I’m publishing an interview with il Corriere della Sera about the current situation in our country.

Antonio Di Pietro: They said that it was necessary to get rid of the so-called justice-alists from the institutions and now instead Berlusconi is instrumentally relaunching the topic of security. With the complicity of the information system, that is not letting the citizens know the truth.
Cds: And what is the truth?
Antonio Di Pietro: That is was “il Cavaliere” {Berlusconi} himself who created insecurity from 2001 to 2006. For the Italians, the separation of the careers is not important, they are asking for more police on the streets, for the immediate repatriation of clandaestines, the harshening of penalties for crimes against children and women.
Cds: While you are publicising your programme, the PDL is accusing Rome’s former Mayor.
Antonio Di Pietro: Veltroni will not find me as a critical colleague. He has been a good Mayor for his city and a courageous reformer for the coalition. We are the party of action, the PDL is the party of words. It’s necessary to reduce from two to three the levels of justice and to create a one-line law to put a criminal sentence into action straight after the first level of justice for the most serious crimes.
Cds: Give advice to Berlusconi, now that you are in opposition.
Antonio Di Pietro: I’m not going to give up my battles just for this. With his conflict of interests, the global control of information and his idea of justice, Berlusconi is a danger. His return is the advent of the Sweet Dictatorship. He wants to reform the law on the “par condicio” and to have a show down with the magistracy. His politics is based on arbitrary opinion. By calling Mangano a hero, he has re-evaluated the mafia class. It’s up to us to open the eyes of the citizens.
Cds: Even if Veltroni were to decide to have a dialogue with Berlusconi on the reforms?
Antonio Di Pietro: We will never be able to offer our trust to the Berlusconi government. He has already twice said that he was having a dialogue on the reforms, and he got his hands dirty. If the magistracy does not tow the line, will he cart them off to the psychiatrist? Well, for me, that’s where the dialogue has stopped.
Cds: It is said that you don’t want to form a single Parliamentary group with the PD because on its own, the IdV gets an extra 5 million in expenses.
Antonio Di Pietro: That is discrediting and limiting. The money doesn’t go to us but to the activity of the group. I have said that we are ready to unite in Parliament on the basis of the programme; however an annexation does not benefit Veltroni. The truth is that there is a part of the PD that sees as a liberation, the possibility that the single Parliamentary group is not formed.
Cds: Marini? D'Alema? Parisi?
Antonio Di Pietro: I see two spirits, one isolationist and the other open to a new alliance. We are willing to construct this straight away with a journey of formation that could end with a single Parliamentary group, however they mustn’t close the doors on us. If the group is not created straight away because they need time to get their ideas clear, we will give them the time needed, but however they must give us the roles that are due in the shadow government and in parliament.
Cds: Minister, which posts and how many?
Antonio Di Pietro: If Veltroni intends to give us a corner in a box, of the type that is “use once and throw away”, then he is being disrespectful to all those Italians who have seen in IdV the possibility of a redemption. To isolate us would be a serious error, as has been the ostracism during the election campaign.
Cds: Veltroni said that he didn’t think the Ministry of Justice would be good for you. Do you hope to have that role at least in the shadow government?
Antonio Di Pietro: From the positions assigned to us we will understand what sort of dialogue Veltroni wants to have with us. There are roles due to the opposition, starting with the presidency of the institutions of surveillance.
Cds: Are you willing to be allied to the UDC as D'Alema would like?
Antonio Di Pietro: If Casini signs up to a formal commitment not to put forward convicts as candidates, then yes. The alliance needs to broaden to include the moderates and the Catholics or we have lost from the start.
Cds: Is the IdV like the League for the PD?
Antonio Di Pietro: With all respect for the voters of the League, Bossi’s party is a civic list that simply puts forward the interests of a territory. We however have our roots going from Mondovì to Canicattì».
Cds: And Montezemolo’s attack on the Trades Union?
Antonio Di Pietro: You can understand the diagnosis. The working man doesn’t feel represented by this Trades Union management class. But it’s one thing to take a sick person to hospital and it’s another to leave him in the hands of Dracula for treatment.