The quorum is a theft of democracy. A constitutional way of screwing the citizen. The gates of the palace have to stay shut. It’s unacceptable that those who hold public office are inviting people to not go and vote. They should be denounced. Around the place there are only posters for YES. Those for NO are absent. Those who want nuclear and want to take possession of public water to make money out of it cannot invite people to vote NO. If they were to do that they would be shooting themselves in the balls. In fact, there would be a greater possibility of getting a “quorum”. Thus they prefer to use the contemptible tactic of staying silent, of putting the voters off the track by even providing them with false data through the State TV programmes like Tg1 and Tg2. They know that public opinion has already been decided, that the YES voters will be in a majority with or without a quorum and so they are aiming at the desertion of the polling stations. Italy is a dictatorship with just two glimmers of democracy. Two small lamps that are ever feebler for participation: the popular law proposal and the referendum. The former is just smoke in your eyes, you can gather 350,000 signatures for a new election law, as for Clean Parliament, and Schifani can use them to clean his arse and no one can object. In the next few days it’ll be the second anniversary of my being heard by the commission for constitutional affairs to present the law … The referendum, when it overcomes the barrier of the disinformation during the collection of the signatures and the judgement of the Constitutional Court and it was finally inserted into the calendar, it then became a loaded pistol against the party-ocracy that immediately started an obscene dance to weaken it. The first step was to avoid any grouping together with local, national or European elections. The second step was to choose a date in the summer for the vote. The third was to avoid talking about it or to invite people to stay home or go to the seaside, as Formigoni has done and as Craxi did in his time. It is by now evident that democracy and party-ocracy are irreconcilable. When the former exists, the latter cannot exist and vice versa. Democracy is for the Italian parties like light is for the vampires, they cannot tolerate it. This is why the MoVimento 5 Stelle {5 Star MoVement} will try to bring in the referendum that is both abrogative and propositional without a quorum (anyone who doesn’t vote counts for zero), as given in its Programme.

On 12 and 13 June vote and bring with you your friends and relatives to vote in the referenda. FOUR YESes against nuclear, for water in public hands and for anyone to be equal before the law.