“And yet, on the other hand, what must be said, and what everyone knows, is that a good part of political financing is irregular or illegal. The parties, especially those that rely on large, medium or small secretariats, newspapers, propaganda, promotional and associative activities, and with them many and various operational political structures, have resorted and are resorting to the use of additional resources in an irregular or illegal way. If a large part of this matter must be considered purely criminal matter, then a large part of the system would be a criminal system. I do not believe that there is anyone in this Chamber, politically responsible for important organizations, who can stand up and pronounce an oath contrary to what I affirm: sooner or later the facts would take care of declaring it perjury.” No one stood up. But no one even had the courage to recognize that it was a political problem, to be solved politically. Everyone hoped that the bell would ring only for Craxi. And things went differently, we know how they went. Today it is still appropriate to remember that speech that brought together drama, realism, and the end of an era. The problems posed by those words remain current and unresolved.
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