”Citizen Monti,
You have a relative legitimacy to hold the position as President of the Council. You were appointed by the “spread”, not by the Italians. You have the great good fortune to be following on from the worst government of the last 150 years, made possible by an unconstitutional electoral law. It’s impossible to do worse than that. It would seem that you have a free hand. You can decide (almost) everything. The parties are at rock bottom, pure wallpaper. Elections cannot be held to avoid a default that is almost certain and because, with this electoral law, without preferences and a change of faces in Parliament after a maximum number of legislatures, it would change nothing. It is said that you have a great responsibility, that you are the final possibility to save the country. I don’t think that it is right to place this enormous burden on you. You, on your own, or even with a team of professors and of technical people, can do very little without the support of the general public. The honeymoon that you are experiencing, due to the “liberation from Berlusconi” rather than to yourself, could reveal itself to be very short. Your success will be determined by your actions and by the consensus that these actions have in the real country, the country of the movements and the associations, and certainly not that of the parties, that are by now a simulacrum of democracy. Thus, allow me, also for the people that are following me, that by now from a numerical viewpoint, are the fifth or the sixth electoral force, to give you a few suggestions. The first is to respect the will of the people that expresses the wish to abandon nuclear, for public water or to avoid the useless destruction of the Val di Susa. The second is straight away to give examples of cuts to useless costs before any tax on the first home, on the patrimony, or increase in sales tax. The Italian people have the highest taxes in Europe and at the same time, enormous tax evasion. It means that it’s always the same people that pay and it’s possible that only on their shoulders will fall the burden of the so-called "risanamento" {recovery}. You are lucky in two ways. The first, as I have written, is that you are following on from a wretch. The second is that you have wide margins for manoeuvring. Wherever you glance you could operate savings and cuts at zero cost. Cut the provinces, the electoral financing, the public financing of publishing. Put a stop to the great useless public works like the TAV, “la Gronda” in Genoa, the Expo in Milan. You know better than I do that they are of no use. The economy is not developed with cement. Bring back the motorway concessions under state management, it is right that if there is a gain of billions of euro, that it remains with the State and that it is not destined for Benetton and associates. You studied with the Jesuits, but, staying on the topic of religious orders, you should renew yourself along the lines of the Franciscans. Peel off your relations with the world that appointed you and turn directly to the Italian people. If you cannot do that, I advise you to leave the position. To repeat the same errors and the vileness of the politicians that preceded you would not do you honour. I’m asking for a meeting so that I can tell you about the M5S programme. I hope for a positive response. Greetings” Beppe Grillo