Pier Luigi Bersani, meeting in Florence with Renzi, 01/02/2013



Beautiful meeting, thank you for being here, thank you all, thank you Matthew, all of you for this opportunity that we offer together to the great battle of the Democratic Party. I start from here, from the first days of this campaign and of course the music and the lyrics of Nannini say well what we mean by a fair election campaign: 'I remember you' and I remember that the life of the common people in the transition more difficult since the war and this should be the object of this inevitable election campaign. We are in the most difficult phase of the war to date, the issue should be how do we come out.

Unfortunately, as you see this is not the object of discussion and we have to say that we are still too bitter, or the festival of the promises or generic attack the opponent without that we can put in issue the country's future. We still have some 'time, we hope we can straighten this campaign, let me say the outrage over the fact that in these early days of the election campaign, we saw the promises, of tales shameful and not worthy of a serious country. The last three days .. three days ago we had a beautiful day because you have reduced taxes by adding 30 billion on Italy Monti and Berlusconi, 30 billion. I passed in Milan, Maroni know what it does? Removes the IMU, he removes Irap and also takes away the car tax. That had already taken off, if not noticed, it had already removed Berlusconi.

But the biggest I saw her turn in Sicily: Beppe Grillo, who roams the streets of Sicily, in front of young people out of work, in a very dire situation, difficult everywhere, but really disastrous in that land, and goes there and promises EUR 1,000 per month for all three years. Mal counted 100 billion euro. I would say at least Lauro gave him a packet of pasta .. promises and if not aggression, a bit 'of beatings as suggested by the guru, because now we have gurus who come from America and say' never mind the problems, attacks opponents', if not that then the gurus come home, the problems remain. But how? I do not know .. Even Professor Monti now, he remembered a moment ago Matthew, Professor Monti in a year did not find fault never heard the Democratic Party .. are fifteen days every day is a defect to the Democratic Party. At least he held within the joke .. today was really unhappy, because you can tell everything in politics, but not to hurt a project like ours, which is a huge renovation project of which he does not even have a vague idea. The right? The right attacks with his usual system, now let me raise here a pebble in the shoe ..

Monte dei Paschi. Then, I also want to be here to launch the right message .. if you think it is an issue. In that event there was an excess of localism in the years from which you had and you have to free themselves of this net .. not azzardassero, I have already in the hands of lawyers, it is clear that we are not the shrinking violet, and I will not accept that make us the sermon of people who have deleted the false accounting that will be re-introduced on the first day that we were to rule and do not accept to be depicted as the ones in hand with banks .. who has made mortgage portability? Who went about the overdraft in the bank, to remove it and then have it put back? My door they are screaming banks, behind the door of Tremonti I never heard screaming.

So do not s'azzardassero and began to address the situation as befits a serious country because this story suggests that we seriously address the issue .. and then when the judiciary has finished .. because here there is a theme .. we are calling for a parliamentary committee of inquiry on the use of derivatives that must be put completely under the rule, like for example that not enough quite clearly the rules to make it readable in the financial statements the existence of derivatives,

we are in a universe that does not have the tools to monitor this situation and therefore in our opinion should be ascertained trades derivatives only to those banks that are subject to supervision or the Bank of Italy or of countries that recognize the closeness of the European . You know what they're doing with the Tobin tax? They not are paying. The Monti government has done only pay the Stock Exchange, the azioni..diamo look at this world, we give a set in this universe .. and come to us.

I said that we want to set the campaign away from problems, I believe that we have good reasons for not calling a vote illegal, we are Italians in front and behind a work that is done before all of consistency,

we are a party that has done what he said, he did it when he sang the magnificent destiny of an Italy 'consumers consumed, zero problems, we are better than others, the crisis is psychological' and all coryphaei to play the violin .. we we never fooled, we held our positions, a sign that we told it like it was .. we said at some point we will support a transitional government until the last day, we said we did, I liked it or not, but we did .. we said we will do the primaries for the leading candidate, the candidate will choose leaders not alone and even with a constitution, we will do the primaries, we made ..

They are hoping that what happened? Matthew is right, I'm with him I believed, believed in him that we would make progress .. and I want Matthew to recognize that he was a protagonist of this great enlargement of influence, capacity for relationships, credibility of our party because you have to take risks if you want to change something and you do see a change because without some tears in the jacket, without some suffering is not credible, right? We said that we wanted to do this. And we said we will do the primaries for MPs, we will kill the porcellum says .. but for Christmas? It kills for Christmas is for centuries. We made and I would like to point out what we deliver these primaries for MPs: who gives us lessons in Europeanism because, in the words of Matthew and I agree, it's not only the European fiscal compact? Europe is for example how many women there are in parliament .. we will have 40% of women.

Monti is telling the president how many women in Parliament sends? You tell me how many Berlusconi, Ingroia, Grillo? .. Because here you change not just in words, to the facts and we will have a renovated room for attention .. .. around two-thirds, never happened in the history of a major party since the beginning of the Republic today .. and then also the new ones who have to come, that they go immediately into training ..



for a renewal incredible, this gave us the primaries, the primaries have given us that we are in all the territories of the country, there is no province where we will not have a representative, we'll do half the Italian union territories because others there are, in many places in Italy, have made of the sorts of things .. I was in Liguria the other day, damn .. Berlusconi must recognize that there is one who does not lack the gratitude that put Minzolini leaders in Liguria has to be one .. in Veneto, you go in Veneto, we attack young women, their three list headers for defense lawyers, Ghedini, Paniz and the other I do not remember .. crazy stuff!

We start well, it took courage, consistency and then we start well .. but beware of sirens who say 'the Democratic Party has already won', there are not a pleasure, mind well, because this idea that you can put in votes between freedom left, center and right, he waited the significant point here that the player who comes first, and then I say and I repeat and I think you have to put it that way, it's clear that the votes are all helpful and they all have the same dignity, no one doubts this: there is a useful vote in the sense that one wants to signal a radical protest, there is a useful vote because he wants to join an idea to testify, but if you look for a useful vote to beat right there is only One: Italy Common Good, the Democratic Party. This is a fact. And right there, there is in this country and we will try to fight with the right. And so we will report our topics .. we know that we are in the crisis, which is a global crisis, let us always remember this because the global crisis stems from the mechanisms of inequality in the real economy, in social arrangements, it comes from the fact that wealth is is gained not by the side of welfare, wages, of a social but from the side of finance that created multipliers who have poured on the real economy, on investment, on public budgets .. Europe locked in here, stuttering, stammering, and we know that because it is blocked because the day after the euro, especially in Italy, the day after spread of advanced right battled out on the idea of ​​folding, on the idea that each one is saved alone , the idea that you have to be careful if you have a weaker near you will take away a euro, and you must be careful to your territory, your corporation .. all. One idea that has dismantled the matter is that Europe's solidarity, instead of building - let me say so - a cooperative we put on a condominium, where sometimes turns an accountant .. and we ended up in this situation here. And so we have to take from there, next week we will have an important meeting of European progressives here in Italy, we will launch a platform that will tell you what - I do not speak of the details - say ok to the balance of the accounts, but this is an issue of medium period,

the urgent issue is to do a little 'investments and give a little' work. This is the theme, and there are mechanisms. And here in Italy in this matter: even here in these three weeks of campaigning, I see that on TV it is hard but if you have to talk to people - as has already been said - that you do not rewrite the history of 'Italy in the last two years here because some people have a short memory because the story was so, now I intend to make a reminder: the financial crisis has arrived on Greece, of course Europe instead of saying' I'll pay and then I arrange accounts with Greece '- I have used the example of a child under 13 who has the flu and his mother tells him to pay the doctor, she pays him no - he did .. so Europe would not have happened what it happened, but since it was done so the market was expecting one by one as the ten little Indians cascassimo, then it was up to us. Because it was up to us? Because we were not where we needed to be, in a very exposed, where we should not be either for budget, nor for disruption of the relationship between citizens and institutions, unable to put his hand to the reforms .. we were in the most exposed after years and years of misgovernment, and then it was up to us.

And 'there that Europe has called Tremonti and Berluska and said' come a little 'here, or mica but you know that you are not mica Greece? You're too big to be saved, if you skip the euro falls'. What is? And what do you want to do? What could they say? Here the reforms? Because we talked about Ruby from morning to night, for years and months. Or he could say: here I do not reform, but believe me we will do we will do we will do .. .. credibility reduced to zero, and then they told him 'you hear signed here', and signed a balanced budget that had not signed anyone, 2013, cash is badly in two years more than 90 billion Euros for maneuver, then we are surprised that reach of the beating, of the things that .. signed, are back down to Rome, but he could no longer think that they could hold something of this kind. And it happened, our initiative we have sent home Berlusconi, and

Now there are people telling me 'there Monti regretted it?', no I did not regret it a big party when you do what is good for his country he made his, made a right stuff. And our people have realized and we have not weakened by this: even when we had to support the things that we did not like .. but possible that in this whole agenda, the little word esodati me want to write, you yourself say that there there is a hole, a problem? We did not like not, now ..

school, never mind how she was slapped in the past year, forward-reverse gears, never mind, now I feel 'stretches the holidays, shortens the holidays', everything now .. I say we because the school is open from morning to evening provided is standing that school because we do not have years annorum that maintenance of our heritage school except in some reality.

We do this because you have to do it, with an exception to the Stability Pact with the municipalities to start a bit 'of work for these things here .. but she said a serious stuff? The transitional government, with our help, because I have never sent nor a esodato, nor a precarious school, nor an unemployed Napoli them mica sent from Fornero said .. this can not be the government and the logical ones that give a perspective to the country, we need a policy, a program of ideas .. And here we come: I have already mentioned the two words of the next legislature: morality and work, make Italy the right. And let's start with the first: first because Matthew said a very important thing in which I believe strongly that if a country does not look in the mirror with a sense of self, where are you? We can not do anything unless you restore a minimum ratio of institutions - citizen - political, if Italy does not take a great sense of self from the country into the European civilization.

There are beautiful words that are honest, we are not certain moral authority, we must make laws, but to encourage those who do good to those who do not for evil, and we must know that we start this thing from the policy, we start from the concept that one He does not go to the grocery store with public money. Either you understand or you go with the shovel, it'll do you understand. Wow! And must we do the steps of the common sense things ..

the only two things that we brought home in a legislature, where the majority said that this was the nephew of Mubarak then what was the level, the abolition of annuities and halving of public funding for parties in a difficult moment for the country. . But must we move forward.

There is no reason why an MP earns more than a mayor, because from there .. the first hundred days? False accounting takes, it takes anti-corruption standards, self laundering, exchange of voting mafia takes, we have to see where there are deposits in the market, those conflicts of interest, how many markets on equal terms, antitrust laws, competition consumers, who have to put ourselves in motion the party system, a law on political parties ..

but how is your internal democracy, as

select your leadership, what are the mechanisms of participation, what is the ethical code for access to applications, as you do with the funds? All. And from there to join this thing, raise the issue of human rights. Being in Europe really, in the great European civilization. To live up to what we are, who we were in the story .. there are things in which we have looked with Berlusconi and the League with the rearview mirror,

this thing here of immigrant children is a shame, because otherwise we solve not know what kind of world we go, the civil unions of gay couples solve it as it resolves all over Europe, as do the Germans, equal generally we've made enormous progress in this matter but there is still to do and also other rights, I remember always that of the workers to have representation mechanisms recognized when deciding .. is a citizen's right worker.

I want to mention in particular the issue of the right to study, 50,000 fewer university, we are the only ones in the world, is returning to the classism in access to studies, we can not stand .. and tell you who want to study and can not, He receives an injury to his dignity, and so on .. we have to be able to give a little 'shock to this country.

It 's too important to the theme of the civilization of democracy because it is there that we put all.

And then we come to work, even here I will not go into too much detail .. there is a system of rules to adjust, outbound rules in the relationship with esodati, against insecurity in the stabilization that is in no way encouraged to one gets a salary below the minimum subsistence because it is not protected, but then it is not only with the rules that the work here because you have to work, and work it from. Serve investment, it is not that there are so many other recipes.

And here in the name of the one carried out also that there is a moral fight tax evasion, which I will call for loyalty tax, in five years we get to the European average of allegiance tax. Resolve a lot of problems and do not tell me how to do, how you do not do. Because around there Tremonti saying 'yeah but then the cards where you can find, and how does the old lady?',

I've always said since it was giving the social card 'caricagliela well then she tells you, the old lady, how do you' .. because we hide behind the old woman .. turns too much cash, the other party turns less cash. And 'useless about banks that banks think they gain from the emergence of electronic money because for them it is organizing a savings, so they can earn, it is clear. In other countries the tax, now also starts from us - we will see in practice - the IRS can go see any financial movement, any movement bank in privacy etc .. because we reason from that of equity, no I'm talking about assets estate, for real estate assets that are there, you see them, we can correct the asset .. making it more progressive by exempting a band of lower quality, by exempting also a range of small business production and loading on large estates, but when it comes mobile asset, namely finance, we have a mapping of the rich. If there is a small percentage that says more than 100 thousand Euros, I can not stake out those always there, that slice of the middle class which is impoverishing and that you continue to load .. there must be others out and you pay bit 'all. Because among other things I know that here there are many administrators, I was President of the Region, and we know very well - because we have a kind of conviction that in the great welfare services we are for a universal concept, there is poor or rich, we can not give up on this .. I'm talking about health, education and so on. then there is a huge problem of sustainability, of balance of this system, and a small hand gives you the tax if you have mechanisms that can support the situation, contribution .. I was in Geneva and taxis, the machine, if you take a fine to pay according to income. It was us who pay taxes have to pay him even multoni .. but you can not .. so true operation of emergence, and finally do not have to turn too easily for elusive capital for half of Europe, we call a spade some things that we are now calling avoidance, evasion .. call them and turns them big stuff, other than income-it will not be a curse as well as they say it is not the instrument that pulls us out of here.

And then resources, which come from this, abasement desirable rates, selling a bit 'of public assets, not how he says Brunetta who gets up and says .. things .. 400 billion last year across Europe have mobilized public housing for 10 billion euro. Already we input we have made 15 billion budget, so we are already uphill own .. But you have to do. All the efforts that we can do, where we throw them? We have to throw them to reduce the workload, the burden on the weaker sectors that need to consume and to lend a hand to those who invest to provide jobs with a little 'of public investment starting from the works of Commons.

This is what we must do, then .. there are things in here. Matthew, in his country has always stressed

a theme that I want to take this opportunity to say is sacrosanct .. maybe then I told you with the same enthusiasm .. that this is less red tape, and they can do the stuff, go back a moment to the concept of industrial policy, to try to understand how you can stimulate investment ... then we have a housing very low and we can not consume territory, point: this is the axiom. All right, we have to find mechanisms for reuse, not only environmental restoration of the house, also of lodging facilities, there is a green economy that has been left in the lurch,

there is a chance to put our hand to the major fields of transport,

you have to start our project of industrial policy for 2015, we must take back that filo.Insomma, must we focus on all the things that can provide jobs, the next Parliament should be on the real economy with pragmatism, seriousness because something can be done . I want to finish this intervention a moment returning to politics. Now, I said we are the right alternative, Berlusconi, the League, to populism, and we alternate with the goal of the country's government and a legislature stable. To do this fight, a little 'more boldly, yes Sbrano them really, because when I hear that Maroni rightly posters for a regional advisor has spent EUR 2.7 for the Nutella (true, false ..) the same day which the Court of Auditors certifies that yesterday on the issue of milk quotas Italian taxpayers have paid 4.5 billion euro because who took the fines do not pay and did not pay and Berlusconi and the League accomplices, not made gliel'hanno pay while the honest farmers have spent themselves 1.8 billion to buy regular shares, then the insult of having to pay the fees and also pay 4.5 billion as taxpayers.

We have in front of these people here and you have to cantargliele a bit ', sometimes I see a little' .. But I wanted to tell you that the ending point of the bottom of this election campaign - and I know how difficult it is to transmit though .. here we are many, we, you know - the bottom point of this campaign is that here we play only the government, we can be an alternative to the political system as it is organized in twenty years. And I have already said and I will repeat it: what has been built over the last twenty years under Berlusconi, when parts of the wall after an Italy of the discrediting of politics, he came with his message demagogic, populist, extreme customizability. That mechanism has led us to ruin, not Berlusconi, the mechanism Berlusconi, has brought us to ruin .. but why we had to get on the precipice, to be able to take it away? Because he could not pull it off two years earlier? Throughout Italy, even his parliamentary group said it could not hold up, how do you pull it off? Kill him? How do you do? There is no party, there is no democracy, there is a customization, is the master .. here is that the mechanism of customization creates a dangerous rigidity, instability creates a very dangerous because you go as a country in trouble is if someone says' I'm in love with a beautiful Swedish girl and take it and go 'because there's nothing left, and if it stays there because he likes and what the mechanism is and you have no way to correct it, that we have explained the political science for decades .. we want to ask ourselves a question: but what mechanism there is growing or shrinking? Via Berlusconi who is? He must stay there, there's nothing if not. Via Monti, via Grillo who is? Via Ingroia who is? Yeah but not bastiamo for democracy, attention .. what you play here: we like you say, we work for years, three years ago I said that I would not put my name on the sign, that after the primaries with Renzi one might as well put the name, all the others put him they have chosen for themselves .. not good, there is no democracy in the world that works well, no .. there is the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party is for Italy , that will be so for the next 30 years, 50 years .. the party of solidarity, Europe, the nation, of an Italy right, this will in these elections and beyond the elections. Thank you all, thanks Matthew.
