12 March 2008

Italia dei Valori Candidates: Beppe Giulietti

I’m publishing the speech delivered at the presentation by Beppe Giulietti, a candidate in Piedmont for Italia dei Valori.

”In general, whoever is not visible gets forgotten by the media policies and it seems polite to remember whoever allows you to express yourself and to exist.
Let me say a word of thanks, a tiny conflict of interests that is easily resolvable, to many of us present here who have chosen to participate in the forum of Articolo 21 by expressing agreement and disagreement to a proposal that arrived from Italia dei Valori in a clear way, a transparent way that was handled in a free and transparent way. I will then leave a file with hundreds of people who have written, many of whom will not vote for me, nor even for Di Pietro, who think differently, but who say “yes”. If there is a proposal to represent forcefully, a clear and transparent way, the topics of communication, it is a serious proposal. Above all my thanks go to those who think differently from me, but this is the way to represent communication: not to associate the faithful and to try to represent those who are different.
He convinced me because it is a list that unites in a Country where the lists cause divisions, because it supports a candidate to be President, Veltroni, who is a friend of mine. When I read the pictures of night-time struggle between Veltroni and Di Pietro, they are stupid stories. The proposal that was made to me was clear and transparent from Italia dei Valori in response to the appeal of thousands of people. I had never asked for dispensations. I don’t know what that’s about. I was busy with other things.
In response to a document that put forward the topic of communication, Italia dei Valori said: “We know that they are important and fundamental topics. Represent them with force and dignity.” I don’t know if I’ll be capable, however, certainly I’ll be committed to represent them and to try to do so.
Rarely have I seen anyone taking on a topic with this level of commitment and with this strength, in a country where article 21 has been destroyed in certain seasons, gaining for itself, the last place, not because it was Giulietti that said so, Giulietti who is no one, but the liberal international agencies, that many people probably don’t know and get them confused with the Bolsheviks.
Thus there are three key thoughts: rule of law, liberty and equality. My commitment is to journey in this world.
Do you know the meaning of the rule of law? It makes me laugh to say this: that there’s a commitment to respect the verdicts of the Constitutional Court and of the European Court, that if Europa7 wins, then the verdict is applied, and there’s no playing about with the verdicts. This is a phrase used by the Centre Right: zero tolerance against what is illegal. To say this phrase seems something radical, respect for the verdict is valid for Europa7, it’s valid for ReteA, it’s valid for the tiniest radio station. If it is possible to play games with a verdict, it’s possible for anyone in the world of communications. It means, and Pardi has expressed it well, to be liberated from the conflict of interests, that is not only in relation to Berlusconi, but also of the RAI: yes to a unique administration, closing down the Boards of Directors with political nominations, at the RAI and at the Authority. They are proposals that are classically European: to be freed from control. This is to be liberated of conflict of interests and ensure we have liberty, and it means also freedom of the Internet, that is no to proposals to control the Internet and no to proposals of 5 years in prison and two million Euro that are at the centre of Berlusconi’s programme on intercepts: it means putting a cage round Italian reporters. I believe it is not practicable.
Quality means that perhaps the three trials of Perugia or of Erba can go on at one o’clock in the morning, and a great campaign on the deaths at work can come back to 9:00pm, just like the great topics about life.
I would like to ask the Guaranteeing Authority to check up right now, very seriously the topic of equal opportunity, because I believe in the topic of liberty: if the socialists protest, I worry, I want to know whether they are right, just as if it’s the Radicals protesting or the Sinistra Arcobaleno, when it is Di Pietro, I will be worried, just as for the Democrats and the groups on the Centre Right. Let the Authority control the data. If there is any violation don’t let them wait until after the election, let them take the compensatory measures straight away, not suspensions: this is what it means to be free and to defend everyone’s liberty.
I have read that Berlusconi has a horror of Di Pietro. I’ll end with this: One of the reasons why I accepted to be a candidate is that he has a horror of Di Pietro. I however am a bit behind the times. I try to respect the 10 commandments on alternate days. I have a horror of those who have played foul with the verdicts, the ones who pay the judges, the ones who go and have dinner with the mafia people and those who put forward as candidates the friends of mafia people.
Thank you”

Posted by Antonio Di Pietro in Politics