11 February 2008

Let’s re-establish political ethics

I must speak to you about the political situation, otherwise we will continue to be at each other’s throats. Even the whole issue surrounding waste disposal, with all due respect for those that have done something about it, can only be resolved in one way, namely by changing the existing faces, anything else is simply useless. If we change the existing faces and put in some good people, people who are not in it for their own benefit, we can make the system work. If, instead, we insist on using business policies, or a policy of exchanging votes for jobs and positions, where everything passes through the hands of the same old people who simply change post, we will go nowhere.
Whether we like it or not, we must make the Country understand that we must change the people who have been in charge of the administration until now. The centre-left has failed during its legislature, but not because the Government was bad, as they are saying on television. This Government did all it could, and it did well, but it was faced with a Parliament that included certain people who were voted in by one side and that threatened, on a daily basis, to walk across to the other side, simply in order to get something they wanted, and landed up by selling their souls to the devil. That is the truth.
Neither Italy nor the Italians can survive with fifty different political parties. We are saying this as a political party that started of very small and that is working its fingers to the bone in order to become a large political party that will make the grade. We are not afraid because, if we must stay alive simply as a tool for holding others to ransom and help someone find their own little niche, then we will not go anywhere, because this is not what the Country needs. Do you honestly believe that if I were to go and ask for a position for myself, and perhaps a few others for two of my friends, I would be refused? They would grant us these positions immediately, however, clearly I don’t accept because we have built up a creature with which we want to become of age, to grow up with and we want to be a Governing Party.
You will no doubt have noticed that the very same people currently buzzing around Berlusconi, and around Veltroni before him, namely Mastella, Dini and De Gregorio, are simply genetically modified organisms that move from one side to the other, depending on expediency. And that’s the end of the story.
What am I trying to say by this? I wish to say that there is a certain political layout that is good for politics. And what do we do at this point? This is precisely the problem.

Posted by Antonio Di Pietro in Politics