8 March 2007

Electoral Law and Convicts

I haven’t forgotten. During the election campaign I inserted the following into my programme:
”Prevent the candidature for election to the Lower House, the Upper House and the European Parliament of people who have been convicted.”
Recently, we have been discussing the new electoral law. Whether to have a referendum, a broad agreement or agreements with variable geometry.
Even the experts have difficulty in getting an exact understanding of what is being discussed. I would like to start with the head of the problem and not the tail: with the parliamentarians, of the women and men who represent the citizens. People who are paid to act in the interest of the nation, not in their own interests , and certainly not in the interests of the parties to which they belong.

Two things above all must be guaranteed in the next elections:
- the representativeness of the parliamentarian who must be elected by the citizens and not inserted in a closed list, according to a party meritocracy.
- the morality of the parliamentarian who must not have been convicted. How can we present ourselves to the country with a platoon of convicts elected to Parliament?

Italia dei Valori has presented to both the Lower and the Upper House, a draft of a law to absolutely prevent convicted people from being present in the electoral lists. In relation to this, what’s needed is strong support from public opinion.. From all of you.

Posted by Antonio Di Pietro in Society