October 31, 2007

The issue of the G8 Conference in Genoa

I have seen a lot of comments on my blog, many of which are negative, about the fact that Italia dei Valori has not given its support to the Parliamentary Committee of Enquiry to examine what happened at the G8 Summit in Genoa in 2001.
Before we start: we are in favour of a Committee of Enquiry on this issue but on the condition that there is an investigation of all the facts. There are two parts: the behaviour of the demonstrators and the behaviour of the Police.
No-global demonstrators took to the streets to demonstrate against the powerful of this Earth and were legitimately exercising their right to do so. However, some did not limit themselves to demonstrate and smashed shop windows, set fire to cars, and attacked the police. Thus a fraction of them committed serious crimes for which the Prosecution of the Republic and the judges are taking action, in fact they have already given varying years of prison sentences. The facts are already known.
It is also known, unfortunately and for certain aspects, more serious, the fact that Police Forces, to find out who were the guilty ones did not carry out a judicial police investigation there and then but they imprisoned some people in a police station and they beat them up, causing injuries, thus behaving in a way that is worse than the others.
This is a nasty story that needs further investigation first of all in a judicial setting, and the judges are already dealing with this: even the police officers who are accused of these crimes are on trial.
Today in Parliament, what did they want to do? A Committee of Enquiry limited to examining the behaviour of the Police. What sort of Committee of Enquiry is that?
An enquiry about the facts of the G8 happening must be done taking into account the behaviour of all those who were involved: the errors, the abuses, the omissions and the violence committed by all. Then it will be possible to reconstruct a page in History based on truth.
This is why we, in Italia dei Valori cannot agree to the creation of a committee to investigate only a part of the matter.
What we have proposed is a Committee of Enquiry on the abuses against the right to demonstrate by some of the demonstrators – not all of them – because those who respected the law are to be respected – and of some police officers - not all of them – because those who respected the law are to be respected. Those who abused their position should be punished.
There must be a search for the truth: a result that is falsified from the outset will never be positive.
I am sorry that, one more time, only the part of the information that is of interest is that that is referred.
Italia dei Valori is not against the Committee of Enquiry on the G8: it is against the exploitation of the Committee.

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October 30, 2007

The Package on Security

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The Council of Ministers is about to approve an important measure to tackle criminality, the every day stuff of the poor wretch who mugs an old lady, as well as the organised criminality or that derived from terrorism.
There’ll also be regulations passed to reform the criminal proceedings so as to make trials faster so that it will be difficult to get off scot-free with the “prescrizione” {time limit for a trial}. Just remember the famous ex-Cirielli law that halves the trial times, but doesn’t halve the trial activity, just the time limit for concluding a trial.
Today the citizen feels a sense of insecurity and is living through the drama of criminality. As you know, when important decisions are being taken for the country, they can be put into action by means of a draft law or by a legal decree. The legal decree is an urgent measure by the Government that becomes active immediately and is then ratified by Parliament. On the other hand, the draft law is a proposal that first has to be discussed by Parliament, and it has a much longer time frame.
I’ll explain what this so-called “Security Package” is all about, so that you can see why I think it should be put into action immediately with a decree.
There are four draft laws:
the first package is about measures relating to the fight against organised crime ;
the second package is about measures relating to the fight against terrorism ;
the third is about urban safety ;
the last is about the so-called “certainty of the penalty”, and especially the reform of the criminal code in relation to crimes that are particularly alarming.
Since the citizens need safety straight away, I say that this draft law, that I support, at least for the most important part, must be approved with a decree.
I’m not just saying this to you: I’ve already said that to the President of the Council and to the Minister of the Interior in a letter dated 25 October in which I say that I give my full support to the package and I ask for it to approved with a decree, at least for the most important topics, for example, the database of fingerprints for immigrants coming into italy or the DNA database for those who commit serious crime. Measures that I think would be appropriate to extend to Italians: for those who have nothing to hide, I can’t see problems of privacy.
I’ve also asked the President of the Council and the entire Council of Ministers that certain regulations should be inserted into this package like the elimination of the ex-Cirielli or the serving of the sentence after the first verdict: it often happens that hardened criminals, paedophiles, and rapists are released because the trial is not over in time. This is not right.
The judge must be given the possibility to apply the sentence after the first trial, if there is overwhelming proof.
I have also asked for the review of false accounting. If it’s possible with this stuff to ask for 3 years in prison for the windscreen cleaners we can’t just punish with a fine one who has stolen millions or billions of Euro.
What is written down is clear.
Let it be clear, I am not giving the government an ultimatum.
I am giving an indication, but these are measures that are so important, that rather than not do them, it’s better to approve them with a legal decree. I’m not against these measures that in fact I am backing to the full and I would like them to come into affect immediately.
If that doesn’t happen, my commitment and that of Italia dei Valori is that discussions in Parliament start as soon as possible and that the package becomes law as soon as possible.”

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Messina Bridge: end of story

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This is a special meeting with you but not to talk about the usual Council of Ministers. I want to explain to you the issue of the Bridge over the Straits of Messina. I believe that this week there has not been anything worse than the disinformation that has been put about.
I want to talk to you with the documents in my hand.
The message that has come across is that Di Pietro wants to do the Bridge and for this reason he has risked the fall of the government. That he has taken up a position against everyone and everything and that he even wants to keep in existence a massive organisation full of waste and who knows what else. But whenever would I have done that?!
The story is told like that because they don’t want to say how things really are: some people in the extreme Left want to destroy everything while spending ten times as much to reach the result that has already been achieved.
Let’s take things in order: we have said that we are not doing the bridge over the Straits and that it is not to be done. We have said at the start of this Parliament that the money that the Centre Right had put aside for this work would be used to do other more urgent work in Sicily and in Calabria.
With the documents in my hand: there’s my signature and the signature of di Loiero. For Calabria, with the money for the bridge, we are doing two stretches of the State Road 106 called the Jonica.
With the documents in my hand: there’s the signature of the Minister of Infrastructure and of the President of the Region of Sicily, Cuffaro, the one who is always talking about the Bridge. Even he has signed up to this agreement. The funds are going to be used for the metro in Palermo, Catania and Messina. It’s already been decided.
This amendment presented to eliminate the Stretto di Messina company is useless, because the money has already been channeled into more urgent things: the metro in Sicily and the Jonica State road in Calabria.
Furthermore, they have said that it’s necessary to eliminate the unwieldy organisation of the Stretto di Messina company because it wastes money. That’s already been done! I’ve already made arrangements for the Stretto di Messina company: an arrangement that eliminates every outlying office and the transfer of the head office to the premises of the office of public works, to my Ministry or the premises of ANAS, at a cost of zero Euro. Apart from a maximum of 5 essential people, all the personnel will go. The Board of Directors will be reduced to zero, and it will be substituted with a single administrator who is the president of ANAS who will not be paid.
The elimination of all the consultants has also been arranged. This company will no longer be spending anything.
So explain to me the show seen in the Senate the other evening, to make the Italians believe that the company has to be wound up and the law to construct the bridge has to be eliminated? We’ve done it already.
Looking at the documentation, what did the amendment say? That even the law dated 1971 needs overturning. The one that set out the construction of the bridge. If this law is revoked, automatically it’d be necessary to give the company that won the contract 271 million euro and the Stretto di Messina company, that today is worth 150 million euro, would be wiped out. If this law is overturned, as set out in the amendment, it would be necessary to make a penalty payment to all the companies involved. That is 280-300 million in damages. This little joke would have cost about 500 million euro, to get the result that I have already achieved.
I do not want to do the bridge over the Straits, but as a person who can do accounts, I don’t want to spend any more money. These people would have had us spend a further 400-500 million euro. What’s more, their amendment says: “Set up an agency for the development of logistics in the area of the Straits of Messina”.
I don’t understand: another unwieldy organisation? What is the agency for the development of the area of the Straits of Messina? There are already offices for development: there’s the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Infrastructure, the Region of Calabria and its transport unit… but is it possible that every time we have to have a company to employ another hundred employees like the Stretto di Messina company?
What’s the point? To eliminate an unwieldy organisation of the Centre right to set up one for the Centre Left.
Dear gentlemen of the press, explain things as they are. Dear gentlemen of politics, don’t take advantage of the good faith of the citizens by making them believe that I want to waste money when it yourselves that want to do that.
Having explained all this in detail, I am closing this matter as I am now convinced that I have explained it carefully to the citizens. To the others, the ones who are deaf, my words do not matter.
I’m attaching the text of the amendment that Italia dei Valori has presented. Read the text.

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October 27, 2007

The former Messina Bridge

The affairs relating to the Stretto Messina company, with all the polemics that have come out, even on this blog, deserve more explanation.
First of all it seems appropriate to start off with what we have done. With what we have already done, before all this case came about, because this demonstrates that with the amendment for the dissolution of the company, there was a wish to arrive at a result that in reality we have already achieved. Basically, there was a wish to simply “renounce on commitments”.
Last year we already decided that the Bridge is not to be constructed and the money already set aside for that is being used to start creating more urgent projects in Sicily and Calabria.
In Calabria the money set aside for the bridge is being used to make more efficient the system where the boats come alongside at Villa San Giovanni, the work on the stretch Sibari-Roseto on the Jonica (State Road number106), the planning of the stretch Cotono-Cariati of the same road and the planning of the Reggio Calabria ring road. In Sicily we are financing the metro systems of Palermo, Catania and Messina as well as the completion of the Agrigento-Caltanisetta road.
There wasn’t anything more to be decided for the non-construction of the Bridge and there still isn’t, given that everything has already been decided.
Then it will be asked why the Stretto Messina company is still existing. I have no intention to keep it in existence. It’s even true that I have proposed an amendment that would see it merge with Anas. This is an amendment that I will put forward again when the framework law goes to be examined by the Chamber of Deputies. In the Senate, this was not accepted, because they don’t want Anas to have to deal with movement in the Straits, but they want a phantom agency, the umpteenth useless entity, good for cultivating clients and for wasting resources.
In any case, it’s a good opportunity to say that I have organised an immediate total thinning out of the Stretto Messina company. The number of employees will go from 100 to no more than 5 people. The Board of Directors will be replaced by a single administrator who will get no payment.
These are the facts. As you can see, it’s not a matter of keeping an unwieldy structure, the resources available are being used efficiently, the value generated by the company over these few years is being safeguarded and there’s no need to pay hundreds of millions of Euro in penalties. We would have had to do that if we had given in to the “ideological uproar” of certain parliamentarians of the Far Left. All that has achieved the aim of not constructing the Bridge.
PS. I’m attaching the letter that I wrote to the Head of the Stretto di Messina s.p.a. company, the engineer. Pietro CIUCCI.

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October 25, 2007

The Bridge over the Straits of Messina

The money set aside to build the bridge over the Straits of Messina will be used to construct metro lines and infrastructure in Sicily.
Anyone who states that I have to come to terms with the fact that Sicily and Italy don’t need a bridge over the Straits of Messina, giving the idea that I want this to be constructed, either aren’t familiar with the documents, and that is serious, or they are in bad faith, and that is even more serious, especially if certain positions are coming from the President of the Legambiente {Environmental Group}

To those who want the facts, I remind them that we have de-financed the bridge project, so as to finance that railway and metro work in Sicily and we are the first to know the need for that. About a billion euro was set aside for the Region to be used on the Bridge and this money has now got a final destination, with a written agreement a few weeks ago for the metro in Palermo, Catania and Messina and the connection between Agrigento and Caltanissetta.

All this has nothing to do with the ideological uproar to get rid of what we have today, a company that on its own represents a value of 150 million Euro.
The roughly 500 million Euro that we would have wasted by closing the company and paying the penalties laid down, can be put to better use by doing this construction work that everyone says they want to do and that we are working towards doing.

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October 24, 2007

The Law is not equal for everyone

In Italy, information is used to keep the existing powers in place.
This statement can appear to be taken for granted, especially if it’s myself or Italia dei Valori saying it, as for some time we have been battling to get freedom of information.
The media have exploited my request to give back the “Why Not” investigation to De Magistris and have transformed it into a contest between myself and the Minister of Justice. The contest however is between the whole country and this political class that doesn’t want to let itself be judged.
Apart from a few exceptions, everyone in the Centre Left and the Centre Right is in agreement.
If De Magistris’s investigation had been in relation to common or garden citizens and not to politicians, would there have been the request to transfer De Magistris? The continual leaking of news and the news being published in the newspapers? And finally the transfer of the investigation documents to the Rome Prosecutor? The response can only be negative.
”Why Not” involves the President of the Council in person and the Minister of Justice in person, in an affair connected to the flow of thousands of millions of Euro of European funds in Calabria. De Magistris must take it to its conclusion or the Government will be really delegitimised.

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October 23, 2007

Before it’s too late

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“Today we have to do some important and sensitive reflecting on our country’s State based on the rule of law and on the democratic position of our country.
We have to do it because once more today’s newspapers are making out that it’s bickering between Di Pietro and Mastella; a political issue that I have raised and that with rash indecency, my colleague is trying to overturn by covering me with insults and abuse.
Before we start, Mastella is getting cross with me saying that I have done who knows what that is barely transparent in my past life. On the facts that relate to me, it’s good to repeat once more that even though I was put under investigation, I resigned, first as a magistrate and then as a minister and I presented myself to my judge to be judged. The judge acquitted me and those who accused me, he convicted of defamation and calumny. This is my personal story. It is finished. There’s no more to say on that.
This is not the issue, even if it were the devil in the situation, the issue is the Catanzaro investigation being carried out against a political class and the reaction to this action to remove the investigation from the hands of that judge. We have to give a response to this question.
What are we talking about? It happened that in the last few months, a judge who up until that moment was hardly known, has put together an investigation called “Poseidone” relating to payments, even European, financing that is not transparent and relationships between politics and business.
In this investigation a Forza Italia parliamentarian called Pittelli was involved as well as even people who were close to the Chief Prosecutor of Catanzaro. Well in a nut shell, this investigation was removed from the hands of the judge responsible for it.
Mean while, the same judge set up the “Why not” investigation and that too was in relation to public contributions and “short cuts” to purchase these funds and for giving and receiving favours.
In the course of this investigation, finishing up under investigation were the President of the Council, Romano Prodi and the Minister of Justice, Clemente Mastella.
I don’t think there is anything that requires a greater duty than when a magistrate is investigating important politicians, to allow the magistrate to go ahead and do his job.
However a transfer procedure was activated for him by the very same Minister of Justice. The image that comes out is that of a caste that does not want to be judged, that a power that rejects the State based on the rule of law and the law that is equal for everyone, of a magistracy that is delegitimised each time it tries to do its duty. Was this not Berlusconi’s policy?
Was this not the reason why we asked the Italians to vote for us? To do a judicial policy that is the complete opposite of this? We started off with the Great Pardon and we finish up with the delegitimisation of the magistrates.
They will say that it’s all OK, in accordance with the law. Yes, it’s all OK. It was Morvillo, the brother-in-law of Falcone who said that the guilt of the attack on the judge was of the “professionals of all the documents are in order”.
Professionals who put in place acts that surely could be put in place, but that all together kill the State based on the rule of law and at times, people like Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino. Destabilisation, isolation, delegitimisation lead to this.
I have asked something of the President of the Council, of the Council of Ministers, of Parliament. I have asked it as a serving Minister and as the Leader of a Party that is keeping this majority on its feet: to ask one self what kind of judicial policy we want to have in this country. Do we want to have a public and transparent discussion rather than these sudden actions that end up being blows to the State based on the rule of law, even if they are not true coup d’états.
I want to bring to the attention the need for the reform of the criminal process: few crimes but with the penalty assured. A reform of the criminal procedures: the verdict must be arrived at in a third of the time that it is today. A financial reform of the office structures: grouping together of the judicial areas, computerized management of the procedures, of the on going positions, of the judicial chancellery, of the relationships between the police and the magistracy. A structure that allows the Justice System to function better.
This has not been discussed neither by the previous government nor by the present one. Italia dei Valori asks that attention should be given on these issues before it’s too late and that is why we have decided to launch a national campaign of information from the end of this week, with a demonstration to ask if a the State based on the Rule of Law is finished, to discuss once and for all on the people entitled, capable and willing to carry out a new judicial policy for this Country.
I want to know if the Minister of Justice wants this new policy or if he is reduced to be a "long hand" that wants to block investigations.
This weekend we call everyone for a demonstration in defense of Justice, for a State based on the Rule of Law and against the barbaric procedure of prevarication against judges who do their duty.
Before it is too late. Before "professionals of papers in order" becomes guilty of some heavy-handed in order puts the life of a magistrate.

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October 22, 2007

The end of the State based on the Rule of Law

The Minister of Justice cannot think he can escape from his political responsibilities by shoveling muck and insults onto me (see the ANSA.it article), for facts anyway that resulted in the condemnation of those who defamed me. With his untimely and inappropriate disciplinary action against the magistrate De Magistris, he has provoked a political and judicial short circuit that has in turn provoked the crash of the credibility of the institutions that risks to topple the whole government.
I know full well that with the Prosecutor General’s action of moving up the investigation, the criminal investigation will continue its work, but this is not the point. The problem is that that “avocazione” {action of claiming a task by one who is higher up in the hierarchy} has been caused exactly by the one who could have been put under investigation by the magistrate who has been pushed aside.
What emerges from the battle that the Minister of Justice has knowingly provoked in relation to the magistrate who has put him under investigation is the image of a political class which using the example of the Berlusconi Government, does not want to be judged and so invent anything and everything to stop the magistrates from doing their duty.
Once more the impression is given, whether or not it is true, that those whose turn it is to be in power, look for, and manage to find, short cuts to eliminate magistrates who are inconvenient and to undermine the independence of the magistracy.
There is the impression that the powerful, and only them, are able to move mechanisms that allow them to choose the magistrate that is obliging and to remove from the scene those who do not play their game. This is a political fact of extreme seriousness in which there is the involvement not only of the Minister of Justice but the whole Government starting with the President of the Council.
Romano Prodi is now called upon to take on a delicate act of responsibility in relation to the opportunity of allowing the person at the head of the justice system, the Minister of Justice, to keep the role as he is the one who took the disciplinary action against the magistrate who has put him under investigation.
We are at a cross roads that if it is not tackled straight away and with determination, will topple us all because we are risking endangering the State based on the rule of law, as certain authoritative observers have stated and the majority of the general public.

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October 21, 2007

Justice at the end of the line

Today there was a severe blow to the credibility of the Institutions, to the Justice System, and even to this Government.
I respect a priori the judicial decisions taken by De Magistris, and also those taken by the General Prosecutor who transferred the investigation to a higher authority, as laid down in case there are motives of incompatibility.
De Magistris is in the position of one who is carrying out investigations, and at the same time, is under disciplinary measures because of people about whom he is carrying out judicial action.
The issue is not that of the measures taken by the General Prosecutor, but in the reasons that come before that, that brought it about. Because if it is true, and it is, that De Magistris has an ongoing investigation in relation to political personalities, including the President of the Council and the Minister of Justice himself, placing him under investigation should have been avoided.
Every time that a magistrate tries to shed light on behaviour that relates to the strong powers, his activity is examined under the microscope, to such a point that he himself is under investigation.
This is an expedient to delegitimise the magistracy and put them off the piste.
It’s an action that is set up in advance with the intention of blocking anyone who carries out an action in the criminal justice system.
The State based on the rule of law ends at that moment when the independence of the magistracy is undermined.
These are bitter words for me to say: this Government is arriving at the end of the line, from a political and judicial view point it has failed by ignoring the requests of the electorate for the rule of law.
The crafty thinking that has caused the “avocazione” {transfer to a higher authority} of De Magistris's investigation will be paid for dearly by the whole of the Centre Left.

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October 20, 2007

Don’t Gag the Internet

I am receiving so many emails and comments criticizing the draft bill ”New discipline for publishing and delegating to the Government for the release of a unified text about the reorganisation of legislation in the publishing sector”.
To be clear: the draft law was not discussed in the meeting of the Council of Ministers on 12 October because it was presented as a normal routine measure.
I read the text today for the first time and my opinion is that it should be blocked immediately. This draft law would in fact put a cloak over the Internet in Italy and would probably bring about its ending.
It’s a liberty-killing law and it is against the bloggers who each day publish articles that are never reported by newspapers and the TV.
I am part of the government and I accept my responsibility for not having intercepted the draft law, but as far as I am concerned this law will never pass, even at the cost of raising the issue of the support given by Italia dei Valori to the Government.

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October 19, 2007

Thank you for your trust in me

Repubblica.it has published the results of a survey about trust in Ministers and in the main political parties in Italy. I am citing the survey to say thanks to those who gave me the top position as a Minister and those who gave Italia dei Valori the top position as a party. I would like to point out that it has not been subsequently reported by any other means of communication after that.
The survey looks at important information for the Government and for the parties, but it has been ignored by the media. That fact no longer surprises me. Newspapers and TV are only partially free in Italy.
Confirmation of this is given by a recent research report from “Reporters Without Borders”: in the classification about the freedom of information, Italy comes at just 35th position in the world, landing up between Bosnia Herzegovina and Macedonia and below all the countries of the “old continent”. The issue of real information is still today the priority for the country. But unfortunately this is not yet the priority for the government and it is even less than ever for the opposition under the leadership of Berlusconi who has concessions for the radio and TV frequencies in an obvious situation of conflict of interests.

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October 17, 2007

A slightly more beautiful and civilised Italy

On 4 October I was the only Minister to meet with Sig. Giuseppe Invernizzi, a member of the delegation and Director of Apa di Como e Lecco. At that time Sig. Invernizzi told me about the issue of the sale to the public of unprocessed milk direct from the producers. (article ; video)
A tiny point used as an excuse concerning the measurement of the amount supplied that would have brought about the closure of the direct selling by many milk producers.
I’m publishing Sig. Invernizzi’s letter. He and all the others in the sector that he is representing have my best wishes for the development of this initiative.

Dear Ministro Di Pietro,

At last, now that the Framework Law has been approved by the Council of Ministers at their meeting on 12 October, the automatic distributors of liquid milk have been excluded from the regulations relating to metric measurements.
Common sense and reasonableness have won out against an absurd bureaucratic stumbling block. Today our country of Italy is slightly more beautiful and civilised and the consumers are nearer to the producers. Small volumes of liquid milk will be sold directly to the consumer with an indication of a minimum “guaranteed quantity”. The farmer can give even more milk in abundance, without having to pay the penalty designed for machines that have metric measures. This is exactly the same as happens in Switzerland and in Austria.
I’m writing this letter so that I personally can offer you my thanks and so that I can thank you in the name of the Consorzio Tutela Latte Crudo {Unprocessed Milk Protection Consortium} as well as on behalf of all our consumers who in tens of thousands, with great enthusiasm, have signed the petition to Minister Bersani
To demonstrate the gratitude of the farmers in relation to all those who have contributed to this great result, the Consorzio Tutela Latte Crudo is announcing that on 11 November, the feast of St Martin, there’ll be a “Great National Festival of Fresh Milk” which will be celebrated at all the milk distribution points, on the farms and in the streets and squares.
Furthermore, just as St Martin cut his cloak in 2 to share the cold with the one who was worse off than him, we will cut the price of milk by half: on that day of the festival, the consumers will be able to buy 2 litres of milk for just one Euro.

Thanking you once more. Best wishes.”
Giuseppe Invernizzi
Secretary of the Consorzio Tutela Latte Crudo

On Friday 12 October the government approved the outline for the framework law that alters the regulations about measuring instruments so as to liberalise the commercialization of the automatic distributors for the sale of milk direct to the consumers.

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October 16, 2007

Council of Ministers. The Welfare Protocol

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”As well as an account of last Friday’s meeting of the Cabinet, a reflection on the record numbers coming to vote the following day to create the Partito Democratico {Democratic Party} and the victory, that has been announced of Walter Veltroni. There was I believe, a large number of citizens who decided to go and choose the delegates for this new party.
Let’s take things in turn. At last Friday’s Cabinet meeting, no laws were approved but the main discussion was on two matters: one to postpone until the next Cabinet meeting the issue of a package relating to security. I am happy that the matter was dealt with, I agree that the regulations under discussion should be approved as soon as possible and I agree that the Government should put forward its package and that Parliament should add regulations about security and about the good functioning of the machinery of Justice. It’s no use arresting people one evening and releasing them the next morning. We in Italia dei Valori and myself as Minister, intend to take action and intervene in a “Di Pietro way” because I believe that it’s time to put an end to the period of the pretend-goody-goodies, of those who think that it’s always the fault of society when someone acts unlawfully and commits crime.
On the issue of welfare, there was an air of satisfaction and a feeling of a shared position in the Cabinet. The Ministers that abstained or voted with reservations, those on the extreme left, the Comunisti Italiani, Verdi, Rifondazione comunista and Sinistra Democratica, {the Italian Communists, the Greens, the Refounded Communists and the Democratic Left}, I felt did so more from an established position than from conviction. I have the impression that as regards the welfare package there was a substantial agreement reached, and I am in favour of that. I believe that today those who play the part of being dissatisfied are doing so to please those who are members of this or the other Trades Union or corporation.
This weekend the Partito Democratico has been formed and its leader and set of directors have been appointed.
I believe that it is a fact that is democratically important. When a party creates its leaders with the help of the votes of three million people, that should be respected.
But this, dear Veltroni, shows us that it is not politics that is winning in respect of anti-politics, as you said. By saying that you have already started off badly. When three million people vote for the PD. When 500,000 people participate in the demonstration of the Alleanza Nazionale. When one and a half million people participate in V-Day for a politics that is more transparent , for the reduction of the costs, for limiting who can be a candidate. It’s not possible to talk about politics in relation to yourself and anti-politics in relation to the others. It’s all politics. It shows that the citizens want to do politics directly, to choose their own candidates and to send home those by whom they have been taken for a ride.
It’s not a matter of politics or anti-politics. Yesterday there was a continuation in the wish of the citizens to be heard.
Today, the day after the birth of the Partito Democratico, we of Italia dei Valori ask you to give us some responses straight away: What do you want to do now? A type of politics that is liberal and in solidarity or like antiquated communists offering assistance and Stalinist direction? What do you want to do at a practical level to give security to the citizens in terms of the fight against widespread criminality, to offer a fair distribution of the tax system, and in the face of precariousness?
We are ready to have an open dialogue with the PD, a dialogue that is practical, offering participation, responsible. However, we need to know that this time it’s not a question of ecumenism at all costs by putting together a bit of everything just to get to 51%. The next coalition must be the one that governs and it must be founded on a programme, and thus it cannot be this same coalition.
With this in mind, we of Italia dei Valori state that we respect yesterday’s vote, that we admire the democratic participation of these millions of citizens, that we want to give them a positive response in terms of participating with them in the construction of the new programme and that we hope that the leader of the PD can rise to the hopes of the citizens, in such a way that we hope we too will be able to in this constructive and uniting dialogue.”

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October 14, 2007

Immigration and Criminality

Immigration is becoming a social problem. There are two particular elements that have determined this situation: the Great Pardon that released from prison at least 30,000 people, many of whom were foreigners, and the entry of some Eastern countries into the European Community
Hurriedly in August 2006, the Great Pardon was voted for by most people in Parliament, for the so-called prison emergency. The result is that after a year the prisons are full once more and in the meantime crimes, thefts, rapes, and homicides have been committed that could have been avoided.
It must be remembered that the Great Pardon was done to keep public administrators, and financiers from prison. No recovery action has been taken for the former detainees.

In relation to the Eastern countries, Romania needs particular attention: it would have been possible to take different action, to have a moratorium as other European States have done. In Romania there are two million Roma people, tens of thousands of them have already come into Italy. This must be stopped.
The country is not able to welcome more. Today even the good “buonisti”, because of the exasperation of the citizens, start to become sheriffs. The most vulnerable part of the population find that they have to live with imported daily criminality.
The problem can no longer be put off. In Italy only those who have a regular job must enter, otherwise we’ll get a new racism of unpredictable consequences. We have got to the paradoxical situation of exporting capital for investment in Romania and of importing their unemployed.

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October 13, 2007

Work, Precariousness, Future

Another topic dealt with at Vasto was the labour market.

“There are about five and a half million precarious workers, most of whom are young. They cannot plan their future, make families or take out mortgages.
The number is going up – as is the number of the many graduates who are fleeing abroad. Social security for these people is non existent. If they get a pension, it’ll be at survival levels.
Law number 30 should be revised in favour of workers. It’s not OK that certain companies are made up almost entirely of precarious workers simply so that they can make use of tax benefits. Nor is it acceptable that the precarious workers earn a lot less than the employees.
Work for young people is a national problem. It’s got social urgency. Added to this is the scourge of those killed at work. Every day there are new deaths because of the lack of safety regulations. It’s truly a war.
The State must intervene by increasing the severity of the penalties with a true and efficient inspection service. Not just a paper service as often happens now. Anyone causing the death of a worker, often the family breadwinner, because of inattention or the lack of investment in safety, must pay the price even with the closing down of the company.
A necessary part of the development of the country is the creation of a real integration between the companies and the universities, as happens for example in the United States. Innovation, research and the world of work must be together in synergy triggered off by precise initiatives and incentives from the State and the Regions. These would lead to the creation of new industrial complexes.
Furthermore, we need the widespread use of broadband, and the freeing up of Wi-Max as the basis for the development of the country. Every day that passes we are getting further away from the Europe that counts.
Whereas a Danish or English child at the elementary school is studying with an Internet connection, with us they have to have a backpack filled with 10 Kilos of books and they are memorizing multiplication tables instead of being obliged to learn English."

PS. An extract of my speech at Vasto is published on the portal of Italia dei Valori.

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October 12, 2007

The costs of Politics

At Vasto I dealt with the costs of politics. I’m publishing the presentation here.

"The costs of politics have been at the centre of discussions in the last few weeks. It’s an important topic, but it’s basically marginal and irrelevant.
The real topic of debate must be not the costs but the quality of politics, the results of politics and the capacity to interpret the needs of the citizens and to apply the programme that has been presented at the elections.
If these points are not achieved, politics can cost even one euro but it’s useless. In the country there is an obvious impatience in relation to the inability of the politicians to get concrete results and their tendency to close up like a hedgehog when faced with new social phenomena.
The citizen’s perception is that the politicians are in a closed circle of an elite to which anything is allowed, quite separate from the life of society, and not to be judged by the magistracy.
It has been written that on coming out of Montecitorio, the deputies prefer not to be recognised and hope to be considered lawyers or officials of the House so as to avoid insults.

What’s the next stage? I have signed Grillo’s proposal for the popular law so as not to have any more convicted parliamentarians, not to have people elected to Parliament for more than two terms of office and the direct preference by the electors. I am the only party leader and the only Minister to have signed.
In the days that followed, Grillo and a million and a half people went out into the streets and squares to give a civil expression to their discontent. They have been criminalized by the parties and by the media of the parties including the RAI and Mediaset. For a month there’s been a lot of nonsense talked about anti-politics, but the real anti-politics is being done by Parliament.
In order to survive, the system needs profound reforms. The costs of the parliamentarians are crumbs in relation to the thousands of useless organisations, the Provinces, the mountain communities, the more than 8,000 towns, the collusion between criminality and local politicians through the use of kick-backs, the roughly four million employees of the State. The public debt is continually increasing, the interest that we pay on the debt every year stops us from having social policies, infrastructure, schools, hospitals, social security and research.
Sooner or later we need to realize this so that we don’t end up in the abyss. There has to be a drastic reduction in spending at the same time as renewed efficiency of the State."

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October 11, 2007

The Internet Party

The Incontro dei Valori at Vasto finished on Sunday 7 October.
I tackled certain topics that I want to pick up and publish on the blog. The first is the Internet Party.
”The Internet Party is the future organizational structure for Italia dei Valori. The Internet allows for a direct relationship between the citizens and the elected people, between those who benefit from administration and those who administrate.
Direct democracy, possible thanks to the Internet with the active participation of the citizens, creates a new political scenario in which the act of delegation that happens at the moment of voting is substituted by daily control in the application of the programme.
Changes in information have always produced profound modifications in the social and political context. This is what is happening with the Internet.
Communication and interaction with the citizens, a trim organisation that operates effectively and in real time. This is what the party wants to offer. To be continuously relating to its members with an exchange of proposals. These are some Italia dei Valori’s objectives in making use of the Internet in its organisation.

Italia dei Valori has been operating blogs for some time. One of these is www.antoniodipietro.it. The purpose is to inform and interact with the citizens. The party has an important presence in Second Life. There’s a weekly video published on YouTube concerning the meetings of the Council of Ministers. From today it has a portal that is designed to interact with the citizens: www.italiadeivalori.it.
For the first time in Italy, the conference at Vasto uses video to broadcast the activity using free video streaming software called Stickam. Thanks to this software, by going to the blog, you can follow the meeting live wherever you are in the world.
The Internet is moving the weight of politics from the capital to the ideas. The costs of politics will tend to decrease naturally over time because of the Internet. Ideas will come to the fore."

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October 09, 2007

Veltroni’s commitments

Veltroni states that I say “Untrue things to go on TV” in relation to my declarations about his absence from the Italia dei Valori Conference at Vasto.
Veltroni adds: “I met up with Di Pietro five days before the meeting at Vasto, while we were on the plane coming back from Bergamo. I told him I wouldn’t be able to attend, because other candidates for the leadership of the PD told me that they were not going and it seemed to me at that point that it wasn’t a good moment for me to go.”
They taught me while I was just a child to distinguish between words and facts. What counts are the facts. And the facts are that the future leader of the Partito Democratico refused to participate at the conference at Vasto.
It was a legitimate decision for him to make. A political decision. Veltroni took on the political responsibility. First he said yes and then he said no to go to an exhibition.
Veltroni accuses me of saying what is untrue but it’s he that is not speaking the truth. This is not a good start for the future Partito Democratico
Why did Veltroni not come, to avoid a public confrontation with Bindi and Letta, because of my supporting V-Day?
So that he could participate, I moved the meeting with the PD candidates many times, obliging some of them to change their plans.

He is the only one to have declined my invitation after having accepted it.

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October 07, 2007

2nd Incontro dei Valori: today 7 October

Third and final day of this second Incontro Nazionale dei Valori here at Vasto.
In the next few days I will publish the speeches and the film clips of the most important moments of this occasion, and I will bring together the proposals of those who have not been able to participate with us physically but who have been following our activities through the blog and through the Italia dei Valori portal.

Heartfelt thanks to all.

10:00am - 12:00noon
COSTS OF POLITICS AND STATE INEFFICIENCY- LIVE VIDEO
Palazzo d’Avalos-Public discussion with Honourable Silvana Mura, IDV National Treasurer

Dr Michela Brambilla President of Circoli della Libertà – (FI)
Honourable Gianni Alemanno, Alleanza Nazionale
Prof. Giovanni Guzzetta, President of the Referendum Committee and constitutionalist
Honourable Mario Segni Coordinator of the Referendum Committee
Senator Cesare Salvi President of the SDSE Group in the Senate

in the Chair: Dr. Sergio Rizzo editorialist of il Corriere della Sera

12:00 noon - 12:45pm
CLOSING - LIVE VIDEO
Palazzo d’Avalos - Honourable Antonio Di Pietro, Minister of Infrastructure and President of Italia dei Valori

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October 06, 2007

2nd Incontro dei Valori: today 6 October

Saturday 6 October. The second day of work with many tasks on the agenda including the conference in Never Land, IdV’s island in Second Life.
Yesterday we saw the launch of the party’s portal: www.italiadeivalori.it.
For those who have never visited Never Land, it’s possible to go to the portal and find a special area with useful information for anyone wishing to visit the Island and participate in the party’s “virtual” events. I’ll be waiting for you.

9:00 am – 11:00 am
Palazzo d’Avalos MEETING FOR ELECTED MEMBERS

11:00 am – 1:00 pm
IMMIGRATION AND SECURITY: WHAT’S THE CONNECTION? - LIVE VIDEO
Palazzo d’Avalos Public Discussion. Honourable Paolo Ferrero Minister of Social Policy
Honourable Vannino Chiti, Minister for Parliamentary Relations
Honourable Roberto Maroni President of Gruppo Lega Nord Padania
Chamber of Deputies
Honourable Leoluca Orlando President of the Bi-Chamber Commission
Regional Affairs, IDV
Dr. Marco Travaglio Journalist
Dr. Renato Mannheimer President of ISPO, presents research
“Immigration and Security”
in the chair: Senator. Furio Colombo former director of L’Unità

3:00pm - 5:00pm
MEET GIV - Giovani Italia dei Valori - LIVE VIDEO
Palazzo d’Avalos: Young people. An anti-mafia generation

Prof. Umberto Santino - Centro Peppino Impastato
Elisa Martino - Unilibera
Aldo Pecora - Ammazzatecitutti
Pino Masciari – an entrepreneur
Rosanna Scopelliti
Paolo Giuggioli President. of Ordine degli Avvocati di Milano.

5:00pm - 6:00pm
Palazzo d’Avalos ANTONIO DI PIETRO in SECOND LIFE - LIVE VIDEO
Live from Neverland

6:00pm - 6:30pm
Palazzo d’Avalos OUT OF THE PROGRAMME with Minister Antonio Di Pietro on the Partito Democratico - LIVE VIDEO

10:00pm
Palazzo d’Avalos: Umberto Tozzi Concert - LIVE VIDEO

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October 05, 2007

2nd Incontro dei Valori: today 5 October

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Distributors of Unprocessed Milk

Yesterday I met a delegation of milk producers. Just recently some producers have started up a new type of milk enterprise, selling unprocessed milk direct to the public using milk distributors. A problem has arisen in relation to the measuring of the quantity that these machines give out. Some of these machines have recently been impounded because of this and this has created big problems for those who have invested in them.
Mr. Giuseppe Invernizzi, president of the Associazione Provinciale Allevatori di Como, Lecco e Varese {Provincial Association of Farmers of Como, Lecco and Varese) was a part of the delegation and he explained the problem so that we could work out some solutions.
I’m publishing the video of the meeting.

Text:

G.I.: I am Giuseppe Invernizzi, the president of Associazione Provinciale Allevatori di Como, Lecco e Varese and I have been working with milk for 30 years.
Seven years ago, when I was losing 10-20% of the farmers because farming was no longer breaking even, I wondered what farmers themselves could do. The response was for farmers to sell their milk direct to the consumer. Today it’s possible and safe to sell unprocessed milk from the point of view of health and hygiene, which is our biggest concern. How can it be done? A colleague, on holiday in Austria, saw some self-service automatic distributors of unprocessed milk.
In 2004 we imported the first of these machines from Switzerland.
Thanks for that. There are questions. First: Why has there been an evolution in the processing of milk? For health reasons. Why do you say that today it is no longer a problem?
G.I.: Because for almost ten years in Lombardy we are free of diseases that necessitated the processing of milk. These days, thousands and thousands of tests are done and there is no problem.

ADP: Who does the testing?
G.I.: The health service.

ADP: The testing has already been done?
G.I.: Yes regularly. This means that it is a product, like meat, fish and vegetables, that I buy unprocessed and then I decide whether to cook it or to use it as it is.

ADP: Today is it possible to sell unprocessed milk, or is it forbidden?
G.I.: Yes today it is already possible. There are many Ministerial circulars and we started in 2003.
We are talking of an average price of 1 euro a litre. This compares to the selling price of pasteurized milk of between 1.40 and 1.60 euro a litre.
Statistics gathered from Northern Europe where they have a mentality that is against raw products, using a sample of 14,800 children drinking unprocessed milk show that they had a reduction of 58% in cases of asthma and 38% in cases of allergies.
A really simple thing resolves at least three problems: a future for young dairy farmers who are coming back to this work, because at 1 euro a litre as opposed to the 0.33 that they get from the milk board is another world; many can work with this product and for example make cheese in-house; a massive saving as regards the environment, because the glass bottles are being reused, which, among other things, don’t have to travel hundreds of kilometres. Right now we have 400 farmers who are distributing unprocessed milk with 600 machines for about 100,000 people drinking it. This number is going up because of price increases. One of the companies that manufacture the distributors asked for their machine to be tested and certified and then they denounced the machines of their competitors as not having been certified. Thus these are now being impounded. All this in the name of selling more of that particular make of machine.

ADP: So, you feel the reason behind that is purely commercial? Is their no lobbying activity on the part of the pasteurized milk industry?
G.I.: No. This hasn’t happened because the statistics show that up until 2004 the consumption of “fresh” milk had been going down for ten years. From the moment that the sale of unprocessed milk started, this market is growing once more, attracted by the better product.
The machines that we have imported from Switzerland that are still in use, have become outlawed in Italy.
It’s happened that someone asked that they become metric machines: that means that they should be installed with a measuring system that is checked and sealed. Since milk has different density, the measuring system should be adjusted every two o three days, impossible with the seals.

ADP: What can be done in order to solve the problem?
G.I.: We just need to see what is done in Switzerland. The producer that installs the machine must sell a litre of milk, just like for the packaged milk where there is a sample control.
In Switzerland they have abolished the obligation of installation of the flowmeter, having placed on the side of the distributor an appropriate instrument to let the client verify if what he bought is indeed a litre of milk.

ADP: I do not know if a normative or ministerial provision is necessary. I will check that.
I represent a political force that tries, in Parliament, to face both the large and small issues: I have understood the problem, I will take charge of it and we will give to a parliamentarian, Pedica, to the responsibility to follow the situation.

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October 04, 2007

Solidarity with Luigi De Magistris

On Monday 8 October, the CSM will decide about the transfer of the Catanzaro prosecutor, Luigi De Magistris, in response to the request by the Minister of Grace and Justice. The prosecutor De Magistris is investigating the possible relationships between men of the institutions and criminal associations. To ask for him to be transferred means not having understood anything about what is happening in the country. The general public feels that this request is an umpteenth act of abusing power by the political class.
In such a climate you can’t ask for the Anno Zero programme dedicated to De Magistris not to be broadcast. My comment is that only in Burma could things like this happen, and perhaps not even there. Ministers are not creating the news or at least they shouldn’t be, it should be done by journalists. Whether they are called Floris or Santoro, as long as they are reporting the truth they are doing their duty and they should be left in peace.
There must be a law to keep politics and information separate. Each should be autonomous in relation to the other. Italy can be considered to be a civilised country only when this has come about. Luigi De Magistris has all my support.

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October 02, 2007

A letter from Pakistan

As a sign of solidarity, I’m publishing this letter from an Italian friend who, like many other Italians is working far away from home and who can no longer put up with the behaviour of Italian politicians.
“Dear Antonio Di Pietro,
I was lucky enough to get to know you personally when you traveled to Pakistan during NATO’s bombing of Afghanistan.
I have been working in Pakistan for about 10 years offering the possibility to Italian companies to work in this country. Myself and hundreds of Pakistanis admire your commitment, competence and courage, since you risked your life in order to find out the truth about what was really happening in the area.
Where were the other political leaders? In Rome in front of the TV cameras, telling a mass of imprecise stories.
Someone, just for propaganda reasons, did a “tour” in Afghanistan when the war was over. Great achievement!
The Italians who are working and who are productive, that is the honest ones, and there are a lot of them, need to understand that the time has come to send these swindlers home and we need to put our trust in people like yourself (unfortunately there are few people like you).
Like myself, there are hundreds of Italians working in Islamic countries whose lives are at risk every time sig. Calderoli opens his mouth to say idiotic things.
If Calderoli really believes what he is saying and if he has the courage, let him come to Pakistan to announce “Pig Day”.
There are more than 1500 Pakistanis working for me and each day I am meeting entrepreneurs, politicians, military personnel and ordinary people. They represent a reasonable cross section so I feel I can state that 99.99% of this Muslim country is made up of good people. They are non-violent and grateful to those who help them and respect them and you yourself know this so well.
I’m asking for your help in preventing sig. Calderoli from declaring other monstrosities.”
Warm greetings

Andrea De Rosa
General Manager
Master Group
Gujranwala-Pakistan

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October 01, 2007

Council of Ministers. Finance Bill: stop the debt

Text:
“At the Council of Ministers (Cabinet Meeting) held of Friday 28 September - according to the newspapers - we launched the Finance Bill. This means everything and nothing: the fact is that every year we have to approve the national budget and the related Finance Bill. The budget sets out the State’s sources of income, mainly taxes, and its intended expenditure, that is how the available monies will be spent. The Finance Bill describes how the monies will be used, maybe more maybe less, compared with the budget.
For example, the first heading in the budget is the interest payments the State must make on its borrowings. Believe it or not, we pay 70 billion euro just in servicing our debts. This is not the capital loaned to the State, but the interest payable on those loans, which have built up “thanks” to the policies pursued by the Craxis, Andreottis and Forlanis of the First Republic.
Our first task, then, is to avoid increasing this debt, so as to avoid increasing the related interest payments, which will fall on the younger generation. Every time we take on debt, we ruin the future of the young people who, as taxpayers, will have to work to meet the interest payments.
In last year’s Finance Bill, we paid back all the debts incurred under the Second Republic. We ourselves are not incurring any new debts.
The budget, then, is concerned with pensions, the health service, unavoidable expenditure, schools, etc. This year, we are not looking to raise a further 40 billion, as we were last year, but just 11 billion: this will enable us to avoid increasing taxes, and at the same time to give something back. We have granted local property tax (ICI) relief of 2 billion to the first time buyers buying houses valued at less than 60,000 euro.
Since, this year, we have 7.5 billion in hand, because State income was higher than anticipated, we can devote additional sums to solidarity, development and infrastructure, and international cooperation: we shall be making our contributions to the UN and the EU.
We have managed, then, to allocate this year’s 11 billion and the 7.5 billion remaining from last year without increasing taxes and without incurring further debt. I believe this is proper and honest administration, as one would expect of a “good parent”.
Personally, I would have done some things differently: for example, I would have devoted an extra one billion euro to security. Under the heading “solidarity”, we have allocated two billion to a one-off repayiment of debts, one billion for rents, one billion for local property tax (ICI), a further 800 million to public building projects. All in all, a great deal for solidarity but – on this you have made your opinions clear – man does not live on solidarity alone: you also have to prevent criminals from breaking into your home.
However, I have to admit that, with this coalition, this was the best that could be achieved.
I hope you will now be able to give your opinion, because this Bill has to be discussed in Parliament and can be improved. I want to know what you think of it.
In the next three months, we shall be organising periodic meetings so that, as the Bill passes through Parliament, you can give us your opinion. In Parliament, Italia dei Valori will be able to present your requests, and we will try to ensure that your voice is heard.
We shall make a start next Saturday. From Friday to Sunday, at Vasto, we are holding the Italia dei Valori festival, an opportunity for us politicians to meet all those who want to meet us and hear what we have to say. On Saturday afternoon, at 5 p.m., we shall begin this series of meetings thanks to Second Life, on our Never Land island, where you will be able to speak with us and provide us with information. During the coming months, we shall also be able to continue this thinking process through the blog.
To attend the Vasto event, you don’t need to travel there physically. We shall be streaming the event and you will be able to dialogue with us live, then and over the coming months.
On Saturday, we would have liked to begin these encounters with all the Democratic Party leaders present, but there are some, like Veltroni, who have unexpectedly decided not to come. For future DP leaders to miss a meeting like this is not a good way to consolidate relations with our allies.
We shall put out the chairs nevertheless, and maybe invite some well-prepared young people from civil society up onto the platform. Undoubtedly they will be able to give us some useful advice.

See you on Saturday!”

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