Corriere della Sera 6:12:10
Fistarol the PD: the Senate can do half the group like me
M. Gu.
ROME - Bersani has tried to hold him, and so did Veltroni. Maurizio Fistarol spoke with both, he listened to ideas, flattery, and perhaps also advances, thanked him for "sincerity and sympathy" with the Secretary and his predecessor, but he changed his mind. He got his wealth of political experience - which has seen him for eight years mayor of Belluno, MP and Senator - and "certainly not a light heart," has moved into the mixed group .
not to put on the market ahead of parliamentary confidence vote when not. However, to adhere to the "new pole of Fini Casini and as senator Northwards, the political movement that I founded with Massimo Cacciari and boasts membership in all provinces of the north. "
He wrote in the letter to "dear friends" of the Democratic Party, which informed them that it would be off the train: "I believe that a different season, that our country urgently needs, can only come with the initiative of new pole that is taking shape ...». In honor of its guidelines, "consistency and fairness," he informed the former traveling companions had not contacted "one member of Pd" to convince him to join to the north. Now will have to modify its website, deleting the entry 'Democrats' and the insignia of the olive branch that still recall the season Prodi. Of which "Bersani was one of the worst players less."
twenty-first is the farewell of a parliamentary Pd and, it now says the former national coordinator of the Forum theme , may not be the last. "If I were to make a prediction after a chat with fellow senators, I think that half of the PD group is about to exit," smiles Fistarol bitter. One who loves the silence of the Dolomites and, by temperament, not slamming doors. Criticism is hard, but try to express it with grace: "The Democratic Party has no capacity expansion outside the fences of the left. How do you think about going to vote with Vendola and Di Pietro, perhaps redoing the Union? ". Next next.
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04/12/2010 Padova
Fistarol LEAVE PD - Philippines: "NO REAL ALTERNATIVE WITHOUT PD"
Rosanna Philippines, regional secretary of the pd, replication with a statement to the open letter to members of the Democratic Party released today by Senator Maurice Fistarol, confirming the news of his accession to the north.
-------"The letter of Senator Maurice Fistarol - explains the Philippines - officially una notizia di fatto già nota. La sua adesione a Verso Nord è una scelta che spiace: politicamente legittima, ma basata sul presupposto di un’analisi che non condivido. Il Partito Democratico non è una forza residuale o di testimonianza. È il perno indispensabile e inaggirabile di qualsiasi progetto di alternativa. Mentre la crisi finale del berlusconismo passa ovviamente anche dal ruolo di forze che appartengono al campo del centrodestra, una nuova stagione per il paese non potrà mai aprirsi senza il concorso e il protagonismo del Pd. Proprio per questo però concordo con Fistarol sul fatto che la strada dei democratici continuerà ad incrociare in futuro il percorso di chi, come lui, continuerà a battersi per un progetto di paese nettamente alternative to that offered by a crisis center right now in the final. "
's letter Fistarol:
Belluno, December 4, 2010
Dear friends,
after a long and difficult reflection I decided to leave in the coming days PD group of the Senate and join the Mixed Group, it is right that there send (although very briefly) the reasons. I wanted to do it before the news was the object of attention by the media, but the mechanisms of communication are not controllable.
The Democratic Party is unfortunately not the reasons for which he was born and I'm gone difficulty convincing myself that way, structural, he meets can not be overcome. The amalgamation of the stories, cultures and sensitivities that compose it had failed: too many in fact, the PD is a summation of different groups that are not a common house. What I care most about: the PD has no capacity expansion beyond the traditional barriers of the left, being incompatible with the heart of the Italian electorate. Thus, the PD has a significant task, for which I am a big consideration, but not the function which was geared all my political and administrative activity since the early 90s. And this happens in a bipolar (Unfortunately) was botched, and the left is likely to play the disastrous experience of the Union, in a different guise. I do not think really that the alternative to Berlusconi may be declining the alliance with Di Pietro and Vendola.
with the natural difficulties and contradictions, I believe that a different political season, that our country urgently needs, can only come with the initiative of the new Polo taking shape, this also motivates my choice of Parliament. Those who know me well I understand the consistency of what I do with my ideas. I want you to know that in recent weeks not a single member of PD has been contacted by me to join Towards North or at least to share my decision. I am convinced that the malaise in the PD choices produce similar, but what moves me is not the intention of damaging the party, but only the need to find meaning and motivation to my political commitment and to do what I believe is right.
I think there are still significant opportunities to meet with those who continued his activism in PD. And I really hope that, whatever the thought of each of you the comparison can be made with the respect and friendship that, in any case of me not to be missed.
