Avis and Dracula in Campania
We need to go from words to action. As work at the Regional Assembly starts up again, Italia dei Valori will present a motion of no confidence in relation to governor Bassolino.
I’m publishing here an interview that I gave for today’s Il Giornale.
Antonio Di Pietro: It’s nonsensical continuing to entrust the case of the refuse in Campania to the one who caused it. It’s like handing over Avis to Dracula.
Il Giornale: If your motion gets passed, there’ll be the need for new elections, Minister.
Antonio Di Pietro: OK new elections, then. There’s a special committee that will work on the emergency. In Campania there’s the need for a generational change of the political class: in Naples the “no” party has always been in power. Now it’s time for many to examine their conscience.
Il Giornale: Are you also referring to your colleagues in the Government?
Antonio Di Pietro: Certainly. The ones to start examining their conscience are the Minister of the Environment, Pecoraro and the Minister of Justice, Mastella, who has been a local leader for decades. They cannot stand back. I would like there to be a deep reflection in Campania. A reflection like that in Lombardy that has given rise to the “doing party” in which everyone makes themselves available to solve problems. In contrast, In Naples, each one is working to block the others. The result is a flow of money that has been spent on committees, research, conferences, groups, with the associated clientelism and nepotism. It’s the moment to pull out the plug. We of Italia dei Valori are the only party of the Centre Left that has not been a part of the regional government. We are taking the responsibility for this on ourselves.
Il Giornale: Bassolino is accusing you of being irresponsible in asking for his resignation.
Antonio Di Pietro: Arrogance like that is a sign that he has no further points to offer to the discussion. It is good that the government has decided to tackle the issue directly. Up until now the governments have dealt with it in the only way allowed by the Constitution, that entrusts the Region with the disposal of refuse: they have made financial resources available and they have appointed commissioners. It’s right that they now go and see where that flow of money has landed up, lost in a thousand tiny trickles of clientelism, inefficiency and bags of bad practice. And the massive political responsibility is all down to Bassolino.
Il Giornale: And yet until this last dramatic emergency, the position of the governor has never been in question. How is that?
Antonio Di Pietro: I was astounded yesterday when I watched the Tg1 {News on RAI one): for them, the news was that Bassolino was accusing me of being irresponsible! There is obviously an anomaly here. Even on the left there is a caste of untouchables. The politics of appearance and of image is not just about Berlusconi’s lifting, but also the pretend “goody-goody”-ness of the Centre Left.
Previous articles: Bassolino must resign
Campania: sciogliere il consiglio regionale (www.italiadeivalori.it)
Bassolino maggiore responsabile (www.italiadeivalori.it)
Rifiuti: assenza delle istituzioni (www.italiadeivalori.it)
Eco-balle (www.italiadeivalori.it)
Appalti truccati in Campania (www.italiadeivalori.it)
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From Canada and the United States..."melting pot" of America,
Good evening ,once again, this january 8, 2007.
Now, still debating this garbage problem in Naples, i believe it is time for the politicians and people in government in Italy, to just take a trip to north America and give a look at how things work here, including this matter of garbages.
Also look at many more things, like the construction industry...............where in Italy to do a projet or building something for private or public interest like the Tav, or a bridge over the Messina strait, takes long, even years of planning, and public money approved for those projets ending up in burocratic bungle and disappearing.
I, really would like to see our politicians in Italy to come to Vancouver, Canada and look at the tremendous construction going on even at this time of year!.....The all city is upside down, especially the downtown core, and were building underground a new metropolitan, like the "Canada line", and in this case by an Italian company, and many more projets, there are no problem at all! They seem to have all the money, in the trillions of dollars, not only for building a projet once, but twece, in case of mistakes, and not problem whatsever, even if they have to do it againg and again!
I just don't quite understand, why is that in Italy, my own country every body have an attitude to make money without working too hard! whitout getting dirty! (Any way, i would like the people in Italy to take charge of their own country and make the foregners pay.....i would suggest the 6h american fleet in Naples to clean up the garbage problem, and pay for other problems, in exachange for rent of few militari bases they occupay in Italy.
Posted by: V.Annibale | January 9, 2008 03:54 AM
The Naples is the the streets of the Italian image ,inside in the Italian political house is dirty we need to clean the mentality before.
Posted by: alex | January 8, 2008 03:33 PM
Good evening,
It was 1958 the last time i was in Naple at the harbour, were i took a picture in front of an american warship, there i was standing, picture that i still have, when i was 18 years old. The reason i went to Naple was to see my sister in law depart for north-america to marry my brother.
Now at that time i don't recall any of these kind of problems in Naple, as of today's disposition of garbage, ig piles and piles of garbage!
My comment....? I believe the people in Naple deserve this kind of problems! and so many other people in the south of Italy! (i was born on the Gran SASSO d'Italia) Many people in the South of Italy are.....kind of talking too much!
Any thing they do, how they speak, their willingness to work......are kind of somenthing to be desired! that's their nature, also the government........has been like that......just talking for ages!......
Posted by: V.Annibale | January 8, 2008 04:02 AM