Surprises and amnesia by Antonio Di Pietro
What Antonio Di Pietro said and what he didn't say… Damato 's Graffi
Time, thank God, also passes for Antonio Di Pietro. Who as a pensioner, farmer, direct farmer or whatever prefers to be called after having done quite a few jobs and having perhaps missed the Quirinale in 1992 only because he was not yet 50 years old required by the Constitution to compete, instead having the notoriety and maximum popularity as deputy public prosecutor in Milan, he recognized – his kindness – that it is necessary to "restore credibility to politics" and even maintain the preferential vote. And restore it where it was removed, even though the voters who still have it at local level have deplorably depreciated it, at least in Puglia, to a miserable 50 euros each, or a gas cylinder.
Yet he, again Di Pietro, is one of those who about thirty years ago, parading in the corridors of the Palace of Justice or in the Gallery of Milan with his fellow magistrates, contributed significantly to the demolition of politics. Or at least of the parties that were protagonists or actors, practically all of whom were guillotined and buried with the so-called First Republic. Not even the one he created, calling it, if I remember correctly, Italia dei Valori, starting with the branded ones, was saved from the bad representation of the parties.
THE NATIONAL NEWSPAPER 'S INTERVIEW WITH DI PIETRO
In an interview given to the so-called Quotidiano Nazionale , which groups Il Giorno, il Resto del Carlino and La Nazione in geographically descending order, Di Pietro said that "at the time of Mani Pulite", the one that saw him among the protagonists on the judicial side , “public opinion was close to the judiciary because it saw it as a fight between cops and robbers”. Where the guards were naturally him, his colleagues and the judicial police at their disposal and the thieves were the parties, all financed – some more or less – illegally, taking money without recording it in the balance sheets and thinking, or rather deluding themselves, that no one for this reason he would have started reporting or blackmailing others.
“Today – added Di Pietro, taking it out on the press which about thirty years ago was very useful in judicial investigations – also due to controlled information, public opinion sees a gang war. This is why he is not interested in voting."
In fact, an Ipsos survey just published by Corriere della Sera attributes 52.5 percent to abstentionism and its surroundings.
It's a shame that the interviewer didn't have the time, the foresight, the courage – call it what you want – to ask Di Pietro whether those magistrates, his former colleagues, could or should also be attributed to the gangs whose war he heard , who in Puglia directly or indirectly – it doesn't matter – have provided the president of the region Michele Emiliano, who is also their colleague on leave, with information useful for resigning this or that councilor in an attempt to avoid having his council also engulfed in their judicial troubles. And himself.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/antonio-di-pietro-intervista-quotidiano-nazionale/ on Sun, 21 Apr 2024 07:11:14 +0000.