Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Arturo Parisi Warns Italy of American Spaghetti-Democracy

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Arturo Parisi warns Italian politics Not to  remain prisoners of the caricature of the American at the risk of transforming our democracy into a spaghetti-democracy".  We can neither adopt the American system as our model if we copy only the propagandist and worst aspects of that system.

Arturo Parisi (born 13 September 1940) is an Italian politician, member of the Democratic Party (PD). He was the Minister of Defence in the cabinet of Prime Minister Romano Prodi.Parisi was born at San Mango Piemonte, Salerno, Campania. A well-known strong supporter of Romano Prodi and the Olive Tree, Parisi has been a high-rank member of the Daisy Party until it became part of the PD.

PD: PARISI, PRIMARIES? DON'T LET'S END UP AMERICAN IN ROME

(AGI)  Rome,

 September 23, 2008

If those who I hear described as Italy's "young democrats" do not translate the lesson of democracy into Italian which all Italians witnessed live on TV our destiny is to remain prisoners of the caricature of the American in Rome played definitively by the unforgettable Alberto Sordi, at the risk of transforming our democracy into a spaghetti-democracy".

Arturo Parisi became ironic reflecting on the young members of the PD. Parisi said he was "sure that all the young democrats will recognise and share the battle of Giulia Innocenzi for the primaries the election of secretary of the young democrats to be truly democratic". But Prodi's representative warned that "Although recognising the usefulness of the recently finished "summer schools" nobody can forget that the only was to understand democracy is to practice it.

It's not enough to say primaries. We can neither adopt the American system as our model if we copy only the propagandist and worst aspects of that system. Let's benefit from the debate started by the so-called youth primaries to say yes again to the primaries as a transparent and direct choise, as long as they are true primaries. Let's say no to primaries thought up to cover decisions already taken elsewhere by other people, no to primaries thought up as collective rituals to be celebrated and then forgotten.?

 

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