From Europe (Tuesday edition)
Crolla the Pd Venetian, I'm not
Forty-five days ago I resigned as deputy secretary of the Democratic Party Veneto. I did it openly and honestly, after repeatedly put questions in the bodies of Deputies. I did it to highlight, not a personal matter, but to create an opportunity to discuss the status of the party, before it is too late.
In April 2008, after the birth of the Democratic Party, 812,406 voters gave us the confidence vote. In April 2010, during the regional elections, while tow with the candidates and preferences, we collected only 436,309 votes. We have halved our electorate in less than two years and today, since we are 5 million in Veneto, one can say that not even a citizen of every ten voters is the Democratic Party.
While most authoritative observers of the Centre of the Veneto, as the philosopher Umberto Curi, hastened to point out the truth and the gravity of the reasons I have raised, the management team veneto addressed the issue as if it were a personal waiver. In the same way has been treated in the release of the party Bottacin Diego, a regional councilor in office, co-founder of the Democratic Party and secretary of the Venetian Margaret, when he was the first party of the center in Veneto. As well as force a deafening silence by the leadership of the Veneto region, compared to de profundis that one of the most influential founders of the Democratic Party, Massimo Cacciari, we dedicate ourselves daily. The practice of
mystify or conceal the reality is worse than a harbinger of sudden and painful awakening. I do not think half of our electorate has been engulfed in fog and Po are rather inclined to think that this mass extinction is due to the distance that the party has labeled the Venetian society. A dramatic result of the distance choice to give up the profile reformer of Italian politics and the vocation to modernize a country that observes the decline of the Second Republic, the poorest, torn and disappointed.
A distance-related folding in conservatism the left that leads us to be very credible in Veneto affirming the need to fight for a new development model for the autonomy of intermediate bodies, for a new fiscal pact, for the modernization of public administration through the contraction of spending and recognition of merit and many other issues. Yet, our country would need to see a credible alternative, able to speak to the heart of the Veneto region difficult. A Region wounded in body and soul. Deeply marked by the violence of waters that broke the banks of rivers in 20 points, has injured 300. Thousands of homes were heavily damaged and three thousand bottle companies are not now in able to resume production. A region that is also wound in the soul of a fierce economic crisis that has led to use the first ten months of 2010, more than 120 million hours of lay-offs, against the average of the 15 that were used annually until 2008. A region that was affected 400 corporate crises per year, compared to 100 who ran in the ordinary way.
a region which, with 150 000 workers in charge of the social safety nets (14 per 100) are paying a cost in human and social potential. A Region at the mercy of the Northern League, a party that every day, in every home, expresses the wish to appropriate institutions. Those public and even private ones, such as banking foundations. And it leaves unanswered the other hand major issues related to our future and that of our children, daily marking the inability to think of a new development model, a new land policy, the reorganization of the social health system and a new generation of physical infrastructure and knowledge.
While this happens, part of the party does not see or pretend not to see, and in many cases allows the luxury of the responsibilities entrusted with the selection backwards, regardless of consent, merit, competence, sensitivity and experience. So severe that the patient is often found in medical care of inexperienced or incompetent.
The responsibility of the democratic movement is therefore to be able to do something before it is too late and before the voters they will not certify the vote, the insignificance of the PD. Every so often, a friend tells me that we must wait, be patient, do not be intemperate and continue to hope. Must continue to hope and you can. However
hope I mean, if I may say so in the words of Bonoeffer is not idle waiting for those who expect that things will naturally turn to the better, but the choice and determination to act.
Before it's too late, if not already too late.
Andrea Causin
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