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“It seems to me that the subject is a little dramatized. There are good reasons for both Yes and No. In the end, I turned to No, especially in line with my general attitude towards Parliament. I entered the Senate on tiptoe, honored and surprised by the election of President Mattarella who, as I have emphasized on several occasions, has a deep symbolic value and transcends me. I entered as one enters a temple because Parliament is the highest expression of democracy. So hearing about this institution that is part of my civil religion as if everything were reduced to costs and seats, it is something that simply does not belong to me ”. With her proverbial serenity, Liliana Segre, a senator for life, a Holocaust survivor, announces her election to the referendum in a lengthy interview about Repubblica.
Among other things, he also reiterates that “I will continue speaking in public, if I have the strength, but I will never repeat my testimony. My life is characterized by phases and for some time I have felt that this phase, which lasted about 30 years, had to end “:
“No one who has not lived what we have experienced can understand how much it cost the survivors – those few who did – to start counting and then remember that past over and over again,” says Liliana Segre. From the outside, perhaps you only feel the effort to repeat the same story over and over again, but it is another, it is a psychic exhaustion difficult to explain, on the one hand there is in the witness the liberating need of the duty fulfilled, but on the other hand there is the constant risk of splitting. There is a Liliana of today, who every time remembering the events looks with infinite pain at the Liliana of that time, as a grandmother looks at a beloved granddaughter, and forces her to fall back into that horror, repressing as then the cry of What a hatch inside Having turned 90, I have to resign myself to respecting the limits of my fragility. Even if the moral debt that every Holocaust survivor feels towards those who have not counted again is insatiable. “
The senator for life is in solidarity with the Minister of Education, Lucía Azzolina:
“I don’t think anyone wanted to put themselves in the shoes of Minister Azzolina, who in this emergency had to practice the art of squaring the circle. It reminded me of that movie, Apollo 13, in which astronauts design themselves by reusing the materials they find on board to survive after equipment failure. It is very important that the school restart. I follow what happens in the school world with particular participation because I feel a very strong bond. Both for having been deprived as a child of training, human contact, emotional and cultural growth to share with my classmates and teachers, and for having found in school fifty years later, as a witness of history, the place where I could exercise my mission ” .
Finally, he reiterates his support for the government of the day, when asked if he regretted having voted for him:
“Certainly not everything has gone well, there have been delays and errors. But like I said, we are faced with something unknown and no one knows exactly how to deal with it, so it is inevitable that scientists and governments alike will proceed by trial and error. It seems to me that, looking objectively at what has happened around the world, we can say that the Italian government has handled the situation better than others. So not only am I not sorry, but I regret not having been able to renew my support in recent months: I had some health problems and the doctors put me to rest and I could no longer go to the Senate. “
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