Bersani on Qatargate: “We have not betrayed Berlinguer. The moral question hangs over everyone”

“Qatar, Panzeri and surroundings. It will be long and we need to react. Those behaviors are a spit in the face of the left in Italy, the European institutions and NGOs around the world. Having said that, let’s not underestimate the poisonous insinuations that arrive: ‘But how can we not did you know them?’ Yes, we knew them, not evidently enough and after all if it took 5 European secret services it wasn’t so easy to understand…”. Pier Luigi Bersani comments on the Qatargate scandal that shook the European Parliament. He does it in video connection to the national assembly of Article 1, which began yesterday after the demonstration of the Democratic Party, to bring his own contribution of ideas for the Constituent Assembly of the left.

“They say: ‘You have betrayed Berlinguer’. Eh, no. Now we have to take note that politics is not able to act as a filter of individual behavior and therefore the moral question hangs over everyone and the issue is how to embank it. And therefore we let’s say: dear right, the moral issue concerns everyone but do you think that we can put a stop to it by trivializing crimes of corruption, hindering wiretapping beyond the lawful, thinking of always putting politics away from the judiciary, making cascading subcontracts? isn’t it a question of putting his hand to further measures?”.

“If anything, if it weren’t taken as a moralism, there is something that the left should resume from old habits, such as asking for a solemn pronouncement from those who assume managerial roles, asking them to answer a question: but you know that among their duties of Is there also the direction of setting an example of honesty and sobriety? Once upon a time we asked the militants, the members, can we ask the leaders?

In the opposition camp, “the idea is that everyone is waiting for the European elections, weights and measures are recorded there and you see who directs the traffic. I find all this insane and it will make us look like Renzi’s chickens in the coming months and allows the right to have a breakthrough in the company that has not had so far. The times are not those, the test bench is already here – continued Bersani at the meeting of Article 1 – So Pd and 5 Stars must show the ability in the coming weeks to give rise to something new, open up a horizon by managing a common battle because we say more or less the same things on crucial points”.