RRome, May 24th. (askanews) – Dozens of short “video-selfies”, shot on cell phones by ordinary citizens and also by well-known faces from sport, entertainment or culture, to celebrate 80 years of the Italian Republic. It is the initiative of the Presidency of the Republic «For me the Republic is»..

«Do you also want to be a face of the Republic? A few seconds of video with you in the foreground are enough and complete, with your thoughts, what the Republic means to you”, explains the Quirinale in a statement. As President Mattarella said: «We are the Republic. Each of us”.

The dedicated website www.ivoltidellarepubblica.quirinale.it is online and there are already those who have decided to participate, making a short video with their mobile phone, in which they tell what the Republic represents for her or him eighty years after the referendum of 2 June 1946. Everyone can participate by contributing to the creation of a living archive of women and men, of all ages and regions who daily make up the faces and voices of the Republic.

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