Here is a short interview I gave on 14 March in Taranto on the topic of the statute of limitations.

Journalist: With the ex-Cirielli Law, In Taranto we risk the expiry of the statute of limitations on many important court cases. What do you intend to do about this, should you be a part of the next Government?Antonio Di Pietro: In the first place, in response to a question of this nature, most politicians would give the same answer, namely: “We will work hard to stop this from happening”. Don’t believe them however. Look around and see who actually did anything during the last legislature. We, and very few others were the only ones that fought to stop the pardons and I was the only one that stated that the ex-Cirielli Law needed to be changed, and nobody else. Everyone else was saying that the periods contemplated in the statute of limitations needed to be reduced.
This will be my undertaking as part of the Italia dei Valori party, if you vote me into Parliament, however, what we need are numbers. This is why people must vote, precisely because what is needed are numbers, because there in Parliament, no one gives a damn about this issue. Today they will say one thing, and then proceed to do something totally different. We need numbers.
My concrete undertaking is as follows: to eliminate this law that envisages short periods for the statute of limitations and to replace it with a regulation that makes provision for the absence of any statute of limitations once the person has been committed for trial, in other words, that there will be no expiry date once charges have been laid and court proceedings have begun. Absolution should only occur on the merits, you are either innocent or guilty. It should not happen that the law comes along and says, “we will no longer proceed”, and this before a decision is made regarding guilt or innocence.
This little game, namely fixing a deadline by which, if no decision has yet been made, then no decision will be made at all, has become a tool provided by Berlusconi himself in order to get impunity first, and then the truth.
This will not happen if I come into power.