80 years since the Constituent Assembly: a ceremony at the Chamber of Deputies on 25 June with Mattarella, Meloni and La Russa
The event will be broadcast live on Rai 1 and on the Chamber of Deputies’ web TV from 10.15, featuring the reception for the Head of State and a visit to the exhibition “1946: The Birth of the Republic, the Constituent Assembly at Montecitorio”
Key points
25 June marks the 80th anniversary of the first sitting of the Constituent Assembly, the elected body which, between June 1946 and January 1948, drafted the Constitution of the newly founded Italian Republic. To mark the occasion, the Chamber of Deputies – for it was at Montecitorio that the Constituent Assembly was based – will host a formal ceremony attended by the country’s highest-ranking officials.
The event
The event will feature a speech by the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, and introductory remarks by the President of the Chamber of Deputies, Lorenzo Fontana, and the President of the Senate, Ignazio La Russa.
The celebrations will begin at 11 am and will also be attended by the Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni – who, also on 25 June, will travel to Antibes for the intergovernmental summit between Italia and France – and Giovanni Amoroso, President of the Constitutional Court.
The exhibition
The event will be broadcast live on Rai 1, organised by Rai Parlamento, and on the Chamber of Deputies’ satellite channel and web TV, from 10.15 am, featuring the reception for the Head of State and a visit to the exhibition “1946: The Birth of the Republic: The Constituent Assembly at Montecitorio’. The exhibition has been open to the public since 7 May and is housed in the Sala della Lupa, where the results of the 2 June referendum were announced – the referendum in which Italians decided to abandon the monarchy and embrace a new form of government, the republic.
Through documents, photographs and multimedia materials, the exhibition enables visitors to retrace the institutional steps which, beginning with the liberation of Rome, led to the vote on 2 June 1946 and the drafting of the Constitution. At the exhibition’s opening, Fontana explained that this is an initiative ‘of particular cultural significance, forming part of the celebrations marking the 80th anniversary of the Constituent Assembly, which played a leading role in the country’s rebirth following the Fascist dictatorship’.
