8 June 2006

De Gregorio

Today I am embarrassed to write this letter. Senator De Gregorio has been elected as President of the Senate Defence Committee with the votes of the CDL. He says he has done this for patriotic reasons. I don’t believe this. He’s done it because it’s in his interests. Someone has written that I should choose my travelling companions better. It’s possible that they are right. But I would like to underline the fact that Italia dei Valori is the only party that does not accept in its ranks, parliamentarians of the Lower or Upper Houses with convictions and it is fighting for this to become the practice in the two Houses of Parliament. As regards De Gregorio, he has made a mistake and he has admitted that he made a mistake, but the majority of the Unione is 2 votes in the Senate.

Do we want to paralyse the country, go back to vote, all for the presidency of a committee, expelling De Gregorio from the party and from the coalition?

I don’t feel like it, out of respect for the emergency that this country must handle right now. De Gregorio has given me ample reassurances that I hope he will stick to, of loyal future conduct as a Senator and as the President of the Defence Committee in relation to the Unione and this right now is where I want to stand.

Posted by Antonio Di Pietro in Politics