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Intervention published on "Corriere di Livorno" in the May 30, 2008

They percipi east. Berkeley, Irish philosopher who lived between 1600 and 1700, so you respond to those who, astonished, let them go to curses and insults about how low we have fallen as citizens and companies from Livorno after yet another incomprehensible absurd scandal that involved us with the story of the Port of Livorno 2000. The perception of reality, and sense of perception of insecurity made system, where the illegal becomes almost a harsh daily life. The problem is beyond the negative hours to get angry or let go to fatalism means taste of the real social defeat, when all we ask where was Livorno, understood as a social community, while all these "irregularities" (to put it mildly) is accomplished in a period of time not too short.
If the allegations are confirmed, we are faced with the characters "casual" acting calmly in an equally casual in which even a minimal form of formal or informal social control seems to have occurred significantly, until the intervention of the judicial investigation. Using a big word, you could say that halo of silence that has meandered and politics as usual, perhaps too busy to conduct a bit 'too self-referential, not she noticed the slightest of what was happening, at least in terms of shared consciousness.
Yes, politics. Institutional politics and party. Where have we been? The question is not rhetorical, I think, quite honest and legitimate. Also because it is not the first time that there is, see other important issues that have had a major impact and consequences of judicial type the story to save 2. Even then the silence and indifference are then dropped and the policy has been largely without words, beyond some controversy and then faded. And here the problem is not trivial because such an absence may justify the common citizen's perception of a sort of connivance between a system politician who seems not to intervene in a meaningful way, even after the scandal erupted, and these situations "irregular" on which it operates "only" the judiciary.
What's the answer? Surely this case suggests the problem of how policy and strategy for modernizing the governance of a territory is placed in front of certain negative phenomena. In other words, we could say that the deviations, for how then will be confirmed by the investigation, have certainly been favored by an absence in this case, once again, of a specific project and long-term strategy on the port. Or at least a project realized in a strong and shared with all citizens and not only in the best assumptions, among the experts or stakeholders.
If there is a vision and a strong project the attention "social" and the public (of all people) is likely always to be less open space and this can also conduct a "happy" that have nothing to dealing with the public good and a lot is indicated, with purely personal interests or "clan". Hence the lesson for those who work and live politics, and as militant as an administrator. That is the task of changing the perception of a political society based on the interests of local clans or small lobby of interest that interact in a self- towards a policy which actually hosts, on the contrary, his true leadership and promotion. And this can be achieved only through the practical implementation of instruments of true participation and the promotion of an equally true capacity to produce ideas and proposals that can be combined into a real project. This is what many are asking and that is becoming increasingly essential. In this sense, in particular, the PD, both as new experience in politics as a party in the strict sense, has a fundamental obligation and a way of method.
The success of the Democratic Party, a party that represents almost all of Livorno ruling class that administers almost all the so-called "great powers", it will be measured on its real capacity to act in reality. The ability to be open to the real needs of reality, the ability to transform instances and ideas that arise in large-scale projects and finally the ability to involve and be able to find on each specific issue and not just the real skills, such as for often, unfortunately, is perceived in the common sense "politicians who speak only of politics." Daniel
Bettinetti

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Where is the project to Livorno?

From the "Corriere di Livorno" in the May 25, 2008

As Martin Luther King said: "We begin to die the day we become indifferent. " Livorno has not always been so and continue to be indifferent to the decline and, conversely, the proposed remedies recipes and random structurally ineffective and in fact just about giving the final push on the descent. I refer in particular to recent analysis by Professor Massimo Paoli publicly expressed and largely agree.
The fundamental problem? What many do not seem to want to explain fully, but that is an assumption in almost trivial: the lack of a project and planning. At all levels. The lack of a "governance" which translated means that the policy is not presiding over any "vision", or medium or long ternine. Missing project political, the economic development project, the project office. Livorno suffers from the worst evil that one can wish that one of the "don'ts" (worse than "hurt") and who lives waiting for some sign from the outside and then finds himself, in fact, manage events and phenomena randomly. It 's so now at least ten years and we, undaunted in the status quo, we're all going on this road passing the time, so to speak, to develop low-ranging discussions and, in the proof of the facts, without concluding that much in terms of solid growth prospects in the future.
At the political level the big event, still the bearer of a great deal of trust and hope, was definitely the birth of the Democratic Party. A great opportunity to try to reverse course and put a condition of planning solutions and proposals for an area, as part of a political party, on the basis of participation as a fundamental and structural. Everything ok, even though many reservations have come out in practice by many including myself, for excessive interventionism and a massive dose of pure co-opted in various stages. But for now we put aside this issue and talk about political project. A gossips whatever, we can get things Livorno, could not help but notice two things objectively. The first is that the Democratic Party, the party that collects the entire ruling class and the "power" of Livorno is in fact a photocopy of the old DS, is the "style" that the names of the "bridge". Then we wonder where we can see the added value of a merger and where the real news. Applications are currently open. The second thing is the lack of a proposal in the parties and PD. It discusses the organization, even in a legitimate way, of primary, all beautiful. But the proposal, the "Project for Livorno" for the next five to ten years where he is? It should not be the first thing upon which to set a serious discussion? The fear is that in this campaign period for local elections, as usual, is simply playing the (poor) people chasing an end in itself and that the time is more important to get slaughtered on the names and the organization and not on programs, which to date have not yet gone out.
No, I'm not there. There I continued to live in the paradox of a city that has not always been so and still brag a high potential for growth and development. There I am, talking about "direct Livorno", according to subject and having to wait for someone to tell me how to behave to "respect the balance," while around the environment becomes increasingly degraded. There is a behavior because I'm stupid, is not part of the political culture I come from, and among other things, is not the reason for which I am working in PD rather the opposite. The first and urgent question, addressed to all and not just a political party then remains: "Where is the project to Livorno?" Especially on that and not only on the names you will have to play the real game of elections. Daniel
Bettinetti