Italian newspapers have not reported about, but in recent weeks around the world is something quite extraordinary happened (in the literal sense of the event "out of the ordinary"): the democratically elected representatives from all the Italians who living abroad have rallied and protested against the policy unit in the form of the Italian government. In fact
protest was attended by all members of the General Council for Italians Abroad and all the Presidents of Comites; Comites are the representative bodies of those local situations where is a number equal to or more than three thousand inhabitants, while the CGIE is a body intermediate level (between Comites and parliamentarians elected abroad), elected by the directors of Comites and associations.
During three joint meetings Comites CGIE and European countries, those non-European-speaking Anglo and Latin America, respectively, in Frankfurt, Vancouver and Buenos Aires, representatives of more than four million Italians living abroad have wanted to launch a voice cry for help (maybe the last) to the Italian government and all institutions.
Despite the conquest of the exercise of voting, which is enhanced by the presence of deputies and senators in Parliament residing abroad, the Italian communities around the world have in fact experienced some deterioration in recent years the level of full enjoyment of their social rights, and now see also questioned the full exercise of their right and duty to participate in democratic life through a system of representation that had built after years of long struggles and demands. We
a few examples, out of the rhetoric of politics and be more clear. What would happen if
in Italy, at the end of the natural duties of a municipality or a region, the Parliament decided that - perhaps awaiting approval of a new law that acts on these bodies - the elections for the renewal of these institutions would be delayed two or three years, keeping in place all the directors elected for a term of only five years?
That 's what this government is doing in these days, with the decisive support of the majority of the Italian parliament who did not hesitate in approving a decree postponing a further two years (dopi to postpone for one year from 2009 to 2010) elections and Comites CGIE.
And what if in Italy overnight, the government decided that half of poor people who are entitled to free medicines or social assistance will lose this right to leave, I repeat, the day following the reduction of the relevant appropriations ?
Again, this is what happened with the social-medical care for those Italians living abroad (mostly born in Italy) which lie at the misfortunes of a life full of sacrifices in the absence of an income insufficient to give themselves the minimum conditions for survival.
And what would happen if an elderly person in Italy without earnings-regular application pursuant to the provisions of our constitution, to receive a social pension to live with dignity the last years of his life and the government denied to pay it and attach the fact that the citizen in question had not lived for ten years consecutively in the same city?
And 'what happens to a couple of years to our elderly poor who, returning to Italy from a life of migration abroad and then often sacrifices, are denied this right because they have lived for ten consecutive years in the country.
And the list of the blatant injustices could continue, even more.
With a final and unfortunately well-known example: what would happen in Italy where the identity card or passport at the request of a public official to answer for his release that it will take six or eight years?
E ', I know many, what continues to happen at the Italian consulates in Brazil, the only ones in the world where you can not dispose of civilians in times of national processes.
Yes, the only country, as in neighboring Argentina to the Italian consular offices have been able to positively use the few human and financial resources of so-called operation "Task Force", a project, commissioned by and implemented by the Prodi government, which had as its ultimate goal the reset of this long line of Italians and shameful pending the approval del loro diritto di cittadinanza.
Contro tutto questo abbiamo manifestato in Europa, ma anche in Nordamerica e nel Sudamerica.
Abbiamo voluto dire così alla nostra patria lontana quanto è grande il rischio di una progressiva e forse radicale e definitiva secessione tra le due Italie; e questa volta non stiamo parlando dell’Italia del Nord e del Sud ma dell’Italia dello stivale e di quella, altrettanto grande, che vive fuori dalla penisola.
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