14 April 2006

There’s no time to lose

There’s no point in having politics separate from the problems of the country. That’s sterile politics. As I’ve often stated, parliamentarians are at the service of the citizens, all of them, not just the ones who voted for them.
The true emergency in Italy is the economy. It’s an emergency that doesn’t follow institutional time frames. It’s not got time for useless counts of votes, for infinite discussions about nothing or about one’s own power position.

I don’t think that Italy can accept to wait two months before installing the new Prodi government.
The umpteenth alarm relating to the Italian economy came with the February figures showing that the overseas Balance of Trade deficit for the first two months of the year had reached 2,962,000,000 Euro. This is more than twice as much as it was for the first two months of 2005 (1,355,000,000 Euro).
If this trend is not stopped, this could lead to a loss of about 18,000,000,000 Euro in 2006 (36,000,000,000,000 Lire) the value of a Finance Law. A few years ago the overseas balance of Trade was positive and was at 35,000,000,000 Euro.

Then creative financing arrived.

When the numbers are so big, people tend to ignore them. But it’s important that the Italian people understand that this is a situation of pre-bankruptcy of the State. And everyone, including the information professionals need to understand that due weight should be given to informing citizens about these matters.

There’s no time for chattering now, nor for Byzantine Rites. The country needs a guide immediately. We need urgent measures. This is why I’m going to do all that’s in my power to accelerate the time frame to have Romano Prodi established as the President of the Council.

Posted by Antonio Di Pietro in Politics