12 February 2006

Men before programmes

Yesterday the Programme of the Union was presented. It’s an important programme, and can be accessed in its entirety from this site.

The programme is described in a 281-page book and to be honest, I don’t believe many people will read it.

Its contents are important and in the next few weeks I will try to explain its most important points in simple terms.

However programmes are carried out by humans and not by documents and I must say that I feel uncomfortable about people like Ciriaco De Mita being a candidate at the top of the list for the Centre Left in Campania.

The Union and the country need a renewal of politics – not a re-exhumation of the people who were responsible for the failure of the First Republic.

Severino Citaristi, ex-treasurer of the Christian Democrats, was the person with the record number of prosecution notices in the time of “Mani Pulite” and his secretaries were Arnaldo Forlani and of our Ciriaco De Mita. If the Centre Left had followed logic or good sense, they would not have put him forward as a candidate and especially not at the top of the list where he can decide on the candidates in his local area.

I’ve learned the hard way that politics is conducted through compromise.

But this type of politics is mainly compromise and therefore it cannot work.

I repeat: politics must be at the service of the people, develop programmes and after 2 terms of office leave Parliament. The old hats, the professional politicians are by now, part of last century and should be dropped.

Posted by Antonio Di Pietro in Politics