The Citizen Primaries that I’ve started on this Blog have received more support from another Political Party. Talking about Energy, here’s Fausto Bertinotti, secretary of Rifondazione Comunista.

Dear Beppe,

Allow me to thank you publicly for the initiatives that over the years you have promoted and thank you for the interest that you have created among the citizens.
Let me say that you remind each one of us to think of every day problems and the associated contradictions.
And you give us concrete proposals, about concrete topics that we need to give immediate and certain responses to so that we can involve all of us.

As regards us in the Rifondazione Comunista Party, a left-wing force dedicated to the search for “another possible world” we note that you give support to an innovative idea which is gaining ground in society: that of the participation and democratic and popular involvement in the decisions that are important for everyone’s life, politics, the economy and the day to day things of life.

You are talking about Citizen Primaries and I’m saying that this is a route for giving a sign of great discontinuity with the past, the route for giving a voice to every woman and man, the route for a real change of direction to the widest possible sharing and democratic participation.
We have always been in favour, and we always will be in favour of every form, the widest possible of participatory democracy.

And turning to Energy. From the pages of your site, dear Beppe, you propose detailed points in your programme that can be shared, but you also have elements that are of strong discontinuity that we have long been waiting for with respect to the policies of the past. And this, in my opinion, is one of the elements that is most characteristic of the proposals of Rifondazione Comunista both with regards to energy and in regards to other topics as well.

For this reason, your proposals should be supported and encouraged. Without going on much longer, I’d like to draw the attention of any reader to clean energy, saving energy, protection and respect for the territory, quality of life of women and men, efficient public transport, non-polluting and at the service of all women and all men.
We also believe like you, that it is possible to have another development model and another model of life.

I’m certain that together we will commit to supporting and giving strength to these projects, I send you my most cordial greetings”

Fausto Bertinotti