22 November 2007

An electoral law for the citizens

The last Council of Ministers saw the start of a series of discussions about electoral law. We of Italia dei Valori also had discussions with Veltroni on this topic.
I have to say straight away: the meeting of Italia dei Valori with the Partito Democratico and with Veltroni in particular, did not satisfy us. I hope that future meetings go better.
Practically they said: “Dissolve your party and get lost. We are here to pick up any bones that are left.” We believe that we have an electoral base that will go on voting for us as they see that they cannot be satisfied with the Partito Democratico, just as they cannot be satisfied with other parties.
We want to give strong support to the reduction of the number of parties, so thus we are putting ourselves under discussion. We want to overcome the threshold of the little parties so that we can get to a position of being a party that can represent its voters in Parliament. Thus we want an electoral law that allows us to participate with our party and that doesn’t allow anyone to win before the game starts. Let’s leave these tricks to those that know how to play them, but above all, we cannot accept that people who have their own electorate of quality and proven success, can step outside of the political arena.
In this way, Italia dei Valori is committed and will be committed in the next few months to work for an electoral law that will be both a law that guarantees the rights of the citizens to choose their own candidate, the duty of the coalition to choose beforehand who will be the President of the Council and above all what coalition he is part of. Playing hands-free and then making agreements with "Jane and John" after the elections is a crafty manoevre that is no good for the electorate.

Posted by Antonio Di Pietro in Politics