Rome, May 16 - President Sergio Mattarella on Thursday repeated that all Italian citizens should take care of the Italian Republic. "A few years ago I used the expression 'take care of the Republic', he told organisers of the 20th cancer Race for the Cure. "I meant that each of our co-citizens must feel the task of working for the common good, for the general interest. "This is an extraordinarily effective formula to give a response to this need".