ROMA (ITALPRESS) – “We find one of the fundamental moments of today’s Italy and what we are as a nation, the 80 years of the first vote for women. We do this in the anniversary of 10 March 1946 with the first administrative elections with universal suffrage, then 6 women could wear the tricolor band. A journey that has not yet been completed and has been marked by further stages.” Thus the President of the Council, Giorgia Meloni, during the event “1946-2026 Vote for women. Italian democracy is eighty years old.”.
“That vote in 1946 gave the Republic an indelible democratic character by starting a path still in progress towards full equality. Democracy was born and was born in the sign of women. Eighty years may seem a few, but it has been 80 years that have forged our people, who have allowed women to affirm and demonstrate what they are capable of. A path paved by sacrifices, courage, the talent of many women and which allowed me to come to cover this task, to be the first woman in charge of the government. I couldn’t be where I am if it wasn’t because of all the women who before us were not afraid to prove their value,” he admitted.
It is necessary that there are “services that allow women to compete with equal weapons, to have to choose between a child and the profession, to earn less and not to make career just because women”. I am proud of the “historical record of female employment reached after years when the percentage of women employed seemed unavoidable, it is not”, he added. There are no female policies but a female view of politics, no one will convince me that there are issues of the competence of women and other men. Any theme needs a composite sensibility.”.
“In these days in which we live a new and dangerous international crisis, our thought can only go to Iranian women who with a surprising courage challenge prison and torture to claim their freedom. I try towards them an infinite admiration and deep gratitude, remind us how precious are the achievements that we have managed to achieve even when we give them for granted.”.
On the issue of violence on women: “We are making a tenacious struggle against the hateful phenomenon of violence against women who still today make women live in a climate of anxiety and anguish and which produces an intolerable number of feminicides. But we cannot settle for the small decrease recorded in the year ended, it is a battle that we have not yet won but that we are leading together. On this I want to thank the opposition forces because the contribution brought in these years has been fundamental. There are themes of civilizations on which there is no sense to divide, politics is demonstrating to have something that is more at the heart of its personal interest that is the general interest on a matter too important so that one can divide”
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