16 July 2006

A pardon for those who corrupt

The citizens have chosen the Centre Left to finally turn over a new leaf after years in which the concept of justice has been declining until it has almost completely disappeared. Laws that are ad personam (made for a particular individual), amnesties, delegitimisation of the magistracy, exaltation of impunity.
Italian citizens that vote for us, and I feel that I can speak for all the Centre Left and not just Italia dei Valori, have done this also to change the state of affairs of guaranteeing impunity to those who corrupt and evade taxes, with Parliament turning a blind eye.
On this point, on this wish of the electorate, I believe that the secretaries of the parties in the Centre Left coalition and even Romano Prodi cannot but be in agreement.
If we are in Parliament, if we are Ministers, undersecretaries, presidents of the two Houses of Parliaments, it is only because the Italians, even with a tiny majority of the votes, wanted a change for a new Italy, a clean Italy.
And now what are we doing today? We are ignoring those who voted for us, we are occupying our comfortable armchairs and we are discussing a draft law about a pardon that would set free those who are responsible for corruption, crimes committed by public officials in accepting bribes or misappropriating money, and false accounting.These are people who never go to prison; this is more than a pardon to free up the prisons. To pardon these people would be a scandal! There are even party leaders, both of the Centre Left and Centre Right, waiting to be sentenced, for whom it would be possible to open up the doors of prison soon.
Italia dei Valori will vote against this draft law.
If it were to be approved, this law would be cheating the citizens. It is not a great route to take for a government that wants to last 5 years.

Posted by Antonio Di Pietro in Justice