The paper "Venice sustainable cities" made public last Saturday put fibrillation in more than one political party. Some people seem concerned about the cross-cutting nature of the proposal, because someone else with this initiative - it says - it calls into question the primacy of political parties in advancing autonomous platforms.
I believe however that both of these characters - and cross-disciplinary autonomy of the political - should be welcomed, because they are substantial innovations in landscape political and institutional Venetian.
start heterogeneity of the promoters and members to this proposal. It is - it's true - people are very different in terms of political history, a professional profile and age. Some have done or do political work, both inside and outside the party, others have participated in past years town community life. If you really want to restart a political speech, transparent, positive and dynamic nature of this biodiversity is a value, not a defect. To those who say that this increases the degree of confusion, it is worth the confusion to argue that those who create every day supply the city by filling the gossip magazines of empty threads or adding yet another name to the long list of full-mayor.
The autonomy of this initiative, a first result has already been reached, led to a significant acceleration in the internal debate to the secretariats of the parties and the papers of notables sparigliato and "influential" local.
is worth remembering, who unfortunately has forgotten what should be the policy, that civil society itself is autonomous if it realizes that the power of the parties is dormant and low in political proposal, it can not abdicate its responsibilities but must take the initiative. Therefore, stimulating a renewed dialogue, including within parties is a prerequisite for a political society alive.
Why should anyone be afraid? Why you should not accept an open debate but tight, direct but civil, can read with new eyes the Venetian society, its needs and its challenges?
By filing this document, it was proposed a path that calls for discussion to the contribution of everyone - political parties, associations and individuals - to check if a combination of quality and produces, in spite of and against the organized lobbies and conservative interests.
What counts is the discussion of ideas, solutions on the viability and coherence of the content in this proposal. It 's a starting point not the end, much can be amended, supplemented, improved. We call on all to participate in this political fact.
The novelty of this method needs to be jealously guarded. And then, out of respect for the many who have joined, do not always tell who are the "grand old men" to operate the ship as if it were only the most useful idiots willing to be the mass of maneuver strategies consumed a few strategists. Of course, those who believe that politics is nothing but the art of maneuver, cleverly seasoning it all with a fair amount of rhetoric can not even conceive of new forms of participation and policy development may appear and consolidate.
Let me be clear: we want in the coming months this is a truly open debate, and not just a ploy to wrest a bit of bargaining power with the party secretaries and apparatus of all time. This requires
mark clearly who the real partners of this proposal. We want to turn first to all those citizens who in recent years have abdicated their social and political voice. First, young people and those among them who, never having experienced public places of debate and confrontation, do not believe that you can re-open spaces of genuine democracy. We turn to the "resident non-resident" which means those who live in this city, work and study; we turn to without a vote, to migrants, helping to create wealth but they seem almost invisible.
To speak with the many different pieces of Venetian society requires new forms and languages. Not enough newspapers and not enough public meetings and formal meetings. We must be able to put in the field of communication and meeting less distant and more direct: we must find and to rediscover the passion of politics, one must speak not only the interests but also the dreams and desires of people.
This is a political town, which remains the only cynical accounts of corporations and personal interests of those involved in public affairs.
Venice city wants to sustainable take up this challenge.
If we interpret the application of new policy that comes from many cultures, communities and towns, where we will make free, open and intelligent political debate, then the municipal elections of 2010 is truly a new appointment. So even
parties and professional politicians can not ignore it and make a brand new scenario will open. The political project of course will find their own way: the definition of the alliances, the relationship between the parties and movements organized associative intended not as a candidate for mayor dominus but as the guarantor of the program, and supported by a team capable of interpreting skills, sensitivity and different cultures and complementary.
Venice can go back to being a genuine political laboratory, because its history and vitality can not be exhausted in sterile reproduction of existing political forms. These practices are now worn out and unrealistic.
why political participation to be effective and without bias, without rhetoric or platitudes, without mandates and without local Mafia bosses. Try now costs nothing but can give interesting results.
Giampietro Pizzo
