Emma Bonino's state funeral is today at the Capitoline Hill: Mattarella and Meloni expected.

The Capitoline Hill will once again be the setting for the final act. Today, Tuesday, September 15, at 12:30 p.m., the State will pay its final respects to Emma Bonino in the Sala della Protomoteca. The secular funeral will be attended by President Sergio Mattarella, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, and Senate President Ignazio La Russa.  

In recent days, Meloni had chosen words of respect to remember Bonino: a strong and recognizable voice in Italian politics, she had described her, admitting positions "very divergent on the content," but claiming that, for this reason, she had never ceased to recognize her authority and influence in the country's public life. 

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Carla Taibi, who served as Bonino's assistant for years, will open the ceremony, along with Filomena Gallo. Riccardo Magi and Benedetto Della Vedova will then speak, before closing remarks will be given by Romano Prodi and Enrico Letta, the prime minister under whom Bonino led the Farnesina as Foreign Minister. 

Yesterday, during the second day of the funeral chapel at the Capitoline Hill, Deputy Prime Minister Antonio Tajani, Defense Minister Guido Crosetto, former prime ministers Massimo D'Alema and Enrico Letta, and the leader of Noi Moderati (We Moderates) Maurizio Lupi all attended. Giuseppe Conte also arrived in the afternoon. Also present, among others, were Roberto Giachetti for Italia Viva, Renato Brunetta, President of the National Council of National Employment and Labour (CNEL), Democratic Senator Cecilia D'Elia, and Bobo Craxi. For Azione, the group leader in the Chamber of Deputies, Matteo Richetti, MP Valentina Grippo, and Rome secretary Alessio D'Amato.  

Last night, also in Rome, a secular vigil was held, opened with remarks by Riccardo Magi. "Many Italians, both men and women, have seen in Emma Bonino an example of how to behave within institutions," he said. Numerous speakers spoke from the stage throughout the ceremony, beginning with Rome's mayor, Roberto Gualtieri, followed by Elly Schlein, who said, "As a female leader, I owe a lot to her battles," Roberto Saviano, Kasia Smutniak, and Francesco Rutelli. Also in the square were Angelo Bonelli, Pier Ferdinando Casini, Luciana Castellina, and Bobo Craxi.  

"The left must keep in mind that civil rights and social rights are inseparable. Anyone who places them in a hierarchy is mistaken. In battles fought over social rights, we must always keep in mind that those who are discriminated against for who they are are also people who work, who run businesses, and who pay taxes like everyone else. Yet precisely because they are discriminated against, they have a harder time finding work, they have a harder time starting a business, they have a harder time accessing the services for which they pay taxes like everyone else. So I believe these battles must be united because separating them only plays into the hands of the right, which seeks to abandon all rights, both individual and collective," Schlein continued. 

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