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Marco Follini
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“I have adopted the framework of bipolarism and [democracy of] alternation. Obviously, this pattern calls for a different kind of centre-right. However, it requires all of us to work on this front, strengthening the profile of our alternative to a centre-left that risks not paying the price for its contradictions, simply because, instead of focusing on our own transformation, we seem to be engaged in a monotonous repetition of ourselves.”
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“This is not the centre-right of my dreams. And the Prime Minister is not De Gasperi. I have said these things, I have written them, and I have translated them into my party's politics as best I could and as I felt I should. I stand by it. At worst, I'll go home. But I won't go to the left.”
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“None of us, not even those closest to the dividing line, will prop up a shaky majority. The challenge is to prevent the country from faltering.”
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“I can assure you that the Prime Minister never said to me, 'Come with us.' There are two key reasons for this. The first is that Prodi does not spend his time courting opposition figures. And the second is that I am staying in the opposition. Since there is no misunderstanding about any of this, I would like (and I believe I am also entitled to) ensure that there are no misunderstandings for the readers of La Stampa.”
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“(Following Scilipoti's vote in favour of the Fourth Berlusconi Government) I don't know whether Scilipoti, by voting that way, is Judas. I doubt that, by voting that way earlier, he was Churchill.”
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“The PD is a great party. It probably has the best leadership team in the country. From Veltroni to D'Alema to Letta. Today, however, the party is held back by uncertainty about its strategy and its identity. The party needs to define a clearer profile for itself, and that profile can only be that of European socialism. It's a noble position, but it's not mine.”
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“I am resigning, but I am not giving up. My political commitment to the centre-right continues. I'm not giving up; I'm not walking out the door of the Margherita. And I don't support Prodi, as some newspapers have written.”
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“Once, at Palazzo Chigi, Berlusconi said to me, 'Marco, you hate me. I can tell by the way you look at me.” I replied, 'You're wrong. Personally, I like you, and as a businessman, I've always admired you. The problem is that I don't agree with any of your political views.”
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“Our country needs to regain the balance it has lost along the winding path of this rather neurotic alternation of power.”
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“Over the past few years, I have always worked, with my limited strength, towards the prospect of renewal, to get us out of the petrified forest that Italian politics is today, so that we do not lose the sense of civility in politics.”
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“Interviewer: So, will you vote to support the Prodi government? Follini:It is likely, if the Prime Minister's speech confirms these signals.”
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“I'm not acting as a crutch. I don't campaign on that side. I set out objectives that should be part of the shared common sense of all sides. My aim is to shield the government, and therefore politics, from pressure from the most extreme minorities.”
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“My aim is to play a part, if I can, in building a new centre-left, and to position this movement more closely to the centre.”
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“I have many flaws, but clinging on to power is not one of them.”
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“We have a lot in common with Casini. At times, time separates us. Sometimes, my rightness is recognised, albeit posthumously, after a few months or a few days. It's possible that in a few months, or in a few days, I'll run into Casini again; and the thought of it makes me feel relieved.”
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