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<\/a>Saturday 14 March.<\/strong> The \u201cSal\u00e3o dos Atos\u201d hall immersed in the greens of the Curitiba Barigui Park, was filled with Federal and State Deputies, Mayors, Councillors, Public Officers, youth and academics who came from the Amazon, the Northeast, Brasilia and other cities of Brazil.<\/a><\/p>\nUnusual words echoed in the meeting hall: politics was presented as the \u201c love of loves\u201d <\/strong>which urges<\/strong> Public Administrators to create projects that respond to the demands of the communities and gives citizens the possibility to achieve their own aspirations.\u00bb They all were reminded that \u00abpower that enforces but it is love that confers authority.\u00bb The word \u201cfraternity\u201d was often repeated, not only as the ethical principle of politics but as \u201cits very substance.\u201d These were the central points of Chiara Lubich<\/a>\u2019s thought which Maria Voce<\/a>, President of the Focolare, cited in her message and which were deepened in the various speeches.<\/p>\n This vision of politics <\/strong>that Chiara herself had proposed years ago in the parliaments of the various countries, appeared today like a light in the crisis tunnel Brazil is undergoing. It stirred up new hope, because many testimonials testified to its implementation not only in Brazil, but also in other countries. An innovative panorama, presented in a documentary-video<\/a> at the start of the event promoted by the Political Movement for Unity (MPPU<\/a>) of the Focolare, on Chiara\u2019s<\/p>\n The meeting took place simultaneously with two popular manifestations of opposite beliefs and many of the interventions underlined the political, economic and ethical crises, stressing the growing lack of faith in the institutions. \u00abWe have come as mediators, called to change this situation through dialogue and fraternity,\u00bb<\/strong>, said Sergio Previdi, National President of the MPPU.<\/p>\n \u00abFraternity means implementing a strategy of unity, seeking dialogue <\/strong>between the majority party and the opposition between institutions and societies, in the mutual effort to achieve common good<\/strong>\u00bb, affirmed the Mayor of Sorocaba, Antonio Carlo Pannunzio. For further information consult:<\/strong> www.mppu.org.br <\/a>– www.focolares.org.br<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Federal and State Deputies, Mayors, Councillors and public Officers, Academics and youth from all over Brazil gathered in Curitiba to reflect on the contribution Chiara Lubich\u2019s ideas can give to politics today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"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":[893],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-focolare-worldwide-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327164","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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"IMG_2873_Curitiba\"](\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_2873_Curitiba.jpg\")
<\/a>\u00abThis is a great challenge. <\/strong>Democracy is not only a technical fact, but needs a soul, We have to re-think politics in order re-humanize it,\u201d affirmed Gustavo Fruet, Mayor of Curitiba. And he cited the innovative political culture of Chiara, which inspired the 2010-2030 programme to make Curitiba \u201ca global innovator city,\u201d already recognised as a model of sustainable planning and as the city of fraternity \u00bb.
Many of the speeches of Councillors and Deputies of various political parties that try, not without effort, to actuate a politics that goes against the current, testified to how they draw from MPPU a \u201cnew strength and new commitment.\u201d<\/p>\n
Julio Carneiro of MPPU Brazil, mentioned the citadels <\/a>founded by Chiara Lubich (more than 20as of today), as model-structures of a city, to testify to the impact fraternity has on civil coexistence..
\u00abA new political culture that calls for new men and women<\/strong>\u00bb, affirmed Prof. Marconi Aur\u00e9lio Silva, highlighting the urgent need to train the youth in active citizenship, based on fraternity: \u00abgiven that we are by nature relational beings and not isolated individuals \u00bb And he spoke of the many results achieved by the Civitas School in many states of Brazil and the world.<\/p>\n