SUMMARY: Statement about the acceptance of candidacy offered to him by the Radical Party in the approaching National and European elections: "A live person has the right to contradiction."

(NOTIZIE RADICALI, April 27, 1979)

By accepting to be a candidate for the Radical Party in the approaching elections for the National and European Parliaments, I perfectly know that I am contradicting myself regarding the statements I recently made about my vocation and decision to be only an author and a writer.

But a live person has the right to contradiction. I'd also like that the epigraph of my life could simply be: "He contradicted and contradicted himself." A contradiction in the name of life and hope .

Translator's note:

SCIASCIA LEONARDO. (Racalmuto 1921 - Palermo 1990). Writer and author of several famous novels ("Le parrocchie di Regalpetra", 1956; "Il giorno della civetta, 1961; Todo modo, 1974), but also known as a polemist, he took active part in the Italian civil life for at least twenty years. During one legislature (1979-1983) he was also radical member of Parliament, actively intervening in civil rights campaigns (Tortora case, etc.).