29 August 2007

September 8: Clean Up Parliament

There’s a strange silence in the media, but perhaps not quite so strange, in regard to the collection of signatures for the popular initiative draft law that will take place throughout Italy on 8 September, the day that has been renamed V-Day and organised by Beppe Grillo. The popular law called “Clean up Parliament” has three points: the ineligibility of those who have been convicted to have a seat in Parliament; the impossibility of being elected for more than 2 terms of office, the direct election of candidates by the citizens.
Italia dei Valori has presented a parliamentary draft law with these same points and will support the V-Day initiative.
On 8 September I will sign for a “Clean Parliament” and I invite Italia dei Valori male and female voters to do so as well as every Italian citizen who wants to be represented by openly honest people
170,000 people have already joined up, among these there are groups from 120 Italian cities and 20 cities in the world who will take part in the event, but no newspaper or television has reported the news, except in a marginal way. It’s a further sign of the separateness of politics and information from civil society. There’s a preference to talk about the self-candidacy of this or that person and avoiding a true confrontation with the citizens.
Once more I invite you to participate by looking at the map (click here) to find your own city.

Posted by Antonio Di Pietro in Politics