Ladies and gentlemen, we are in Ferrara, the “palazzo degli Estensi”, the castle. Savonarola (his statue is being restored), who is watching me. I am moving around like a madman. I’m not turning round because I am a bit distraught, but inside I’ve got extreme happiness. I am doing a “tournée” that even when I was 21 years old I didn’t do anything like this. I’m getting changed in the car, I’m stripping off in the toilets of a bar, I’m given slaps, pats on the shoulder. We are going around with these Civic Lists to such an extent that I no longer understand what they have turned into. I feel like Savonarola. Instead of the “piagnoni” {wailers} that he had following him, I’ve got folk who smile, who play. They are these Civic Lists that by now are taking charge of their own towns and they will surely succeed. Citizens who are going in. Not right-wing or left-wing.
Now I’m between Padua and Ferrara and really I’m doing rallies. It seems as though I have always done rallies all my life. I have always done rallies. The press, the newspapers are placing a cloak of silence on al this. In fact, they are moving the dates. They are not giving us the public spaces. They are decentring us from the centres. But the satisfaction is that all the mayors, PDL and PDminusL, all this stuff, no longer exist, they are starting to copy all the stuff that we are saying about the five stars: water, renewable energy….
Here we have the people of Ferrara, the city of bicycles. I hate bicycles. I have already had three accidents with bicycles. There are these really dangerous old people with bicycles in Ferrara, in the centre, that have two shopping bags, the mobile phone and an umbrella on the bicycle. They are really dangerous. No. It’s a city that is very much people-oriented. The means of transport is the bicycle. It’s fantastic. It’s a shame that they have got this petrochemical plant. And it will be a disaster. Because Marghera is collapsing and the three towns Ferrara, Mantua and Ravenna depend on Marghera‘s petrochemical plant. The next ones to lose their jobs will be these thousand workers who work here. This could be a centre of excellence for everything: for tourism, for the quality of life, for the food, for agriculture, that instead has been abandoned.

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Good 168 and see you soon. I hope in your home towns. Ciao!