Before the article that follows, sull'Anagrafe of the Elect, I mean that this proposal was presented to the councilors of the Municipality and the Province of Pistoia in the months of February and March 2009 and to date was not taken into account despite promises and good intentions.
We are waiting and we hope that you gentlemen are the time and opportunity to discuss and decide whether the municipality wants to or does not want to take the registry office of the elected as an instrument of transparency for the voters and their elected representatives. Population of elected public
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network, to know the function of all elected Members, Senators, advisers, to know their choices and behaviors by including an element which has so far characterized only speak of the great Anglo-Saxon democracies.
is a request to the institutions to do what, the Italian Radicals have always done.
In fact, the radicals have always been set the challenge of making public the
institutional life as a basic element of a true democracy, "learn to act," as Einaudi.
Since 1976, the only ones to make public the parliamentary sessions were the Radicals just four deputies entered the House, for the first time in Italian history - the voices of the parliamentary right and left, on the waves of Radio Radical, born just a year earlier.
Article 64 of the Italian Constitution states that "the meetings are public," and from themselves, the radicals were the only party which, through Radical Radio, broadcast live or deferred, or otherwise, published fully online sites radicals, all meetings of Directors, the Congress, Assembly and any other event.
radicals suggest that the candidate elected to be placed at the center of the voter in order to make everyone understand and evaluate the elect, and not for themselves through their political parties, ensuring transparency and opportunities for participation, identifying as instrumental in achieving the Population public of the elect. One project involves the initial creation of a portal to support the transparency of the elect, giving at the same time, the citizen the right to know, also in the decision-making.
E 'this structural initiative really means all the elect shall become known.
A full recovery of the foundation of liberal democracy: the "learn to act."
The individual citizen must be guaranteed access, starting from the use of the Web, an extensive documentary evidence necessary to know the function of each service, as well as those engaged in public activity. This
is a fundamental reform to restore law and real democracy to the country and its institutions and is necessary to avoid falling into the trap of "certain politicians" that makes the whole lump.
At all levels of government must ensure that citizens can easily get to know not only the operations of various agencies, but also that data related to the work of elected representatives, in full and without filters, make available, easy to access and consultation documents and information. We must give everyone the chance to know the function of each director and councilor, municipal, provincial, mayors, and all those who exercise public activity.
How many times are present and absent. How and if they work. With such methods or devices. If you are absent, or how many times and how to vote in plenary or in committee. And how many "missions", fraudulently or not, are attributed.
Who and how many use the regulatory tools: questions, interpellation, motions, orders
day, taken word. And again, as their balance sheets, real estate, financial,
tax, corporate, their assignments paid ...
of each service is asked to be published: personal data, social security number as identification in order to have - in fact - a '' register elected and, for each, the elective office held in time, tax returns and financial interests for the year preceding the election, the years in which he served and for subsequent years; declaration by the elect of funding received, gifts, benefits or other similar; register of expenses of elected officials, including those for staff, telephone expenses, computer equipment, documents tabled with the process until its conclusion; framework presence in the work and votes cast on the measures adopted institution to which it belongs.
This last point is key, priority, because it allows citizens to check in as they elected the carries out its mandate specific initiatives and also how these correspond to the electoral program.
All these data should be accessible and in an open standard format, so they can be processed and cross.
allow publication of the discussions so that the citizen has the means to participate actively in political life and democratic country.
Many of these data are already "public", that is, as it is everything that is made public in Italy, often untraceable or illegal for ordinary citizens, disguised, hidden.
But today there is the possibility and therefore the need for these data are truly available to all. And this will last, the true means to recognize and reward the best, most capable and honest.
knowledge will need to record everything related to the nomination, public and wholly owned subsidiaries, in short, the entire public administration.
a concrete answer.
Today, thanks to the digital revolution and the Internet, it is technically possible to recover the direct relationship between voters and elected officials at all levels of government, that the means of mass communication have partially affected, often to the benefit of a policy or opaque facade .
Control is the very essence of democracy.
The possibility for citizens to exercise control over who governs them indeed is fulfilled, the sense of a democratic system.
It is in this direction is the radical proposal to establish a register of the elect: a tool of direct democracy that places the candidate under the microscope el'eletto voter, so that they may know him, follow him in his activities policy, monitor their choices and also their interests. All information needed to ensure that citizens have a vote consciously.
The initiative of the Registry of the chosen pass for the computerization of the institutional channels of communication, a must for finally open the way for the new frontier of e-democracy. The proposal
is primarily based on the principle of transparency, which is why we asked that each institution should be placed on the Internet: link to the corporate website, internal budget with attachments; institution's membership, attendance and voting behavior of elected representatives; pleadings in all joint institution, process and conclusion, all acts of the individual joints of the institution.
The moralization of politics also passes through reforms such as this.
"Be the change you wish to see in the world" Gandhi.
The culmination of everything, did not necessarily need legislative changes, this should be an awareness and deliberate action of a different type depending on the institutional level.
Mary Manti
