"Since Friday is the last day of the election campaign, the Council of Ministers was held on Wednesday this week.
Before the Council, there was a meeting of CIPE, formed by certain Ministers who decide whether or not to finance, and thus to give the green light to, public works put forward by the various Ministries. Today I took the proposal for the Asti-Cuneo.
We resolved the agreement between public and private, the CIPE approved and therefore we have another step forward towards an infrastructure for which financing has been found and the rules of the game have been written clearly. In spite of those who accuse us of not doing infrastructure or of using unclear rules.
As you can see, we are working and acting in the interests of the citizens.
I want to talk about a draft law relating to Justice. One who has contributed to drafting it is the undersecretary Li Gotti, of Italia dei Valori. We have not merely said “no” but we have indicated the need for a series of basic regulations that therefore cost little, that can truly help the justice machinery.
Computing, the Internet, the system of notification and of recording the words, personnel for the offices, the use of practicing lawyers with the possibility to get experience and be effective help to the offices that are in need.
It’s a measure to which I add my signature willingly because it helps to unblock the current situation. Let’s hope that this time they don’t say that I’m always contrary: we are in favour of measures that help the justice system, and not those that obstruct it.
In relation to justice, allow me to talk about something that has nothing to do with the Council of Ministers but that is without a doubt provoking a certain tension in the majority.
I don’t intend to align myself with the preconceived defence of office and party lines. I’m referring to Visco and the Guardia di Finanza {Finance Police} and a fact that happened last year and that is causing discussions today at election time and that shows how it is used by the Centre Right.
Having accepted that however, the problem is different. Is the fact under discussion true of false?
Last year a few days from the installation of the government, the deputy Minister Visco, with a handwritten note, said to the General Command of the Guardia di Finanza to the Special Commander: “you must immediately transfer the Commander of the Regional Unit of Milan’s GdF, the Commander of the Income tax Regional Unit of the GdF, the Commander of the GdF Company and the Judicial Police Unit. GdF Commander”
The brains of the investigation unit of the GdF in Milan.
What were these people doing? They were collaborating in depth with the Milan Prosecutors, on such delicate investigations that fifteen days earlier they had received an award.
They were investigating Unipol, the Banca Antonveneta, the attempt to take over il Corriere and so on: the most delicate investigations in terms of finance and banking.
Why was there this request for transfers? “The request is not explained”, according to documents of the General Command at the Republic’s General Prosecutors’ Office in Milan.
In relation to this fact, we need to understand why the President of the Council was sent into Parliament to say that it was a normal happening.
It wasn’t. A normal procedure happens with the agreement of the interested parties, possibly after a series of proposals between the administrators and the people concerned.
They wanted these people to be sent away that day. The General Command, however, demonstrated its autonomy from politics and replied: “Explain why, or I will not do this” And that is what happened. Milan’s General Prosecutor of the Republic intervened and nothing was done.
After a year, during the elections, the affair has been brought up to be used. But the problem is completely political: The President of the Council was passed information to say that it was a normal happening. It could have been an error of judgement but it certainly was not normal.
In relation to all this I am saying that it was being used as an excuse and we know that, but we need to understand why they wanted to move these people. This is the question that I have asked and this is why they are putting me on trial once more. This is Italy."