The Matteotti 30 May 1924 took the floor to the room to challenge the results of previous elections held on April 6. While fascists rose from the benches and noise complaints that interrupted repeatedly urged Matteotti with a speech that he would be famous: "context in this place and on trunk the validity of the election of the majority. The election is essentially invalid according to us, and we add that is not valid in all constituencies. "
Matteotti continued, denouncing a new series of violence, lawlessness and abuses committed by the fascists to be able to win elections. After the speech, after the congratulations of his companions, said to them, with almost prophetic foresight, saying: "I have done my speech. Now you prepare your funeral speech for me. "
On another occasion he uttered a sentence that would prove prophetic:
"Kill me too, but the idea is not to kill me ever '
The proposed Matteotti to invalidate the election at least a group of deputies by his charges, illegally elected because of violence and fraud was rejected by the House with 285 votes against, 57 in favor and 42 abstentions.
Renzo De Felice has called "absurd" interpretation of this speech as a request to Matteotti based on a realistic possibility to obtain a success. According to De Felice, Matteotti really was not intended to invalidation of the vote but
"its real purpose was to inaugurate the forum most resonant of Italy, the Chamber, and the earliest lines of the new term, a new way of being opposition, more aggressive, uncompromising, violent, even "
Matteotti's speech has been defined by Renzo De Felice," a double discourse of opposition against the fascist government, against fascism per se, but also and perhaps primarily, against the traitors of his own party and the CGL. According to historian
Rieti, in fact, Matteotti was already expressed in a letter to Turati to elections his intransigence towards the will of Fascism:
"First you need to take, compared to the fascist dictatorship, a different attitude from that taken up here, and our resistance to the regime of arbitrariness must be more active, we must not give at no point, do not leave any place without the most determined, the highest protests. All rights citizens must be claimed, the same code recognizes the self-defense. No one can flatter himself that fascism dominant voluntarily lay down their arms and return to Italy a system of law and freedom, (...) for a party of class and clear opposition to those who can not accept which are determined to a strength without limit, with firm discipline, all aimed at an end, the freedom of the Italian people. "
In his intransigence - however - Matteotti could not find a link with the work and the ' ideology of the Communists, who saw all the bourgeois governments equal and equally to be fought:
"The enemy is now only one, fascism. unwitting accomplice of fascism and communism. The violence and preached from one to the dictatorship, becomes the pretext and justification of violence and dictatorship in place of the other. "
The speech of May 30 - according to historian Giorgio Candeloro -" Mussolini and the Fascists gave the impression states have faced much opposition in the House of fighting that available in the previous room and not willing to submit passively to lawlessness and abuse ".
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