I have nothing against Vendola, it’s simply that I’m not keen on being taken for a ride (unfortunately it won’t be the last time… ). Before the 2010 regional elections Vendola asked for the support of the 5 Star MoVement (that was not presenting itself in Apulia) in a video. He telephoned me. He made precise promises on the public management of water. After almost a year, the management of water is still in private hands, managed by an SpA {company with shareholders}. The excuses are at rock bottom and with his use of language between the priestly and the baroque and at times super-lying, Nichi denies in order to admit and admits in order to deny. Whereas Prodi dropped off to sleep with his muttering that got transformed into wheezing, Nichi rocks you gently, he hypnotises you with his nothing-like sweetness. He can say anything he wants and come out of it alive like a salamander: “Berlusconi is a genial individual …. he really has some astonishing streaks, a ‘self made man’ who manages to construct a whole epic of the national cultural life … He’s a prototype of the new man who has known how to impose himself on the Italian scene. We have made a tragic error: to demonise the character and have little understanding of the cultural mechanism of reproducing consensus.” He can create incinerators together with Ms Marcegaglia, today three of them and tomorrow who knows. He can compare his Region to the virtuous California while the percentage of RECYCLED WASTE in Apulia for the whole of 2010 is at 15.3% in Campania for example, at a regional level, it’s more than 25% with 160 towns that recycle more than 50%. He can devote 120 million euro of the Apulia Region’s public money to the ‘San Raffaele Mediterraneo’ foundation that has as its member Don Luigi Maria Verzé, none other than Berlusconi’s spiritual father. There are three types of person. Those that do actions and say nothing. Those that do actions and say so. Those that speak and mind their own business. Vendola belongs to the third category. They will never give up (but is it in their interests?). Neither will we.

Press release from the ‘Forum Italiano dei Movimenti per l'Acqua’ {Italian Forum for Water Campaigns} and ‘Comitato Pugliese per l'Acqua Bene Comune’ {Apulia Campaign Group for Water as a Common Good}

”During the broadcast of the programme ‘Annozero’ on Thursday 10 February, the President of the Region, Nichi Vendola, affirmed that he brought back into public hands the water system for Apulia round about the 30th or 40th day of his new term of office. The Apulia Group of “Acqua Bene Comune” feels the duty to respond. President Vendola has certainly “done a law”, but that law is not yet in operation, and it has not yet been approved by the Regional Council. Thus the water system in Apulia is not yet back in public hands, and what has been presented by Vendola is up until now, a draft law.
Leaving aside other details, we have to add that in his declarations President Vendola has among other things, referred to the “pagelle” {school reports} of Federutility, without explaining what this organisation is and thus without pointing out that this is not indeed “super partes”, it is not indeed interested in the return of the water system to public hands and in fact, it is supporting the existing state of things. Attached is the letter that the ‘Forum Italiano dei Movimenti per l'Acqua’ and ‘il Comitato Pugliese per l'Acqua Bene Comune’ have written to Nichi Vendola.” Comitato Pugliese "Acqua Bene Comune" and Forum Italiano dei Movimenti.
Letter to Vendola

P.S. Meetings for the creation of 5 Star Civic Lists have been organised in the following towns:
Abano Terme, Anzio, Arezzo, Arquata Scrivia, Arzergrande, Chivasso, Crotone, Este, Figline Valdarno, Montignoso, Montefiascone, Nettuno, Ospedaletto Euganeo, Rocca Priora, Sennori, Vasto, Vimercate

Suggest a meeting in your own town.