29 May 2007

Local Elections

I want to thank the Italians who have given their vote to Italia dei Valori. In the Centre Left we are the only party to be rewarded by the voters and in certain cases our vote has been multiplied by 4. I believe that this has happened because of our commitment to face up to concrete topics like the development of the country and the security of citizens.
Two considerations on the local elections.
The first is that the party of abstentions is still stronger and the distance between the citizens and politics, on the right or on the left, is getting bigger, day by day.
The second is that the division between the North and South of the country, already evident in the national elections, is becoming more radicalized with autonomy pushes that could get out of control.
The government that I am part of has certain serious faults. It has not kept its promises in relation to justice, social reforms, election reforms. It has not had the courage that the voters were expecting. Basically it has not done politics.
After the Calderoli mess up, the Pardon, was the mess up of the Unione with the support of the Centre Right.
The Centre Left voters remembered that and stayed away from the polling stations. How many votes have we lost in using this law to protect administrators connected to the parties? Because that was the true objective of the pardon.
Recently there's been talk of the cost of politics all over. Italia dei Valori and specifically Franca Rame have been battling with this for years but in the past no other party has given us real support.
If we don't face up to this and other problems and if we don't change gear and direction for the country they will send us all home.

Posted by Antonio Di Pietro in Politics