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Tribute from the Chamber to Matteotti, his name and a plaque on his desk in the Assembly.
AGI - “You want to push us back. We defend the free sovereignty of the Italian people, to whom we send the highest salute and believe we reclaim their dignity, asking for the postponement of the elections tainted by violence to the Electoral Board.” This was May 30, 1924, when Giacomo Matteotti concluded his speech in the Chamber to denounce the fraud and violence that accompanied the April 6 elections.
Words that the secretary of the Unified Socialist Party commented on immediately afterward with that phrase, “I have made my speech, now you prepare the funeral speech for me,” which foreshadowed the ambush by the fascist squad that killed him on June 10. Today, the name of Giacomo Matteotti is inscribed on the seat that the deputy occupied on the day of that speech.
A solemn ceremony, opened by the words of the President of the Chamber, Lorenzo Fontana – “those words still resonate today as a heartfelt appeal in defense of freedom against any authoritarian drift,” he notes – and culminated in the unveiling of the inscription on the back of the seat and the plaque that, on the seat, reads: “From this bench the socialist deputy Giacomo Matteotti delivered the historic speech of May 30, 1924 in defense of the free Parliament and against the intimidation and violence of fascism which cost him his life.” The moment was greeted first by a minute of silence requested by Fontana from the Chamber, and then by the applause of the assembly on its feet.
Fontana: “Further due homage of the Chamber to memory”
“102 years have passed since the murder of Deputy Giacomo Matteotti. It seems like a distant time, but his memory remains alive. The Chamber of Deputies pays a further and deserved tribute to his memory, in remembrance of his famous speech delivered in this Chamber on May 30, 1924, which cost him his life. It does this with a plaque affixed now to his seat, in implementation of the motion presented by colleague Dori on the occasion of the approval of the Chamber’s internal budget and unanimously adopted by the Presidency Office. Those words still resonate today as a heartfelt appeal in defense of freedom against any authoritarian drift.”
It is the President of the Chamber of Deputies, Lorenzo Fontana, who says this on the occasion of the commemoration of Giacomo Matteotti, with the unveiling of a plaque on his seat. Fontana also adds that “Matteotti that day did not only denounce the fraud and abuses of the April 1924 elections. He did much more. He openly exposed the climate of intimidation, aggression and abuse perpetrated by fascism to stifle any dissenting voice. Matteotti was among the first to clearly understand the serious threat looming over democratic institutions and civil and political freedoms. He identified in squadrismo the armed wing of a ruthless regime that prevented the free expression of popular sovereignty. And he openly accused the Mussolini government of founding its consent on the systematic use of violence.”
“The tragic outcome of this affair – he adds still – is clearly etched in the collective memory of our country. And it reminds us that the sacrifice of courageous men like Giacomo Matteotti was not in vain. Thanks to their tenacity and moral intransigence, we owe the rebirth of Italy after the long twenty-year dictatorship. The democratic society of our days is the daughter of the courageous choices of those who preceded us. Reflecting on such dark pages of our history, a century distant, is not a simple commemorative exercise.” “It is a call to safeguard those inviolable values of justice, freedom and human dignity that nourish the roots of our civil coexistence,” concludes Fontana.
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