2023-06-23 00:13:19
Dear Aldo,
I believe that even the mayors on the left are in agreement with the government on repealing the abuse of office, because only those who work in the area know that, whatever happens, it is the fault of the mayor, who indeed has the honor of being first citizen, but then, in fact, whatever happens in the territory is his fault, even if it were hail.
Tommaso Pennella Gstaad
I don’t agree with this move by the government, canceling the crime of abuse of office doesn’t seem to me to be inspired by guarantees, but it almost seems like a sort of impunity. What do you think?
Marco Gatti
Dear readers,
Many of you have expressed your criticisms and appreciations of the justice reform. Honestly, I don’t think the fact that convictions for abuse of office are so rare is a good reason to abolish the crime. It is one thing to outline its contours more precisely, to reformulate it, to avoid judicial persecution. Another is to cancel it. Europe is not asking us for more impunity, but on the contrary for more severity in the fight against corruption. And it’s not that we have to do it to please some Eurobureaucrat. We owe it to the respectable Italians. And we owe it to European citizens, who willingly or unwillingly agreed to finance us – this is the Pnrr: common European debt – and rightly ask our country, like others, for minimum standards of efficiency and honesty. Guaranteeing them would make us stronger to enforce our interests in Europe, starting with the request for a common tax system, which avoids us the mockery of tax havens within the Union, from Ireland to Luxembourg. Facing an investigation or trial does not automatically mean being dishonest. It is true that we need to intervene on Italian justice. But the first and foremost criterion of any reform must be to make it work better. Today justice punishes before ascertaining responsibility, with preventive detention, and often the responsibilities are not ascertained. We need investments, means, men, personnel training.
TODAY’S OTHER LETTERS
The injustice
“Me fined and solvent, and those without insurance?”
The other morning I went to the post office to collect a registered letter of which the notice of stock was delivered to me. As I imagined it was a fine, detected by video camera, for having passed in the lane reserved for public transport. I paid right away considering that the stock notice was dated June 13th and therefore, given the days that had already passed, I didn’t have the opportunity to take advantage of the discount you are entitled to if you pay within five days. In spite of myself, I admired the solicitude, efficiency and diligence of the public administration. But while I was returning home a little downcast, the car radio broadcast the news that in just 12 hours more than nine thousand cars passed through Treviso that were not in compliance with the Rca insurance or the inspection (again filmed by the cameras through the targasystem system, that reads users’ license plates and connects to databases to collect data on vehicles and owners), I deduced that evidently the Public Administration is not always so efficient and diligent.
PS. None of those 9,000 will be fined a cent, it will not be possible to impose a fine, since the sanction must be done in person. Furthermore, all data will be deleted within a week in respect of privacy. As usual in Italy, when a smart guy wants to get away with it, he invokes privacy.
John Salvi
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