9 September 2007

My signature for V-Day

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Today I took off the jacket I wear as a Minister and I put on my clothes as a citizen, because I feel the need to support an initiative that is a draft law by popular initiative. This initiative aims to shake Parliament with a wave of direct democracy so that it can understand that it can no longer act as if it didn't know anything about democracy!
Parliament says that it is not OK for convicts to stay in Parliament, but it’s not passing the laws to put them out. So it’s good that the citizens are taking action.
I, as a Minister and as the leader of a party, Italia dei Valori, I have already set this draft law before Parliament about 10 times. Everyone tells me “what a great draft law” and then they put it away in the filing cabinet. So perhaps it’s right to be really united with this multitude of good people, because unity is strength, but that is a unity with a lower case “u” so as to not make it seem like a party. The unity of the citizens with great willingness just to be clear, a union that can change the faces of those who are doing politics and not just in a formal way and with acronyms.

Posted by Antonio Di Pietro in Politics