Today I’ve made certain declarations to about 30 journalists of the foreign press. I found the journalists very interested, if not incredulous, about what is happening in our country. A period of economic difficulty, of recession, made worse by a habit that is spreading of bad management of the public sector by a political class that seems to be living on another planet.
Effectively this sensation is more than justified given the parliamentary activity of the last few months. I am publishing a part of the speech about the new and amazing regulation “save the friends of the Premier”.
The issue is simple, most of the crimes can no longer be punished. Now the Italian justice system is KO. Let’s hope that this is enough to allow the gang in the government to act in the interests of the citizens.

Interview:
Antonio Di Pietro: I believe that the main job of the Government as well as that of the Opposition, today in our country, but not only in our country, must be the issues relating to the economy, especially as we are facing a galloping recession and in view of the purchasing power that is blocked for the families, and as regards Italy, which is different from the other countries, of a public deficit that is potentially increasing as well as an irrational waste of public money that is not yet under control.
These are the ills of Italy that are growing on top of the ills of the modern liberal democracies that we find inside the Western world.
In relation to this topic, that represents the urgency of the Italian political agenda, on the contrary, already from the first day that the current legislature took office, we have been busy with anything but that.
We are actually busy with urgent decrees, as though these were the urgencies and the emergencies of this country and not the issues that I mentioned earlier.
Among these, I’d like to draw attention to a progression of laws that have been approved for the specific personal interests of the Premier. First of all, I’d point out this situation. Up until now there has been no urgent measure that did not have within it at least one regulation that is of personal interest to the Premier himself, or some of his friends.
And the anomaly that we of IdV are contesting is that these “ad personam” regulations are inserted into measures that on their own could have even an important relevance but that become a vehicle for strictly personal interests.
Having said this, going back through the urgent regulations created in these few weeks, we can see that the first action of the government has been the decree to approve and ratify a series of requirements from the European Union and from the European Commission, which have seen an extension to a whole series of obligatory deadlines that were about to fall due, the so-called “deadline-extension” decree.
The first decree to have been passed. It was a really urgent decree. If the terms fall due, and things are not finished, they have to be done, but inserting them in that measure and what’s more in violation of the European Court of Justice, the “save-Rete4” regulation is a personal abuse in legislative acts.
And thus, it is necessary to do a series of interventions to make the fight against crime more efficient, but inside these to insert a regulation to reduce the wiretaps, preventing the publication of the relevant ones, because of really personal needs of the President of the Council, actually his night-time needs. To us this really seems an abuse of his position.
So we of Italia dei Valori are contesting the fact that within the security package, that basically we think is good as there is need for legislation that gives more security to the citizens, there are clauses inserted that in fact manage to create even more insecurity.
With the measure approved yesterday, a final last-minute amendment, in fact has made all criminals who are convicted and sentenced to a term in prison of up to seven and a half years cannot be punished. Every Italian citizen who at the end of their trial gets a prison sentence of up to seven and a half years, will not spend a single day in prison.