Ignazio Marino finds his ‘Martians’: “Where were we?” And he says: “In Italy parliamentarians no longer count for anything”

The former mayor of Rome Ignazio Marino meets his supporters in view of the European elections: "Italian politics is different from European politics, our Parliament practically only approves government decrees that come from Palazzo Chigi"

ROME – “Where were we?“. This is how Ignazio Marino, candidate for the European elections with Avs, makes his debut in a room full of supporters in Testaccio, at the Citta dell’Altra Economia. The initiative is organized by the ‘Martians for Marino‘.
The former mayor recounts the period of his deposition by the councilors of the municipality of Rome, before a notary, caused a period of “suffering because I thought that everything that had happened was not right for the city and then also on a personal level.Evidently it is not nice to suffer receiving so many insults. But then I was certainly lucky, because I I was welcomed by my university in the United States. In recent years I have managed to do many things that I wanted, always thinking of something new, for example I managed to organize a double degree course in medicine and surgery. where students study three years in Rome and three years in Philadelphia and next year the first group will graduate and think that for the first time in the history of our two continents, that a young doctor will be able to work in Berlin, in Rome , in Miami, in Seatol, in New York and this is really something important for me”.

For Marino “it is important that all of us commit ourselves in some way to helping the best young people who will then become the ruling class of our country and of other countries or will work in other continents. One of the things what surprised me upon returning to Italy is that I saw the difference in politics in the Italian Parliament compared, for example, to that of the European Parliament Here our parliamentarians no longer actually count for anything, because our Parliament practically only approves government decrees, laws that come from Palazzo Chigi. It means that the task of parliamentarians is removed. Therefore the executive holds the legislative power“.

“Do we want to talk about Orban? I remember that thanks to a French Green MEP, Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield, she prepared a very well structured motion of 30-35 pages, explaining everything that was being done against citizens’ rights, against the rights of the individual and also at the level of corruption and information in Hungary. Well it was approved thanks to the votes of the People’s Party, the Socialists and the Greens, and therefore Forza Italia, Forza Italia united with the People’s Party, also voted for the sanctions. ‘Hungary. It would never have happened in Italy. So there is a possibility of addressing the issues in a different way only with the idea of winning by trying to occupy all possible positions but also being available to build a Europe. Better Italy, precisely through dialogue, through a discussion that is civil and based on ideas”, he continues.

Finally, Marino concludes: “Just as in the past I worked to have judicial psychiatric hospitals closed as President of the Health Inquiry Commission, I assure you that today in the so-called Extraordinary Reception Centres, the conditions of migrant people they are worse than those of the so-called criminal asylums. As an MEP I will make an effort to go and see how the people who receive reception in Italy are treated and that could become the point, the lever on which to re-discuss the whole issue and also the Dublin agreements in so that the entire continent assumes its responsibility”.