoting relations between peoples, in deepening the knowledge of the reasons and sensibilities prevailing in each country, in helping to bring out that" European citizen "which is one of the most concrete and positive fruits of a process of continental integration that we are undertaking together "continued the President of the Republic.
"We are going through a period of great transformations, of the imperious growth of technology, of renewed tensions at the planetary level and of crisis on our borders. A period in which - he stressed - it will be decisive to maintain constant attention on the safeguarding of rights and freedoms. and protections, painstakingly conquered since the last century. These are issues that the national parliaments, together with the Strasbourg Assembly, will have to consider at the center of their agenda ". "It is up to the Parliaments to bridge the gap between the trajectory marked by the aspirations contained in the constitutional texts and the real conditions, through political confrontation. It is a difficult and exciting task" underlines Mattarella.
"The long experience as a member of Parliament - he continued - has consolidated my convictions on the irreplaceable centrality of the parliamentary function in the development of a national society and in the ability to transmit a dimension of democratic participation in multilateral organizations in which the international community is increasingly destined to organize itself ". "Here - in Parliament - Honorable representatives, the freedom of a people resides", he stressed.
"Italy and Spain brothers, they must work together"
"Italy and Spain are countries between which there is a natural, fraternal sharing. Our ties derive from history, from the common Latin root of our languages, from belonging to a geographical and cultural horizon that is at the same time European and Mediterranean - he continues the Head of State - These bonds have forged an extraordinary relationship between our populations, with aspirations and visions that have mutually enriched. Both our countries are at the center of an area, the Mediterranean, poised between possible marginality in the axes of global development and incisive integration between two continents, Africa and Europe It therefore seems natural to work together, so that our requests can receive adequate consideration, thus strengthening and fortifying the entire edifice of the European Union.
After the commitments in Madrid, the President of the Republic will move to Malaga, where at 6 pm he will speak at the closing session of the fourteenth Cotec Europa symposium, an organization that deals with research and innovation, together with the King of Spain, Philip VI, and the President of the Portuguese Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.