6 June 2006

Conflict of Interests

Many comments and many letters reminded me that during the election campaign I declared the elimination of the conflict of interests has to be a priority of the Centre Left Government. I have not forgotten that.
Citizens can get the impression that the problem is not a priority for the Government and perhaps not even a problem as such because in the many (too many) declarations of Ministers and undersecretaries the topic has not been covered.
Instead it’s the amnesty that they want. But did the citizens vote for the first action of this Government to be an Amnesty?
Let’s not kid ourselves.
If the Centre Left Government had declared BEFORE 9 April that it wanted an Amnesty it would have lost the elections in a big way.
But we, we politicians, to whom do we answer if it’s not to the voters? That’s enough of intrigues and tactic-isms.
The country needs renewal, courage, a step change from the past. Italia dei Valori in the coming weeks will present a draft law to resolve the problem of the conflict of interests. It’ll do this so that no longer can anyone govern, influence, and deceive the Italians people using the media for political propaganda.
I will keep you up to date on this site about the passage of this draft law, about who is supporting it and who is hindering it.

Posted by Antonio Di Pietro in Politics