In Sassari, a street named after Francesco Cossiga – Adnkronos

Image archive (Frame)

Posted on: 08/16/2016 16:14

 A street named after Francesco Cossiga in his Sassari. Six years after his death, and ahead of ten years required by canon law on place names, officially titled the City a way the former president of the Republic. In fact, a course in the period downtown Umberto, a few steps from St. Joseph’s Church, the parish of the President ‘picconatore’.

 From tomorrow, the day will discover the plaque, should thus give in Margherita di Savoia way to one of the protagonists of the Italian republican history: the Christian Democrats already at 17, Cossiga, several times minister, was at the Interior Ministry within 55 days of the Moro kidnapping , then he became chairman of the Council, President of the Senate, until arriving at the Quirinal. At 10.30, with a ceremony attended by the sons Giuseppe and Anna and the journalist Pasquale Chessa, the already ongoing Margherita of Savoy become ‘over Francesco Cossiga’, the section between Via and Via Giuseppe Manno Giorgio Asproni.

 After a week, no other way, other Sassari ‘Doc’, another star of Italian republican history. On August 24, it will be the turn of Enrico Berlinguer. The Avenue plaque dedicated to the father of the ‘historic compromise’ will discover the presence of the daughters Maria and Bianca and replace a stretch of Via Antonio Manno. Two corner streets for iron Democrat and historian Secretary of the Italian Communist Party, as well as ” real cousins ​​”, as he liked to remember Cossiga. ” Two-way to two contemporary fathers of our national policy ”, says the mayor of Sassari Nicola Sanna Adnkronos.

 “We will change the place names of two streets with no iconoclastic fury against kings and queens but in order not to cause inconvenience to the public with bureaucratic complications, such as address change on the various documents or other – explains Sanna – I mean a painless choice compared to bureaucratic complications. They are routes that skirt some schools, where there are no residences, in an area that is born in the period as Umberto I, when we were still Sardinia-Piedmont. The goal was to identify key areas and visited the nationality without a residential density ”.

 A decision, approved by the Government in October 2015, which has had a particular process as the place names on the legislation provides that no one may entitle streets to people before the ten years after his death. But, ” given the personality, we asked the prefecture an exception ”.

 Otherwise the ‘Kossiga’ spelled with a ‘K’ on the walls of the streets of Italy in revolt of 1977 (he was interior minister) or the Gladio affair are just a distant echo. ” There have been no major controversies – remembers Sanna – only a few hints, but mostly on social networks, on the part of some character to the extreme left. Sassari Cossiga has always been a very private personality. There has never been a visit by his pomp, he recoiled, as Antonio Segni (other president of the Republic was born in Sassari ed), the town showcase. Despite being a connoisseur of the reality of the city, although very often in consultation with the mayors who have succeeded over the years, has never had a ‘protectorate’ ” attitude.

 Cossiga and Berlinguer, ” contemporary fathers of our national policy ”, reiterated the mayor, but almost unknown to the new generations. ” Unfortunately there’s barely know that Cossiga was President of the Republic and Berlinguer a politician, as we saw in the movie ‘When there was Berlinguer’ Walter Veltroni. Besides, there are not even more parties to which they belonged ”.

 Finally a personal memory. ” I met him when he was president emeritus in a visit in 2009 . It was a bit ‘a reunion between old friends, although there was also an official ceremony where there was talk of constitutional reform. It had all the characteristics of Sassari, doubtful until the last detail. Even his period of ‘picconatore’ recalls ironic attitude that Sassari have respect to serious matters. He enjoyed a little ‘to highlight the contradictions between the principles and some laws of our legal system, some weaknesses of our constitution’ ‘.

 ” Always surprised interlocutors than imaginary cliches – said the mayor of Sassari – He put the other party in a timid but not provided up to a confrontation. All they tell of his passion for technology. In town he had a special relationship with Mr. Paolotto, owner of the largest of Sassari technology shop. From the first cell to the first cameras, it was he who kept him updated on the latest news. Behold, it was not obvious and a striking personality ”.