Interview of Piero Sansonetti with Fausto Bertinotti

Bertinotti, what is happening in the Italian politics? How do you judge the battle that has shaken the country these days? What do you think of the solution found to the crises? What do you think of the attitude….

Bertinotti does not let me finish the question, he interrupts me and tells me that he is very happy to do an interview with Liberazione, and that he wants to talk about politics, about the future of the left, about the movements, about the ideas needed to fight the big battles of these years; but he does not intend to discuss the merits of the arguments concerning the parliamentary balances and the institutional and governmental choices. It would not be fair if the Chairman of the Camera, in such a delicate political moment, would engage in the parliamentary battle by releasing an interview to the newspaper of his party. Alright. I do not even try to insist that much. I change my question.

Bertinotti, at this stage the radical left is forced to go from utopia to realpolitik. Does it not risk, in a way, to change its own nature, to change its skin? Read more »