{"id":292570,"date":"2011-06-23T06:15:05","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T04:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/the-movement-for-unity-in-politics-fifteen-years-from-its-founding\/"},"modified":"2024-05-13T20:43:11","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T18:43:11","slug":"the-movement-for-unity-in-politics-fifteen-years-from-its-founding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/the-movement-for-unity-in-politics-fifteen-years-from-its-founding\/","title":{"rendered":"The Movement for Unity in Politics, Fifteen Years from its Founding"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>To be \u201cthe builders of new cities”<\/strong> was the wish of Maria Voce, President of the Focolare, for the 20th<\/sup> of June encounter, in Naples, commemorating the birth of the Political Movement for Unity (PMU). “In the present context of the general disenchantment of the citizenry concerning public institutions,\u201d stated Maria Voce in her message, the achievements offered by the PMU \u2013 small perhaps, but significant \u2013 \u201cmake us hope in the season of “new politics” made of dialogue and mutual acceptance. The roots<\/strong>: May 2, 1996, in Naples, Italy.<\/strong> A group of politicians posed a question to Chiara Lubich: How is it possible for those who are active in different parties on opposite sides of the aisle, to live out the fraternity which she proposes, in the field of politics?”.\u00a0 In her answer, she called for\u00a0 new determination, for unity around shared core values \u200b\u200bmust come before the legitimate affiliation to a political party, and the common good can only be reached with the contribution of all. The PMU was born from these basic ideas, which were also wholeheartedly supported by the politicians in attendance. Fifteen years later on 20 June 2011, a conference entitled: \u201cBrotherhood: A Challenge for Politics\u201d was held at the public auditorium of the Regional Council for the purpose of acknowledging the entrance of Chiara Lubich\u2019s charism in civil history. More than 150 attended \u2013 among them parliamentarians and administrators from other regions as well. The first presentation was given by Eli Folonari who spent fifty years at Chiara\u2019s side and is now director of the Chiara Lubich Centre. She offered her listeners an outline that traced the excursus of this journey: from interpersonal love to a social love for the commonwealth. Today, the PMU operates in every region of Italy,<\/strong> various European nations, Latin America, and Asia. The various experiences that develop over the years converge in the spirituality of unity, beginning with the paradigm offered by Igino Giordani. The basic lines of the PMU were presented by Marco Fatuzzo, president of the International Centre, beginning with the definition offered by Chiara herself: \u201can international laboratory of common political work, between government officials, scholars, and politicians at various levels, from different party lines, who place fraternity at the basis of their life.\u201d <\/em> Within this same framework, some significant examples were offered: the laboratory of dialogue and policy design that is animated by the PMU in some of the parliaments of various countries \u2013 in Italy, for example, Brazil, Argentina, and South Korea \u2013 the international network of political training schools, in which youths can experience a politics of communion. Cities have also joined the network<\/strong>: “To date, more than 100 have joined the \u201cCity for Fraternity Association,\u201d \u00a0said the mayor of Rocca di Papa, Italy, Pasquale Boccia, who is also the association\u2019s current president. And why not the Regions? It was truly emblematic, therefore, that in the context of a more inclusive vision of Italy, \u00a0just at the conclusion of the conference, the president of the Regional Council of Campania, Italy, Paolo Romano, announced the unanimous membership of\u00a0 the assembly in the City for Fraternity Association, signing the memorandum of understanding. Published by the Movement for Unity in Politics<\/em> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Naples, Italy, a conference sponsored by the Regional Council of Campania, gives strength to the prospect of universal brotherhood in the political scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}