18 April 2008

The Autonomy of Italia dei Valori

I’m publishing a brief sound interview that I gave yesterday about the current situation of Italia dei Valori in relation to the Democratic Party.
” Italia dei Valori is a party that stays a party. In November there will be elections. Before next year’s European elections, there will be other local elections and possibly even in Lombardy. Thus, our party exists. It will get even stronger and it will be ever more present to represent all that sector of the electorate that today can find us to be their representatives.
The united group is the fruit of a convergence about content. In view of the positions taken that distinguish them from the wish to recognise Italia dei Valori, with whom the alliance was made, today I read a declaration from Caldarola who said: “We will leave the party if a role is given to Italia dei Valori and to Di Pietro.” I would like to say that I don’t want anyone to leave the Democratic Party. We have noted that the leader of the Democratic Party is Walter Veltroni, whom we recognise as the leader of the coalition, just as we have indicated before the elections and whom we want to help take forward the programme that we have shared and signed up to.
Now we want to know, exactly because we have seen hesitations during the election campaign, what is the programme in relation to justice that this unified group wants to move forward, because if it is true that Veltroni wants to have a shadow government, and if it is true that we have learned this from the newspapers, it is necessary in a coalition, that such important things are no longer to be learned from the newspapers, but they are to be understood and shared together. Above all, it is necessary to know who has to deal with what in this coalition and above all, in this shadow government. That is, I would like to understand if the issues about information relating to this unified group are taken on as spokesperson, for example by Follini or by Giulietti, because in the choice of these people, it’s possible to identify the model that is to be adopted. I would like to understand if, in this shadow government, the Ministry of Justice has to be one or the other because during the election campaign, from certain people we heard that Italia dei Valori did not have the right to deal with justice.
For these reasons we are asking for a meeting with the Democratic Party and with Veltroni. I’m not saying with Veltroni alone but Veltroni and the Democratic Party, because we are aware that there there are two spirits: there’s a spirit that wants us and there’s a spirit that doesn’t want us, because that is the only way to explain this. We want to go to a marriage based on affection, not on a marriage of interests. We acknowledge that as of today there’s a spirit that wants us, a spirit with whom we have made a precise and decisive agreement, the spirit that we can see in Veltroni. With that spirit we want to construct a unified group that respects the programme. There’s a spirit that doesn’t want us, and it’s true that on the political battles that we want to take forward, they have already said that we have not the right not even to speak and that they will ask nothing from us. In fact, even they start to find us horrid for the fact that we could deal with justice. In this kind of viewpoint, to decide if we can create a unified group, we want to know what they want to do.
We have indicated the topics about which we would like replies, without which in the meantime we will create our Italia dei Valori group and we will start a journey to reach clarity, to resolve as soon as possible those issues that could still be unresolved.
I believe that every decision should be taken together and communicated together, Veltroni and I, which is why I’m making this invitation and not just to be united but to be reunited to decide the content rather than the container, but also after that, to communicate the decision together. What’s more, I’m also asking that following on from the meeting, that we are asking for before the first sitting of Parliament, there is also a moment when Veltroni and I together, go through a verification together with the general public by means of the press and together we refer each other’s reasoning.”

Posted by Antonio Di Pietro in Politics