Mattarella says breath of freedom is right of opposition

(ANSA) - ROME, JUL 3 - President Sergio Mattarella on Wednesday said the breath of freedom is the right of opposition.
    "Speaking in Turin, at the first edition of the Democracy Biennial, in 2009, the President of the Republic, Giorgio Napolitano, turned his gaze to the construction of our republican democracy, with the acquisition of the principles that have placed our country, since then, in the furrow of western liberal-democratic thought," Mattarella said, speaking at the Social Week of Catholics in Italy being held in Trieste.
    "After the obsessive constraint of the fascist regime, the breath of freedom blew, with the Constitution as the framework and guarantee of citizens' rights.
    "The breath of freedom first and foremost as a rejection of any obligation of social and political conformity, as the right to opposition." (ANSA).