Emma Bonino returned home almost two weeks after being hospitalized for serious respiratory and heart problems. “I’m taking a break from politics,” he declared, while continuing to keep his attention high on some issues: from citizenship to assisted suicide.
Emma Boninofounder of +Europa and historic exponent of the Radicals, former minister, senator and European commissioner (among other roles), is leaving politics for the moment and focusing on her health. The 76-year-old announced it upon her return after almost two weeks of hospitalization and rehabilitation, from the cardio-respiratory crisis that had brought her to hospital.
“I got really scared,” she said, “and this time I’m taking one respite from politics“. Speaking to Repubblica, Bonino clarified that in any case he will not stop his commitment to civil rights causes, from citizenship – the referendum also promoted by +Europa could be held between April and June 2025 – to the end of life. But he avoided talk about more strictly political issues, such as the defeat of the center-left in Liguria and the exclusion of Italia viva and Matteo Renzi: “For now, no political controversies, first I have to look after my health and recover and therefore I dedicate myself to treating myself. There is a time for all things. However, I have nothing to say to Renzi, nor him to me.”
Now, the priority is to get back to health. Bonino explained that after “hospitalization in the intensive care unit of the Santo Spirito hospital”, she was transferred to a clinic where she “began cardio-respiratory rehabilitation“. She was discharged a few days ago: “They brought me home on Wednesday and it was certainly hard, due to the serious cardiac and respiratory crisis. Both motor and respiratory gymnastics were recommended to me”. To start again, therefore, there will be a phase of “respite” from the more active politics.
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Even if, as mentioned, attention remains high on some issues. Among these the assisted suicidean issue that in Italy continues to be regulated only by the sentences of the Constitutional Court, and not by a real law.
“When you are sick it is clear that the essential questions of life and death emerge more forcefully,” Bonino said. For this reason, the former senator reiterated that we need to “approve a complete law on the end of life and assisted suicide”. While for the citizenship reform the decisions of the Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court are awaited on the referendum supported by +Europa and various civil society associations: a change to the current law that would allow many people to more simply become Italian citizens, after ‘only’ five years of continuous residence in the country instead of ten.
Bonino, however, has not completely withdrawn from more institutional politics. And, for example, he did not avoid commenting on the elections that will be held in a few days in the United States. After criticizing the “apologies” made by Italian politicians who have not taken a clear position – from Giuseppe Conte to Letizia Moratti – the radical stated: “I support Kamala and with conviction. Trump’s victory would lead to a scenario in which democratic principles as we know them are overturned. The lodestars of radical politics are the rule of law, freedom of individual choice and democracy.”
Source: www.fanpage.it
