Greek politicians are lucky. When they are seen out and about, (as little as possible) people throw yogurt at them. It’s the Greek type, among the best in the world … Whereas our politicians get arrested. They weep with nostalgia for the coins thrown at Craxi. If people were to throw 10 cent coins at them they would be happy. They move around with bodyguards, in dark blue cars with blackened windows, like sharks in the traffic, so as not to be recognised by people. They are afraid of them. The riot police should in reality be called the parliamentary anti-trawling force. They are the final barrier between the politicians and the citizens. Just think of the joy of a maxi-trawl done by the magistrates in Parliament. For the Italians, it would be like winning the football World Cup.
These individuals who are under investigation, convicted at the first, second or third level who no one has elected, judge themselves and absolve themselves all by themselves. They decide, for reasons that are mysterious to the people, who can be arrested, as happened for Papa of the PDL, and who can get away scot free like Tedesco of the PDminusL.
A lighted match is enough, a forgotten match and that can set off the social revolt. They know that. The country is in debt starting from the State right down to the tiniest town. The debt of each citizen is the sum of the debts of the town + province + region + State. A person from Parma, for example, as well as the 31,000 euro of State public debt , has on his shoulders 630 million in town debt, equivalent to 1,940 euro a head including the new born infants. Anyway, Parma is lucky when compared to Turin, the most indebted city in Italy. We are drowning in debt that someone has taken on in our place. More debt means fewer social services, unliveable cities, local transport collapsing. Before any other expenditure, in fact, you have to pay the interest on the debt so as not to go under.
Each day a new judicial bulletin. You go from the PDL ‘s multiply-arrested Prosperini for passing envelopes of cash to the PDminusL’s Filippo Penati, vice president of the regional council in Lombardy under investigation for misappropriation and corruption in an investigation about the area of the former Falck in Sesto San Giovanni. In a country where Alfonso Papa from Poggioreale declares himself to be “a political prisoner” like a member of the Red Brigades of times gone by and where the PDL contest the vote for Papa with the reason: “Enough electronics, go back to the balls”, it’s the balls of the citizens that are going round and round vortically. It is the judges who decide who has to go to prison, not the chums of the defendants and those who are accused of serious crimes have to resign. Meanwhile, Bersani of the Fiscal Shield, of the “no” to the provinces, of the management of private water, of the TAV, and with excellent defendants in his party, is asking for new elections. I agree. Before that however, the PDminusL must be dissolved. They will never give up (but is it in their interests?). Neither will we.