Avs nominates Ilaria Salis, ‘battle in defense of democracy’

(ANSA) – ROME, APRIL 26 – “A battle in defense of democracy, the Constitution and for Europe”. This is how Avs leaders Nicola Fratoianni and Angelo Bonelli define, in a press conference in the Chamber, the decision to nominate Ilaria Salis for the next European elections in the North-West constituency. Together with them there is also the father of the young woman who has been detained for 15 months in Hungary under a regime “much harsher than 41-bis”: Roberto Salis. And it is he who talks about the condition in which his daughter is kept with whom he manages to speak “no more than 70 minutes a week”. A minimum period within which Ilaria Salis also had to make and justify her choice to accept the candidacy with Alleanza Verde Sinistra. A choice explained in a letter, “to obtain which – Roberto Salis continues – took 15 days”, and in which the young woman thanks those who did not remain “indifferent” to her pain and expresses “gratitude” for what is doing in Italy” in her defense. Thanks to this interest and this mobilization, she has “found the strength to move forward” and to “look to the future”. And, if she is elected, she writes, her commitment will be to “bring the attention” that was shown to her “also to the people who are” in her “same situation”. and Fratoianni, who were in Budapest 48 hours ago to meet her, underline the importance of continuing to fight also in Europe for “the defense of fundamental rights” and the “rule of law”.