(From Water Forum Secretariat receive and publish )
".... this joint press release sent to all heads (already taken by repubblica.it ), in response to statements by Maroni. Officially, the dates have not yet been established because they need to pass in the Council of Ministers ....."
Press
The government is afraid of the Italian vote
Minister Maroni wants to vote for the referendum on June 12,
schools closed to avoid a quorum
Minister Maroni said today that the next Council of Ministers propose on June 12 as a day to perform the referendum.
As you know, this is the last date allowed by law (which states that the referendum take place between April 15 and June 15), otherwise we could also risk having to go to vote in August.
It 'clear that the choice is not random: June 12 schools are already chiuse e l’inizio della stagione estiva rappresenterà per chi può permetterselo un incentivo ad andarsene fuori città. Questo almeno nei desiderata del ministro e del governo di cui fa parte, che evidentemente teme che questa volta i referendum possano raggiungere il quorum e i sì vincere.
I timori del governo sono fondati - anche se non giustificano la decisione presa - come dimostra il 1.400.000 firme raccolte per i quesiti sulla ripubblicizzazione dell’acqua, un risultato mai ottenuto prima.
Per questo Maroni ha scelto la strada del boicottaggio, consapevole che la normale dialettica politica fra sostenitori del sì e del no lo vedrebbe perdente.
Meglio allora usare altri mezzi, just to make it difficult to free expression of the will of the people.
the minister should also be noted that it was on its proposal that local elections in 2009 were merged with the European Union. Then he was concerned that no public money is wasted unnecessarily (calculated a saving of € 400 million) with more than elections. Today, despite it being in the middle of the economic crisis, the concern is gone.
The organizing committee for the referendum ripubblicizzazione water and the anti-nuclear campaigners have long since launched a petition which has collected thousands of signatures to demand the unification of the dates of administrative and referendum. They requested a meeting to the minister to explain the reasons supporting the unification: economic reasons but also to guarantee greater participation.
The answer was that we learn from agencies: a comparison of the absolute closure to the arrogant indifference to the possibility that cities and citizens are put in the best position to exercise their right to vote.
Already in the past there were those who said "all at sea" and went badly. It will happen this time too.
Rome, March 3, 2011
C OMMITTEE Clerk 2 YES 'FOR THE COMMON GOOD WATER
COMMITTEE VOTE YES' TO STOP THE NUCLEAR
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