Today I have talked about morality to il Corriere della Sera. I’m publishing my statements here.
If Mastella says that I am moral ballast, he’s right. I am honoured. It means that I am holding firm those who are in the majority coalition and want to do immoral things. My position is not that of supreme moralizer.
I am only a politician that has received a mandate. But I am beginning to realize that I am always alone when it is a question of defending morality.

It’s an issue that has not yet been tackled as it ought to be, not during the Berlusconi government nor with this centre left government. The fact that morality is still discussed, in fact, is the proof that it has not been resolved. Our majority is divided between those that want to tackle it and those that don’t.
It’s enough to look at Prodi’s statements about the pardon. First he said that it is a law that he didn’t hold with. Then that he would do it again. A schizophrenia dictated by internal contradictions.
The crux is not Clemente Mastella. He is just one who is used to lightly riding over pin pricks of consensus to get political gain. In his defence of the Fuda comma, on the time limits for accounting crimes, his attempt has been to ingratiate himself with Fuda and the myriads of local administrators called by the Accounting Court to give back what they have wasted through negligence or lack of preparation.
Mastella is counting on making election moneyboxes. A commercialization of politics that I leave to those that practise it. I have asked Prodi to arrange as soon as possible a programming meeting on the themes of justice and morality to decide what is to be done and above all how to do it.
As regards the Fuda comma I point out that it was I who asked for the intervention of the magistracy. Because it is not a political act: we find ourselves with falsehood in public acts. At the Council of Ministers held before the deposition of the maxi-amendment that comma was not there. Thus it was inserted after the approval.
And only a government official could have done something like that. The political person behind the move is to be discovered after that. Anyway I want the name of the public official who has betrayed Parliament and the Government.
And I want them to be sent away immediately. I have prevented the acknowledgement of defeat that they wanted to do with that comma. The premier agrees with me and demonstrated this by eliminating the comma at the last Council of Ministers. He made a decision in the field that does him honour. But the problem is with Mastella.
If he says that the Fuda time limit is right he is in opposition to the Premier and the Council of Ministers. He is offending them by suggesting that they are all being blackmailed by me. But it is he that is always positioning himself in blackmailing terms.
Let him leave the majority if he is not happy. Because I intend to stay and to stay vigilant in relation to morality.