Thus in a note the Italian military union Guardia di Finanza, on the day of the celebrations of the Liberation Day: "The 25 April pushes us to a tenacious commitment so that the principles of the Constitution find a real application. Democracy is an asset to be defended every day: no turning back!".
The Sim Guardia di Finanza “chose to be born on March 15, on the day of San Longino, the Roman soldier who, after seeing Jesus die, converted to Christianity and chose a life of holiness, up to martyrdom. Every community certainly needs symbolic dates. April 25 is the most important of the symbolic dates for our country, because it reminds us of the fundamental values of the Constitution: solidarity, equality, freedom. Because it is the symbolic date of liberation from a regime that denied civil and social rights, including trade union freedom.
Freedom that, despite the Constitution, has been denied to citizens in uniform for over seventy years ”. “Only in 2018 the constitutional judges canceled the anachronistic ban on unionization. Thanks to the Constitutional Court, it will finally be possible to fully apply art. 52 of the precious 1947 Charter: "the organization of the Armed Forces is based on the democratic spirit of the Republic"