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BREVE VISITA AL SENATO - IV PUNTATA, con la collaborazione di CARLOTTA NAO
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A BRIEF VISIT TO THE SENATE by Franca Rame Part IV The first days of May … I’m looking for a place to stay … I find it. Just think -- right in the Piazza del Pantheon! It’s a small apartment on the first floor, with little light and no heating. I’ll need to put it in place myself… What’s more, it’s a little expensive … But when I open the window and find myself in front of the grand ellipse of the Pantheon with its enormous dome, the most ancient one in the world, I cry out: “This image frees me from any hesitation and various lumps in my throat!” Dario doesn’t want me to be in Rome by myself. The 9th of May Marina Belloni joined me, my FRIEND- ROOMMATE. She’s a great help to me. Knowing that Marina is with me gives me a sense of tranquility … she lives with me … how wonderful, I don’t feel alone anymore. She and Giuliana take care of the office. She gives me advice … she’s truly special, and what’s more we laugh, we make nice little lunches together, we watch TV. Giuliana, Marina … all three of us are very lively. In the morning I always wake up early … I arrive at Palazzo Madama when the assembly room is still closed. I go to the reading and computer room and begin working. As a rule, I visit my blog and reply to so many truly interesting letters that so many of you send me … Oh, look at this … there’s a guy who has a problem with me. He would like to beat me up to death. I stop for a moment, or maybe longer, to meditate … In the past I’ve suffered violence and I feel paralyzed by the mere thought that these aberrant acts can still strike me. Calm down, I tell myself. Calm down. It must be the usual mythomaniac who wants to make himself known. And I don’t think about it anymore. The 10th of May, I woke up at 5:25 am … from hunger. It sometimes happens that I skip dinner due to laziness … I make myself a nice cup of milk with barley … I dip in biscotti. Then I’ll go back to sleep, I tell myself. No, not really. Awake as a cricket. I decide to take a walk, and go outside. I like walking around Rome when there are few people around. I look at palazzo Chigi. I think of Prodi: he could perhaps finally invite me to lunch one of these days. A few days ago I bumped into Mrs. Flavia, his wife, who was walking around alone next to the gelateria Giolitti. We said hi to each other with affection. She even addressed me informally … I go to via del Corso to look at the shop windows. After all, I’m a woman and now and then I like to look at what the clothes stores have to offer. There’s something that I’d like to buy (these clothes seem well-adapted for such a prestigious institutional office). But the stores are closed. I’ll be back. I always say that, but then I never come back. I don’t have the time. I would have never thought that one works so much in the Senate. One also runs around a lot. Rather: always. Engagements one after the other. But it’s not like a lot is being done … I go into the Palazzo Madama. Today at the entrance there are two little sailors. The usual click of the heels and: “Looooook out!” But do they have to scare people like this, so early in the morning?! Ciao, ciao, my dear little soldiers. It’s 9:45 am. I have all the time I need to get a nice cappuccino with a cornetto. The Buvette is very crowded. I say hello here and there. Someone replies. Finocchiaro is also there. I smile at her. She looks at me without a nod or reply. The only time I heard Senator Finocchiaro affectionately call me “Francuzza” was when I, after a million doubts, had voted “yes” to the financial bill. But I’ll tell about this later on … It’s my invisibility that amazes me. Who knows why it’s difficult for her to say hello. I find her attitude ridiculous. Then I think. Perhaps she didn’t see me. Maybe she’s shortsighted … blind. Oh poor thing, she should be accompanied by a dog. Who knows, probably in the future she would manage to come down from the pedestal where she has settled down. It would be nice. We’ll hope for a future with dialogue, and dialogue not only with her. Another one that has a hard time saying hello is the Minister of Health: la Turco. (In the two years that I’ve been in the Senate, she has never said hello to me. Her loss!). Who knows what goes on in the heads of these ladies … in which layers of the atmosphere do they live in? I can’t help but move my head from left to right and from right to left … thinking of her majesty the queen of Sweden, who talked to Dario and yours truly for a long time during the Noble prize ceremony, without the problem of dealing with beings who weren’t at their level. At what level do they think they are? If Turco and Finocchiaro were to receive the Noble prize (an event which I find improbable), how would they behave with so many “nobodies” who fill this building, not to mention the world? Who would they speak to? I spontaneously feel like blowing a kiss to Dario, who by a survey of the Daily Telegraph turned out to be “the seventh most genius man in the world”, and yet I can testify to the fact that he is the most humble man I know. Yes, I truly pursed my lips, like one does when blowing a kiss. “Are you sending me a kiss?!” someone tells me from the crowd … I look around embarrassed … “No, I…” and my eyes widen. It’s President Marini, in person. “President, how wonderful to see a friendly face! Yes, this kiss is just for you … better still, I’ll give you another one!” He hugs me and I give him a kiss on the cheek. I’m fond of Marini. I find him easygoing, well-mannered (and this is a lot), always helpful. It’s time to go into the assembly room. The light-heartedness leaves me. 17th of May 2006, it’s a big day today! Both branches elected Romano Prodi as President of the Council. “We won’t fill our mouths talking of “the people” – he says – We have the seriousness and the awareness to be people among the people.” There, that day at Montecitorio with the whole Parliament united, I felt truly involved. I was very conscious of where I was from and what I was doing. When I go out, it’s one of the first times that I feel that I’ve done something good. May 19th 2006: Prodi, escorted as if we were in Iraq, arrives in the Senate. There was so much police blocking the entrances and the streets that I had to show my card to be able to enter the Senate. Our prime minister asks for the trust of the government, and he attains it: 165 yes, 155 no, no abstainer. Even all the senators for life voted in his favor. (How many whistles they received! I have before my eyes the president Ciampi who while going to vote, turns astounded. Someone with a raucous throat shouted: “adult diaper.” It’s hard to believe. I go out since it’s night and I find a tremendous downpour waiting for me. I’m as prepared as a girl scout…. I pull out of my bag a little yellow folding umbrella. It protects me enough … and on I go toward home. Walking by a gelateria, I don’t resist, I fulfill my desire with a cone of 2 euro. I walk slowly because I’m tired. I think of my house and smile. In 6 minutes I’m in bed. May 23, 2006. The senators, including myself, do an interrogation on the danger of asbestos. BILL ON ASBESTOS – THE SENATE OF THE REPUBLIC N. 23 BILL, the initiative of senators CASSON, MALABARBA, BAIO DOSSI, RIPAMONTI, TIBALDI,
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Amianto...
che ne è stato di quel ddl? Si può sperare che venga definitivamente riconosciuto come cancerogeno, una volta per tutte? Che le indagini per riconoscere che la morte di una persona sia effettivamente imputabile all'esposizione ad amianto siano più semplici, aperte e scorrevoli?
Dico questo perchè ho perso mia mamma in sole due settimane, mesoltelioma pleurico fulminante, e non ho potuto far alcunchè inquanto non essendo lei ritenuta "lavoratrice a rishio" non aveva una copertura assicurativa; inoltre, anche in ospedale hanno preferito non rilasciare carte ufficiali sulla causa della malattia, per evitare sporgessi denuncia (credo). Io allora ero troppo giovane ed inesperta e non ho portato avanti la causa, ma sarei lieta di sapere che possano essere risparmiate ad altri simili sofferenze oltre a quella per la perdita dei propri cari.
Grazie per aver fatto tutto quello che hai potuto Franca, anche su questo. Il tuo impegno, il tuo spenderti con tutte le tue forze è davvero lodevole. Continuo a rimpiangere le tue dimissioni, ma capisco che non avessi altra scelta. Ti leggo sempre con attenzione e attendo il prosieguo.
Un abbraccio.
Irene