Piero Fassino Quotations

There are conditions to create a government and to govern, even if the country is divided in two.

We have never proposed a tax increase. This lie about tax hikes is a desperate attempt by Berlusconi to rake in some votes...

Yesterday Berlusconi belied a nervousness which showed that he is in difficulty. He can feel that his electoral defeat is probable.

Naturally, there remain all the reasons for concern and anxiety stemming from the first round, and the necessity of the European left to take stock of the fears that pushed so many citizens to turn to the right.

He made the tax cut promise in such a demagogic way.

What is emerging is that there is something rotten on the right.

We have already seen after two days, that this is how it will finish.

We call on the prime minister to go to parliament at once and take stock of the most severe crisis that Italy has ever had regarding its relations with Europe.

You have inserted a separatist mechanism that will lead to the further institutional fragmentation of the state,

Everything has to be done, and every initiative must be put into play to save these two young women,

Berlusconi is ... basically buying votes by promising tax cuts.

Berlusconi and the center-right should respond by resigning and open the way for immediate elections.

The Olympics are a great event and a great showcase for Turin. It makes no sense to protest against it.

Acknowledge your crisis, resign, ... and let's go to the polls.

Conditions are in place to form a government, even though the country is split in two.

This is just the appetizer. Italians will hand him the rest at the elections.

This is just the appetizer. Italians will hand him (Berlusconi) the rest at the elections,

In which democratic country does the government, on the eve of an election, rewrite the rules?

calls into question the unity of the country and national cohesion.

But today, Berlusconi owes an explanation to 8,000 mayors who want to know where money will come from for public services -- day care, the elderly, road works -- everything now financed by the property tax.

This is a clear violation of the established rules.

The centre-left will win and revive the fortunes of an Italy thrust to its knees by the complete failure of the 'miracle' announced by Berlusconi five years ago.