interview published on "Corriere di Livorno" July 21, 2008
Already many words have been spent trying to understand how the Democratic Party is taking shape, with such features and, above all, if you're really answering to the strong demand for participation by their constituents and many citizens.
responses, it clearly is, there are very encouraging and are showing "pockets" of voters from the increasingly large PD who face great expectations of participatory democracy have felt and feel objectively disappointed.
Livorno did not appear to be free of these feelings and the reference, the last in chronological order, the discomfort expressed by the coordinator of the club Ardenza Gabriella Cecchi is one clear example.
I myself long ago, I had many occasions to express my (and not only my) disappointment with choices very interventionist and less participatory, from the Black List for the Constituent Assembly until the hoax of the so-called "primariette. The latest "gem" was the (only) town meeting organized only through a succession of several interventions on various general topics in which nothing has been decided or at least discussed in detail specific issues. This is also serious because it could mean the contempt (or failure) by the local management decision-making body in respect of the one true city and participated at the time that we have. He is also a species that, from the PD and its delegates, not be weighing in on the great voices of protest, at least out of respect for intellectual property.
All this happened not only thanks to choices and responsibilities at national level but is also attributable to a high level of deliberate inaction at least part of the local elites of former DS and Margherita. And 'that happened when you found yourself having to make real choices for change, has (have) decided to continue on the path of suicidal children "Manuals Cencelli" Livorno rather than follow a new path and shared. In two words, the personal priorities of a few have had the best on the interest of many legitimate. Directed against participation, personal oligarchy and democracy. And 'the last straw for a party that is called democracy. The case of the circle Ardenza is a clear example where, beyond right and wrong, we force the resignation of a coordinator to be directly elected in a transparent manner and only a few months ago as the Bylaws, as amended. Besides, in order to fool the promoters of this initiative since it was created in ways a dangerous precedent. Indeed, beyond the goodness of specific reasons, nothing could prevent other clubs both in and out of Livorno to feel entitled to their own committee and self-legitimizing "lay off" a de facto coordinator / her democratically elected. This in spite of those rules of participation that we are painstakingly building but instead of following the policy of arrogance and shouted very little reflected and discussed. And instead of building is destroyed (what little there is). Instead of solving real problems will grow and regress, and the people, citizens, voters seem to go away. Rightly, if this is the spectacle.
The question, however, is substantial: "But the Democratic Party, the real, where is it?". The reality seems to be paradoxically very clear. There's a party perceived as 'dummy', then that is what it looks like and that seems to be experienced by many people because of the dynamic first expressed. After all, it is true that you can not think of creating a party without going through moments truly participatory and demand to be loved by both 'people'. Mica people are stupid. The answer, perhaps even too trivial, it is true that the party that participated with passion, where there is no fear of confrontation and even genuinely primary mechanisms of truly democratic Well, that party is yet to be built. Because of the organizations and the Regulations in the middle there are people. And if I look at the numbers this party "true" is coming along slowly, shyly, but maybe in a very decided, well the numbers of those who are in the "real party" is really high. At least the same, about 14,000, who enthusiastically founded the party 14 October 2007, and perhaps others who do not know. It is up to all those who believe in the spirit of democratic and participatory put an end and decided to quit with the methods that have very little of this and much of the worst past and are likely to run screaming many of the founders. Daniel
Bettinetti
Livorno did not appear to be free of these feelings and the reference, the last in chronological order, the discomfort expressed by the coordinator of the club Ardenza Gabriella Cecchi is one clear example.
I myself long ago, I had many occasions to express my (and not only my) disappointment with choices very interventionist and less participatory, from the Black List for the Constituent Assembly until the hoax of the so-called "primariette. The latest "gem" was the (only) town meeting organized only through a succession of several interventions on various general topics in which nothing has been decided or at least discussed in detail specific issues. This is also serious because it could mean the contempt (or failure) by the local management decision-making body in respect of the one true city and participated at the time that we have. He is also a species that, from the PD and its delegates, not be weighing in on the great voices of protest, at least out of respect for intellectual property.
All this happened not only thanks to choices and responsibilities at national level but is also attributable to a high level of deliberate inaction at least part of the local elites of former DS and Margherita. And 'that happened when you found yourself having to make real choices for change, has (have) decided to continue on the path of suicidal children "Manuals Cencelli" Livorno rather than follow a new path and shared. In two words, the personal priorities of a few have had the best on the interest of many legitimate. Directed against participation, personal oligarchy and democracy. And 'the last straw for a party that is called democracy. The case of the circle Ardenza is a clear example where, beyond right and wrong, we force the resignation of a coordinator to be directly elected in a transparent manner and only a few months ago as the Bylaws, as amended. Besides, in order to fool the promoters of this initiative since it was created in ways a dangerous precedent. Indeed, beyond the goodness of specific reasons, nothing could prevent other clubs both in and out of Livorno to feel entitled to their own committee and self-legitimizing "lay off" a de facto coordinator / her democratically elected. This in spite of those rules of participation that we are painstakingly building but instead of following the policy of arrogance and shouted very little reflected and discussed. And instead of building is destroyed (what little there is). Instead of solving real problems will grow and regress, and the people, citizens, voters seem to go away. Rightly, if this is the spectacle.
The question, however, is substantial: "But the Democratic Party, the real, where is it?". The reality seems to be paradoxically very clear. There's a party perceived as 'dummy', then that is what it looks like and that seems to be experienced by many people because of the dynamic first expressed. After all, it is true that you can not think of creating a party without going through moments truly participatory and demand to be loved by both 'people'. Mica people are stupid. The answer, perhaps even too trivial, it is true that the party that participated with passion, where there is no fear of confrontation and even genuinely primary mechanisms of truly democratic Well, that party is yet to be built. Because of the organizations and the Regulations in the middle there are people. And if I look at the numbers this party "true" is coming along slowly, shyly, but maybe in a very decided, well the numbers of those who are in the "real party" is really high. At least the same, about 14,000, who enthusiastically founded the party 14 October 2007, and perhaps others who do not know. It is up to all those who believe in the spirit of democratic and participatory put an end and decided to quit with the methods that have very little of this and much of the worst past and are likely to run screaming many of the founders. Daniel
Bettinetti
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