Free to protect the Institute of the Regency
One thing is certain: events involving an Exc. Captain Regent during the last semester damage the image and authority of the most representative institution of the Republic and its history. The closest and most respected institution of San Marino. Centuries of tradition to safeguard this Institute risk being canceled in an instant if the management of the affair is not characterized by that truth and transparency that must necessarily be the basis of a millenary that looks to the future.
Councilor Simoncini, we are sure, and Libera hopes so, will have all the possibilities guaranteed by the legal system to clarify his position and to defend himself from the accusations that are made against him, and which must be evaluated only by the judicial authorities.
It is not the legal question that we intend to address in this press release, of course, but the policies relating to the protection of the Regency institute.
Because there are many events that leave us disconcerted, starting with the conspiratorial attitude of part of the majority and of the Government that since March 3 has hidden this sad episode and invents, making it badly suggested, the fact that the Captain Regent involved does not have the opportunity to respond and defend themselves, before the end of the mandate. It’s false. If the “wound” inflicted on the community is to heal completely – but unfortunately the scar will remain – it must be treated with truth and not with silence.
Too many times, in fact, silence in similar events reigns supreme. Too many times the person who is harassed takes refuge in silence to save shame and embarrassment. Even more serious becomes the smear campaign against the victim, bringing up conspiracies or goliardia. So we go back 50 years and decades of struggles against silence are nullified, re-proposing the prejudice towards those who “maybe they tried it, maybe they exaggerated in the reaction, maybe they didn’t quite understand the innocent gesture”.
If the government and most of the decades do not facilitate a work of truth – as opposed to what has been done right now – we would throw away the fight against harassment at work, having just ratified the ILO convention on the subject, given that the facts denounced by a worker, a servant of the state, who in carrying out her work could have received a personal humiliation that had neither the reason for immediately nor the duty to remain silent.
Nobody takes it badly for this dutiful stance, which, moreover, is absolutely comparable to that of Simoncini’s colleague, SE Mussoni, who, according to the press, had “no intention of underestimating the affair”, precisely in defense of the credibility of the Supreme Judiciary, protected among other things by section XVIII of the Statutes of 1600.
The Exc. Captains Regent are the Heads of State of our Republic, they supervise the functioning of public powers and institutions and represent all citizens, who in them have the right to find a model to follow and strict compliance with the rules. Free therefore in full guarantee and certainly not to politically exploit a very delicate situation, asks that pending due clarity on the facts by the Court, no one should dare to create plots or minimize what happened, no one tries directly or not to delegitimize those who have reported an alleged harassment or to intimidate those who will be called to tell the facts.
Press release
Libera – San Marino
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