The only fact that I decided to post the quote below inside my blog will certainly look strange to anyone not familiar with my country. Why should I need to remind such a concept? Shouldn’t it already represent a well established and unbreakable principle, the foundation of every aspect of the political life of a civilized country? My answer is in the title, “politics of the past”, when morality and political dignity still seemed to inspire the ideologies of the political class ..

“[...] the plea I make to young people is to try to be honest, politics must be conducted in an honest manner. [...] if there’s any politician who takes advantage of politics to do his dirty interests, it must be denounced without fear.” – Sandro Pertini

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