Wonderful article by Gian Antonio Stella courier on January 15, 2009
(http://www.corriere.it/politica/09_gennaio_15/gian_antonio_stella_battaglia_anti_assenteisti_024dfa3c-e2d5-11dd-abc2-00144f02aabc.shtml )
the vote "antiassenteista" (that would be better to write "absent" because he voted against PDL) of the PDL.
a psychiatrist I would say that we are faced with an attitude "dissociated" but I prefer to use a term more understandable to most people .. Paracha ism.
I wonder what he thinks "the antifannullone" Mr Brunetta Italian?
[Pd Euro MPs The compact has given its support to the anti-document
Battle absentee vote in Strasbourg against the PDL.
Skip to the resolution of radically Marco Cappato: The activities of politicians and published on the Web
'absenteeism is enough! " thunders right for months in the wake of the Minister Renato Brunetta. Right: beyond certain forcing, is a battle that had to be made. Yesterday morning, however, in Strasbourg, the PDL has lost the opportunity to give a sign of consistency. It has been deployed en masse against a resolution, adopted by an overwhelming majority, which commits the European Parliament to put the online presence of MEPs to unmask absentee.
For years on the listlessness with which our members participate in the work of the Strasbourg ignite controversy sudden flare-ups. All the more dazzling by the contrast between this listlessness and spectacular paychecks they receive. Suffice it to read the table of compensation published in The basic cost of democracy by Cesare Salvi and Massimo Villone, a Polish MEP gets € 28,056, a 39,463 English, 61,704 a Swede, a Frenchman 63,093, a 82,380 British, 84,108 a German, an Italian 149,215. Fifteen times more of a Hungarian, three times more than a Portuguese, an Austrian and a half times, runner-up. It is not enough on basic pay plus the benefits and allowances for general expenses, subsistence, travel and for those racks, bringing the total in the case of the Italians, to a figure between 30,000 and 35,000 €. A lot of money.
The trouble is that our MEPs are not only the highest paid. They are also, traditionally, the most absentee from across the continent. The survey points out the European Championship in '93, where it was said that throughout the year preceding the pidiessino Achille Occhetto had not even participated in a session, the dc Antonio Jodice 3, the PSDI Antonio Cariglia to 4, the rifondarola Dacia Valent to 7 and so on ... The report reaffirms the Journal in 1997 (eye ironic "in the footsteps of our MEPs) or L'Espresso, 2001:" On 87 Italian MEPs, 26 participated in less than one hundred and one half of the plenary sessions, 15 have never spoke in class, 27 participated in less than 20% of the sessions of his committee, 13 have never submitted a ... '.
In 2004 the University of Duisburg, Germany took the trouble to prepare a comprehensive study on the legislature that would close: the voting sessions of the Italian presence was 56.2%, compared with 80, 9 of the Greek ol'82 , 5% of the Germans. A survey of ACLI data gave slightly different but no less disastrous to the top by admissions were the Finnish parliamentarians (89.5%), Belgium (89.3%), Dutch (88.7%) and last, as always, were our own, with 68.6% under the penultimate thirteen points, which were the French with 79.5%.
And now? Boh ... Scarred by the data that shamed the elected assembly, the custodians of information have become increasingly stingy with information. So much so that when the radical MEP Marco Cappato, in October, officially asked to see the tables of admissions to shed light on the reality after endless arguments (like the one he had seen Renato Brunetta, who is accused of an Internet site that it was he also a little 'brat in Strasbourg, to fire and flame, explaining that you have participated in recent years to 66.9% of sessions) the Secretary-General Harald Rømer answered spades: the data could be required of her. Fine: "There is no consolidated document that includes the total number of admissions per member to the various official meetings" and the regulation "does not in any way require the institutions to create documents to respond to a request. " One Response
bureaucratically perfect, but politically reticent. Received which the lawmaker, who believes that democracies "based on the rule of law are bound by the principle of publicity ', presented a resolution to engage the European parliament to complete clarity. That is the central point 5. That urges people to "introduce, before the European elections of 2009, a special action plan to ensure on its website, for example in the framework of the e-Parliament, greater and easier availability of information." The objectives targeted are mainly two. First 'activities, participation and the MEPs in Parliament's work in absolute terms and relative percentages, making such data available and accessible to citizens also through search criteria. Second: 'allowances and expenses of Members, in accordance with the position taken by the Ombudsman, "that the European Ombudsman,' and all statements of financial interests for all Members of Parliament, and such information is made available in all languages EU official. "
Well the resolution is passed. With an overwhelming majority: 355 votes in favor, 195 against, 18 abstentions. Hurrah. But it is the reading lists of who voted this or that Member to be particularly instructive. The center-left Italian, mindful of the wood in the elections of April where he left that the issue of cost-cutting policy was challenged by the right, was in fact compact: from daisy to former communist maverick Gianni Rivera. All in favor and none against. The right, however, it was split. And if the League Erminio "Obelix" Boso and Mario Borghezio voted in favor of transparency along with the "blacks" Roberto Fiore and Luca Romagnoli, the "senior" Carlo Fatuzzo, CL Mario Mauro and Jas Gawronski, representatives of the PDL were heavily entrenched in the no. Both forzisti Berlusconi (the former mayor of Milan, Gabriele Albertini, Guido Podesta to Elizabeth Gardini, by Lia Sartori until Gargani Beppe) and the nationalist allies Roberta Angelilli, Dominic Basile, Sergio Berlato, Antonio Mussa, Nello Musumeci, Salvatore Tatarella. You can bet that today they will say in unison that no, their vote against the resolution for maximum clarity was not against full transparency and in favor of top-secret on absentee and had some very serious reasons and that the compact was left only for reasons equipment and so on and so on. But the point remains: that message gets to the Italians, after months of furious invectives against the absenteeism of others? Gian Antonio Stella
January 15, 2009]
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