Pier Luigi Bersani, building the party. Prepare the alternative 
"I turned to you as it is aimed at a broad level management and so is aware of the importance and difficulty of our work is the great strength that we can express. All of us, together, we will trust in the project, tenacity and strength in pursuing it, and especially before the new challenge we will renew the ideals that led us from there to obtaining political power and generosity. Because in the end the substance is right here. A young party asks us to be young at heart. A new party. " So he concluded his speech by Pier Luigi Bersani during the 2009 Assembly proclaimed that the secretary of the Democratic Party.
A speech lasted just over an hour that started thanks to President Giorgio Napolitano, "to the personality, strength and balance with which it is exercising its role of guarantee" to Romano Prodi because "we feel it here with us in the deep roots of our great adventure "," Dario Franceschini who preceded me in this role and it is compared fairly with me and Ignazio Marino on behalf of the best prospects Party. "
Four proposals for institutional reform. "We raise our own idea of \u200b\u200breform. An idea of \u200b\u200breform that does not rely on the so-called dialogue, sick and ambiguous word, but a comparison that is transparent in their seats in Parliament.
We propose to start with four points: Overcoming
perfect bicameralism, Federal Senate, reducing the number of parliamentary strengthening reciprocal functions of Government and Parliament;
implementation of Art. 49 of the Constitution and consistent with a modern law on political parties;
new electoral law that allows citizens to choose their MPs through a comparison with the political forces starting with the opposition without excluding a popular law;
New rules on the costs of setting policy parameters that put us firmly and clearly in the middle of the main European countries compared;
These are our priorities on the institutional front and constitutional. "
economic crisis. Bersani wanted to focus on the spots of government, far from reality, announced that the crisis is behind us now. "As in the shell game - said Bersani - the place and time to discuss the real problems are always others. The gap is even covered by digressions on which lies the paradoxical conformity. We talked for a few days of steady job while tens of thousands of temporary workers the place were finding it hard at home! All this raises a wall between dangerous social and institutional reality and politics. We discover that without political discourse and parliamentary no social dialectics, there is the possibility of a whole hierarchy of problems really recognized by the people. We speak the language of truth, therefore, with this crisis. The crisis is not psychological, not a passing cloud, we have not behind them. Other than statements that the crisis is over and we have exceeded the GDP of England. But as the economic boom? ".
The autonomy system." A powerful tool to tackle the crisis is the system of autonomy " Bersani so during his opening speech of the Assembly of the Democratic Party. "The moment may be stronger than his involvement both on the investment, both in the social (from the response to the new poverty and acute issues such as immigration) we are witnessing a real betrayal of Commons do not know how to do or how to move the budgets nor the resources they have. I therefore propose as a first initiative to mobilize the party an assembly of a thousand Administrators PD open to directors of each orientation to denounce talk of federalism and state what the facts. Do not think, starting with the League, to be able to tell any story with us who are silent. "
Welfare." We want to be the modernization of the Welfare Party, capable of supervising a true culture of government goods that do not intend to entrust to the market and for which we expect a universalistic approach: health, education, security. Our assessment is this. In these systems, we see mainly to a reduction and deterioration of the offer, made violent linear cuts and the establishment of ideological hype, the apron, the patrols, and a lazy approach to the issues of Public Administration in the key of reorganization but in a recall order. The results we see them
impoverishment of the organization vocational education and training that you download on students, families, teachers and the extreme hardship of employment security operators. Decrees and votes of confidence in all these matters have not resulted in solutions, led to problems. We ask that you can finally have a discussion on the merits, for example starting from the new rules the universe, in which we recognize some of our suggestions and we are therefore interested in discussing, with the only constraint to reconsider the cuts that have indiscriminately killed on University and Research ".
Italy its role in Europe." Being in Europe is in ourselves short of best European experiences without overtaking farcene as is largely happening, and in affirming our country as a key driver of integration, a role that with this right-wing government there is totally out of hand and that we must return.
On December 1, will enter into force the Treaty of Lisbon. Things change. We are pleased and proud that we are discussing, even in an uncertain and complex path, the application of high responsibility in a role of a personality that is Italian by Massimo D'Alema. It 's a new important that this bid is not revealed in the classic form of intergovernmental policy but as an indication of the progressive forces in Europe and that this proposal had an open appreciation by almost all Italian political forces.
We want to address the news coming from the new treaty in the wake of the indication of President Giorgio Napolitano, who said, "If you are not free from the shackles of intergovernmental Europe there is no future for the integration and if ' integration stagnates or regresses there is no future for Europe (and for ourselves in the world). " I think you can not say better. "
Prepare an alternative." We must build the party that we promised the citizens that are watching us, the activists who support us, the millions of people who have asked to go forward and to have confidence in our secure large project. We therefore still points to the bottom. No nostalgia dive imprison or hold us back and we need to hear instead the responsibility of the new to build. We will be a party that in the bipolar system, will address the whole area of \u200b\u200bthe center, without hyphens or distinction of roles and no claim to exclusivity and the legitimate ambition to grow and make us stronger. "
What kind of party. "I reiterate here what I have always said in our long congressional campaign. I think of a party where you need all in all to work together to promote a new ruling class. For this I put in place executive members of a new generation has already been tried around them and create the active presence of political change that could protect by exploiting the vast system of relationships that we can mobilize. All this with a look in the plural and never biased allocation of roles and responsibilities. There is one further point I want to indicate today for our discussion. If aspects of comparison and competitive selection in which there are widely practiced in recent years (and that will be preserved with some necessary adjustments) will not be put in balance with their cohesive and centripetal mechanisms for each association, we risk phenomena of anarchism and feudalization. I think that the Commission already appointed by the Convention for the revision of the Statute should deal with this, how best to balance, for example, the broad dialectic, the absolute freedom of expression, the value of pluralism with the need to preserve the authority of and univocity positions of the party.
When it comes to this, our thoughts turn immediately to the ethical issues of the border. But the problem is not that. I'm talking about that instead of a physiology extensively the life of the party and most likely impacts in different places of the country with issues relating to the route of a road or to an incinerator or an appointment rather than border problems. "
The question morale. "It 's also work to a Committee appointed by the Convention to improve the Code of Ethics of the Democratic Party. I want here to emphasize the centrality of the issue. For the goals we have, we can not do without the dignity and good name of politics and 'public administration. When they fog up, the right will gain and we pay the price. We must therefore ask ourselves the question of a general strengthening of civic power and ethics, starting with ourselves. It' s a question that can not be simplified by standardizing , as is often done, on the judgments. That parameter, which certainly has a great importance, however, be too much or too little, does not free us from our responsibilities.
A Party is not a moral authority but must feel yet somehow guarantor of that dignity in the exercise of public functions that the Constitution requires. A dignity that can not include private behavior consistent with the credibility and the respect he demands a public commitment. We must ask ourselves why despite the best intentions stated in our founding documents, in these two years could not be sanctioned in various parts of the country's behavior is not consistent with the principles we have enunciated. I therefore request that the Ethics Commission put forward proposals not only of principle but to understand these tools work effectively to decouple the Party and his good name by deflections of individuals. "
