16 February 2008

The Pd-Idv Agreement

I’m publishing an article by Marco Travaglio on the Pd-Idv agreement.
The PD-Di Pietro agreement does not please Platinette Barbuto, which means that it is a good thing. It doesn’t even please Cainano, and this too should be a good sign, as well as a natural fact: the memory of “Clean Hands” is for him like garlic for the vampires; the fact that the 4-5% of the votes that are accredited to the former prosecutor is not to be forgotten with the piggish game of the quorums lessens the distance between the people of the prescritti-in-liberty and the Pd-Idv, as well as that it cuts – really revolutionary – convicted candidates even at the first degree will make even more scandalous the Berlusconian and UDC candidatures of well known convicts and provisional convicts, and the presence of the former prosecutor will make it a bit more difficult to have the hoped for (by Cainano) mess-ups with the justice system, the TV and the “great reforms”.
A bit less understandable is that the nuptials of Uòlter and Tonino has created scandal in the Democratic Party, above all if Cainano’s same arguments are used. To be noted, in its small way, is the case of Peppino Caldarola, who in the course of a year has managed to pass from being a follower of D’Alema to a D’Alema-opposer, to exit from the DS because he didn’t agree with the PD project and then to come back into the PD because he liked Veltroni, and now he’s threatening to leave because he doesn’t like Veltroni’s choice. “It seems difficult for me to stay in the same party” as Di Pietro, he announced scowling. Reason: “What will happen to our dialoguing campaign with Berlusconi, with dipietrists and grillists that call him the ‘psycho-dwarf’?”
It’s exactly what Berlusconi says. Anyway, the other day, the unsettled Caldarola had written an article for Berlusconi’s il Giornale to ask, after the elections, for a nice government of wide understanding with Forza Italia, right at the moment that Uolter was denying that he had ever had this intention. So there, it is interesting the position of a hopeful candidate of the PD who wants to govern with Berlusconi, Dell’Utri and Cuffaro, but Di Pietro (dangerously with no convictions) he doesn’t even want to see.
Even Antonio Polito, another crowd puller, is alarming. He too makes it known in the columns of a Berlusconi newspaper, il Foglio, for which he is a stable contributor: “I’m sorry, but I really can’t see myself in the same parliamentary group as Di Pietro, even because with this alliance I infer that the PD will line up not just against the intercept law announced by the Centre Right, but also against its reform, that was wanted by his government in this legislature.” Basically it’s a great problem, for Cainano, that the PD won’t vote for the law that wants to send to prison for up to 5 years anyone who does an intercept and to fine up to 2 million Euro the journalists who publish intercepts. It is also a great problem that the PD distances itself from the Mastella reform, that is just happy to ruin the journalists by fining them up to 100 thousand Euro. According to Polito, to get consensus, the PD should follow the Mastella programme, that provoked so much enthusiasm in these two years in the Olive base, and that naturally overturned the Prodi government.
At this point we need to understand why whoever wants to have a government with Berlusconi or vote for his laws, and who already collaborates with his in-house publications, does not make himself a direct candidate with Berlusconi. Or even create a new party, the «Caldalito», or the «Polirola», and putting forward as candidates the latest victims of the intercepts from Fazio to Moggi, the neighbourhood sly lads and the signora Mastella – and using the slogan: “No bugs” or “Liberty Illegality Impunity” (asking for it to be loaned from Cetto Laqualunque, who has already registered the trade mark).
Not even the little Boselli is at peace: why Di Pietro and not him? The fact that Di Pietro has the votes and he hasn’t is evidently, completely secondary. The voters: these unknown. That the SDI has just taken on board Gianni De Michelis, convicted for corruption for the motorway backhanders in the Venice region and for illegal financing in the Enimont trial, has absolutely no influence. In fact, as is well known, the average voter, between a De Michelis, and a Di Pietro, would choose De Michelis with their eyes closed. What’s more, it’s been years that the Olive voters go out into the streets and squares to ask what has happened to De Michelis and what they are waiting for to bring him back into Parliament and into the government a little person who is so good. They can’t even sleep at night. Unfortunately they will stay disappointed this time as well. We hope the next one too.”

Posted by Antonio Di Pietro in Politics