Paola Zanca
"I chased them in all parts of Italy and the world. I called them on the phone to understand that they had intentions. I insisted. And each time I hear, 'We come, no problem'. And then you did not see anyone. " Antonio Boccia for two years did the abacus of the Prodi government. Secretary of the Senate, from 2006 to 2008 he spent his days to count and recount the votes that were in walking distance of the center-left majority risicatissima.
And not only are those numbers which had to deal. Between a crisis of conscience, quarrels and splits, the risk of courting the center sank like a knife through butter was a constant daily. "As long as there is one thing you try. But then if someone comes up and asks' What do you need? ', changes everything. " Here, that question, in the long months of agony of the Prodi government if they are felt to many. "And many do not feel well today. Sure, there are colleagues who do not go for a quiet life to tell the newspapers. " But for those who every day was to govern our colleagues who had succumbed to the courtship - and that according to one of those arrested in the investigation P3, Archie Martin, were convinced by fragrant sums of money - no words needed. The signals recognized them immediately. Boccia recalled that falling in love for the center-elected Senator Luigi Pallaro abroad, for example, needed no explanation. "From the beginning he said it was an 'independent' of the center. But he has always voted with us, until it felt to start talking about the so-called 'sale. He began to absent himself more and more frequent, assured me that he participated in the vote and even then did not come from America. Sometimes it was even in Italy and did not show up. I know that at least once in South America met Berlusconi. I do not think talking about politics. Of course, there is substantial evidence dell''acquisto ', but we were in a situation of instability that his behavior was not justifiable. Our insistence were such that that was not to vote was clearly indicative of the will leaving the majority. " And so it was not even that 24 January 2008, when Prodi said the confidence in the Senate, Pallaro was in the courtroom. Other times, that something had changed, you understood the games of cunning. "I had three diniani - Boccia recalled - Dini, Scalera and D'Amico. D'Amico has remained consistent with the center, the other two at some point they started with equivocal behavior. Abstained, knowing that the Senate abstention is a vote against. Every time I called them. They said "We are, there are no problems." Especially Scalera, played the part of mediator, but in the end he followed the position of Dini. Also behaves mischievously: arrived few minutes after the voting had begun. Their attitude was almost a collegiate: the distancing was in fact, but in essence it should not appear. Their votes, it could not rely. " Definitely no, no trust among the 161 that led Prodi to resign, there was also that of Lamberto Dini. Scalera abstained. Martino, in the interrogation, he also spoke of him: Scalera was approached by former councilor Campania Sica on behalf of Berlusconi. Dini and in 2008 received a payment from a businessman friend of the sudden the same Sica. We are the best known cases, those of Senator Sergio De Gregorio and Nino Randazzo. The first, who was elected IDV, he became President thanks to the votes of the Defence Committee of the Centre and established the Italians in the World movement. He ended up being investigated for corruption by the public prosecutor of Naples (which filed the case), for a payment of € 700 000 by Forza Italy. The second was given the indecent proposal during a lunch at Palazzo Grazioli. Then he wrote a letter to Berlusconi to say "no thanks" to his invitation to move in the other half of the Chamber. Boccia also recalls the "cases of conscience," goodbyes taste all political Turigliatto, Fisichella (influenced, says former Secretary of the classroom, "more than the church hierarchy that Berlusconi"), the Binetti, "one of the first not to vote confidence in the government. " It was not politically motivated, but at most "newspeak," said Boccia, the attitude of Senators Bordon and Manzione. "They were looking for a political reciprocate, but I can not say that dealt with the center: there were episodes such as to suggest that they fell into the net of sale." He does not believe the reasons of orthodoxy, Boccia, in the case of Ferdinando Rossi. "His case would call 'contract': each time you gave a vote was needed in return. He began to abstain, to take ambiguous positions. We had some doubts that the price was always higher just to get to the break. The suspicion was all: There was put to a vote amendments so pretentious that seemed to go looking for an excuse to leave. " When asked, Smith is not offended: "I had already said Bertinotti at a meeting of parliamentarians of the PRC, 'Beware that if they are bought Rossi'. I have been so many years in the Communist Parties: the best way to demolish the opponents say they are agents of the enemy. " Of course, the word responsibility, Boccia recalled at that time you could not even name. "Mussi and Salvi ten senators were taken away, then came the break was Angius. In a climate like this - remember Petanque - the stories of individuals to enhance ended: if I tried to talk to Manzione, the drones, the Dini, they'll say, 'What are you doing? You worry if I do a bit 'of rigamarole when you have whole groups going by yourself?'. The truth - Boccia concludes - is that they blame Ma-star and he's only been the last to leave. Of course, both he and Dini are finished in the center. It means that some speech if they were made ...".
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