5-11-06, 9:27 am
After the victory of the Union's center-left coalition in Italy of which Rifondazione is a part with its remarkable result, as we told you in our last information, we will support a government with Romano Prodi as a prime minister and our party will take part in it, because a very important step has been made: we defeated Berlusconi. Now we intend to rule Italy towards a change and to help the rise of a new political subject of the alternative left in Italy, which is now stronger after this election outcome and commits us to building an Italian EL section.
The new president of the republic elected by the Chamber of Deputies, the Senate and regional representatives in joint ballots which are at present running - will charge Romano Prodi as prime minister to form a new government.
In the meanwhile new events have occurred.
On April 29 Fausto Bertinotti has been elected as president or speaker of the Chamber of Deputies with 337 votes – 32 votes more than the absolute majority needed (305) in the forth ballot.
Immediately after his election Fausto Bertinotti declared: 'I dedicate my presidency of this chamber to working women and working men.'
During his inaugural speech he said: 'The people should have the possibility to trust their democratic institutions, so that they can be freed by plagues such as the mafia, and live in safety intended as the right to access to future chances. There is a danger of separation between ordinary life and politics, which may lead to social marginalization of the weaker classes. We have to set up a positive relationship between the real life of the country and institutions. We have to create a new perspective of social justice for citizen women and men. Institutions are vital only if the civil society grows up with them. I wish that dialogue prevail in this parliament and a danger of confrontation between friends and enemies be banned from it. I wish all of us were pilgrims to the places were our constitution was born, where partisans and Italians died to win freedom back. Those are the places where the roots of our republic are settled, where our constitution with its and our irreducible choice for peace was born, and where we have to find the roots and the strength to outline the future of Italy, Europe and the world.'
And moreover he declared: 'Education is for us is one of the bases of the living-together, in which teachers are a heritage for the country and can do a precious work.'
On May 7 during a PRC National Political Committee meeting and after Fausto Bertinotti's resignation, Franco Giordano, former chairman of the PRC parliamentary group at the lower chamber (until 2006), has been elected as new PRC national secretary with 68.81% of the vote. He is 48, was born in Bari, southern Italy, started his political activity at the Fgci, the PCI youth in the 1970s in struggles for laborers' and peasants' rights. During the 1980s he became a member of the Fgci executive board. In 1991, the PRC foundation year, he joined the party where he has been member of the executive board and has been re-elected as MP. In his first speech as party secretary, by stressing the importance of the political and cultural innovation to grant an independent strategic project, he said: 'We shall never be neutralized in institutions or government. We want to make live our research and our action for an alternative society…. We sail at high sea and all of us have to take the helm in search for a course…. Italy as delivered by the Berlusconi government is strongly divided socially and culturally we have to contribute to re-build a new shared and open society. I intensively feel my Mediterranean cultural roots, I think we have to re-shape that memory and that world in which different civilizations lived together and exchanged riches and cultures'.
On May 8 Gennaro Migliore has been elected chairman of the PRC group at the Chamber of Deputies, 37, born in Naples, head of the PRC International and Peace Area since 2001, he started his political commitment by struggling against the Neapolitan organized crime and in the students' movement. In 1994, when he joined the PRC, he took part in organizing the first G7 counter-summit in Naples. Talking about his engagement at the parliament he declared: 'We will demand a motion for a pull-out of the Italian troops from Iraq, and then, the immediate cancellation of the anti-migrant law and the prohibitionist law on drugs. Moreover, I wish a parliamentary committee were established on July 20, day of Carlo Giuliani's death, to investigate on the Genoa events'.
Rome, 9th May 2006
