“The political system is preparing, once more, to stop information. Information and the magistracy, the free magistracy, are an inseparable duo to guarantee freedom and democracy.
These are exactly the objectives that they have been trying to attack in recent weeks, preventing information from referring to what is happening in the secret rooms of power and preventing the magistracy from doing its duty in depth, even when it’s a matter of doing this with powerful people.
We are convinced that public opinion has the right to know everything that a politician or a powerful person does even when it’s not about facts that could be criminally relevant but when the facts have public relevance.
To affirm that everything that is not criminally relevant must not be made known to public opinion is a lie with short legs to hide the idea that the citizen should not know what is happening.
We are convinced that to sustain the necessity of reviewing the powers of the Public Prosecutor's Office, is another anti-democratic attempt and against the Constitution by trying to undermine the independence of the magistrates.
We cannot vote for a measure that says that only at the end of a trial is there a communication with the citizens to tell them what has happened.
I’m announcing the proposal of one of our amendments on this specific point, that is on the reviewing of the moment when the citizens can be informed of the events: for us, the appropriate moment is when the records are deposited.
Italia dei Valori does not accept to be simply a number in Parliament and in the Government: it is taking back its campaigning activity within the country system to encourage the citizens, by their action, to bring about a generational exchange of the political class as the only way to change things.”
PS: I invite you to participate in the meeting on Monday 25 June 2007 LA SCOMPARSA DELL'INFORMAZIONE {The disappearance of information}. The event will be in Milan at 8:45pm at the Camera del Lavoro, Corso di Porta Vittoria Camperio. As well as myself participants will be Oliviero Beha, Peter Gomez, Katerina Kort and Giovanni Pons.
Click here for information about the initiative: "La vera informazione garantisce la democrazia".{True information is a guarantee of democracy