The President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, met today with the leaders of Casagit, the journalists' health fund. And he began his reflection on the importance of the Constitutional Charter and freedom of the press. “It is fundamental to our democracy, as it is to any democracy. Who sees in our Constitution a clear, clear, incontestable protection, in relation to which there is an assumption of responsibility on the part of journalists: loyalty, independence of information, freedom of criticism, respect for the personality of others, respect facts . But it is an indispensable element of our democracy, and I have tried on several occasions to recall and emphasize this indispensability”, he explains. “I would like to take this opportunity – he specifies – to emphasize that the President of the Republic is frequently invoked with increasingly diverse motivations. There are those who turn to him and ask him vehemently: “The President of the Republic must not sign this law because he cannot accept it, because it is seriously erroneous.“, Or: “the President of the Republic signed this law and therefore shared it, approved it, made it his own“. The President of the Republic does not sign the laws, he signs the promulgation, which is a completely different thing. » “When I sign a law, I do my duty,” says Mattarella. “It would be serious if one of the powers – and among them also the President of the Republic – claimed to take on tasks that the Constitution assigns to the other powers of the State. Fortunately, the president is not a sovereign. And it is an indication of democracy which is part of this harmonious plan that our Constitution indicates and presents in a sincerely admirable way for those who wrote it, who had the strength – in difficult conditions and also dialectically very hot – to define and approve it. This too is part of freedom, with respect for the freedom of all those to whom the Constitution assigns a task which – he further clarified – no one can take away and make it their own”, concludes the Head of the state.
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