Mattarella's 2 June: Quirinale gardens open to the vulnerable and pop artists on stage

After 80 years since the referendum that chose the Republic, it is time to consolidate and revitalise the relationship of 'trust' between institutions and citizens. On the eve of 2 June, the President of the Republic indicates the objectives to be pursued through a series of events increasingly dedicated to Italians and less to the country's political apparatus.

The traditional and exclusive reception in the gardens of the Quirinale that gathered around glasses of bubbly the elite of politics and economics with a corollary of grand commis of the State has been cancelled, as Ansa recalls. At least for this year. Because there is an increasing need, the Head of State said, to 'consolidate the architecture of trust between institutions and citizens'.

While the Quirinale issued the usual message to the prefects, the gardens of the Quirinale filled with children and the elderly representing the world of the so-called 'frail' with their carers, plastically embodying the spirit of solidarity so dear to the Catholic democratic president. Some 1500 people with all their problems cheerfully invaded the lawns of the Presidency of the Republic, all waiting to see Mattarella up close.

A warm morning that found its most touching moment with the embrace between the president and a little girl named Sofia. Little Sofia has unwittingly become a web star thanks to a video that has gone viral. The little girl, a patient in the oncology ward of the Bambino Gesù hospital in Rome, was waiting for Sinner and Medvedev to enter the court at the Internazionali di Tennis in Italia: the Russian tennis player, who came out first, took the little girl's hand, but she made him understand that she preferred to go out with the Italian champion, who was then greeted with jumps of joy. Today he was at the Quirinale with his mother and when he saw Mattarella approaching he reached out to hug him. Photos and selfies and a lot of emotion for his mother.

Therefore, having 'frozen' the reception that was to take place on the evening of 1 June, the Quirinale focused on the event that will take place in the Quirinale square and will be broadcast live by RAI. As many as 23 cities will set up giant screens in their squares to bring the commemorative event closer to the people in the various regions of Italia. The day will open with a deposition at the Altar of the Fatherland and then with the military review in Via dei Fori Imperiali. In the afternoon, RAI will broadcast a dialogue between the President and some Italian students on the meaning of the Republic eighty years after its birth. Then the grand finale with 'The Faces of the Republic', the event strongly desired by the Quirinale live from Piazza del Quirinale, in the presence of the highest offices of the State. A special event that will see the participation of numerous personalities from the world of culture, art, sport and institutions.