22 July 2007

Italia dei Valori in favour of Forleo’s request

photo from corriere.it

Italia dei Valori will vote in Parliament in favour of the authorisation to use the telephone intercepts transmitted by the Judge of the Milan Tribunal, Clementina Forleo. If the magistracy believes that the telephone intercepts can be useful to the investigations, these must be made available to the magistrates.

I hope that the parliamentarians that are involved, that the parties from which they come, Ds and Forza Italia, do not oppose Forleo’s request. Such an attitude would be seen by the citizens as an admission of guilt. Parliamentarians are citizens who are more equal than the others, in the sense that, for their public responsibility, they need to give totally transparent account for their behaviour. It is intolerable to have one justice system that is valid for the citizens, but not for deputies and senators, who are their “hypothetical” representatives. Hypothetical because they have not been elected with direct preferences, thanks to the “pig-like” electoral law.

For the Bnl/Unipol/Rcs/Antonveneta cases it is by now evident that in the Summer of 2005, going beyond the effective responsibility of the parliamentarians concerned, there was a bipartisan plan to carve up a slice of the economy and of Italian information, outside the control of every rule of the market. This is what should be discussed and it is to be remembered that nothing would have come out without the telephone intercepts that a good chunk of the Parliament wants to be destroyed.

Posted by Antonio Di Pietro in Justice