15 July 2010

Cesare: a name, a guarantee

This morning I was a guest on the show "Faccia a Faccia", presented by Massimo Giannini for RepubblicaTv. In the video and in the text that follows I am presenting a few of the salient parts of the show.

Cesare, always Cesare.
Through the years, the name Cesare has always been a guarantee. I’m thinking of Cesare Geronzi of Cesare Previti and now of “Cesare Silvio Berlusconi". Cesare is Cesare, that’s what history teaches us. Cesare does what he likes. But in fact, does it seem possible to you that every time Berlusconi is involved in happenings like this of the new P2, he never knows anything?
Often, in relation to judicial affairs that have seen the involvement of the President of the Council, I have been accused of using the theory of “He could not have not known”. Too many times Berlusconi has hidden himself behind the “I didn’t know”. In fact, he could not have not known that his employees falsified the accounts so as to pay bribes. After that, in order to reward them, he brought them into Parliament. Even yesterday, Berlusconi showed that he was pretending not to know. After the resignation of Cosentino, he reacted by saying that the former undersecretary “can thus work better in Campania for the PDL”. A Region where he is currently in the position of coordinator. The true puppet-master of this whole story is still there and he is called Silvio Berlusconi. That’s why we of Italia dei Valori are continuing in our solid opposition “without ifs and buts”. And that is why we are once more telling our allies that it’s useless to “use the foil for fencing”.

We will ask for a “no confidence” vote for the whole government
It is clear that the executive is kept in power if it has a parliamentary majority. And it is clear that the parliamentary majority right now, is with this government. But it is also true that with this electoral law it’s unlikely that things will change. In fact, the deputies will no longer have the courage to take a stand, given that they are fearful of no longer finding a space for themselves in the list of candidates at the next elections. For this reason, it is important to start now with a strong denunciation within Parliament. Thus it is important to propose an alternative to the government by means of new elections. Otherwise, we will never manage to gain a “no confidence” vote for this government. For all these reasons Italia dei Valori is proposing this vote of “no confidence”. A motion that will be turned down by the government, but it will be an opportunity for discussion and for informing the citizens about the economic, judicial and political reasons why this government must go away.
The citizens have to be informed in time, by a strong opposition inside and outside Parliament. Otherwise, even at the next elections, many Italians will go to the urns without knowing the bad that the centre right has done and is doing.

Post-Berlusconi-ism
I believe that to entrust to an assassin a scalpel to provide treatment to a patient whom he has already injured is not possible. As a consequence, I believe that to entrust to Berlusconi a new government to take the place of the current one is a great big way of taking us for a ride. Widespread agreements mean creating a Majority in parliament that makes it possible to keep a government going forward. According to you, do you think it is possible that I could sit next to people who are voting for this economic package, or for the draft law on wiretapping, that is the same parliamentarians that have voted for the amendments in favour of the usual crafty ones? For me this hypothesis cannot exist.

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Posted by Antonio Di Pietro in Information