I am publishing an open letter from Franca Rame to Romano Prodi about public officials who have been convicted.

“Dear President of the Council Romano Prodi,
we citizens ask you to put an end to an infamy that is undermining the efficiency and the honesty of the Public Administration
We ask you to affirm the pact between workers and companies also inside the public administration.
We ask that all the public officials who have been convicted be automatically sacked without the possibility of wriggle room. There’s a draft law in preparation, put forward within the majority, that would mean the sacking of only those public employees who have been convicted and sentenced to more than two years for corruption, sexual violence and paedophilia. In this way 98% of the convicts would stay in the Public Administration!
It’s an intolerable proposal and it is insulting to the citizens and to those public officials who are honest!
A public official represents the State. Therefore they must be people of maximum integrity. Today there are individuals like the former minister, De Lorenzo who are still on the payroll of the institutions. There are often teachers who have been convicted of paedophilia who are still in post!
Parliament is about to examine the new law on the sacking of convicted public officials. This is the moment for a battle that we can win. Sign our letter to Prodi. For information on the topics of the petition we invite you to watch the edition of Report that was broadcast on Sunday. If we want to re-establish a relationship between the citizens and the institutions it is essential that we start here.
We ask that the Public Administration insists on getting a payment to pay back the damage to their image that these types of crime create.
We ask furthermore, that together with this law on the sacking of public employees there is also approval of the proposed law presented by Franca Rame on the procedural code on judgements of the Court of Accounts, that annuls the amnesty established by the Berlusconi Government that allows convicted public officials to avoid making full repayments for the damage they have caused.
Finally we ask that the transfer of Luigi Magistro be revoked. He is the creator of the information control system against the tax frauds in Audit. Is it ever possible that once there is a public official who successfully fights corruption, he should be punished?
With the certainty that you will want to be committed to this “operation of cleanliness and justice” by giving a sign that is loud and clear to the country, we greet you cordially.”
Franca Rame

To sign up to this appeal:
www.francarame.it