Public Water Referendum: sign the request for a moratorium. Unipol Moratorium immediately eligible to vote in 2011
addition one million and four hundred thousand men and women of this country have signed the three referendum questions promoted by the Italian Forum of Water Movements and a great social gathering coalition in the Organizing Committee.
They place their signatures because they realize that the battle for public water is a battle of civilizations, for the protection and universal access to a common good. Concepts incompatible with any form of privatization and market delivery of a commodity essential to life.
With their signatures, those women and men have put into question all legislation currently in force regarding the management of water services, from the "Ronchi Decree" that wants to finalize the privatization.
With their signatures, those women and men have laid an essential question of democracy: the management of goods essential to life, the decision can not be delegated to anyone but should belong to everyone through the referendum.
why we ask political forces and institutional immediate approval, no later than 31.12.2010, a measure of grace over the payments under the "Ronchi Decree" and regulatory suppression of Territorial Authority.
The deadlines imposed ..............
art. 23 bis of Law No. 133/2008, as amended, (31 December 2010 in some situations and for other December 31, 2011), and those proposed by the Law 42/2010 on the suppression of the A. ATO, as organs of a decision by the municipalities on the models of expectations, likely to accelerate privatization process under way and should therefore be postponed until after the referendum.
At the same time, as in the case of early elections, the referendum date, currently scheduled for spring 2011, would be delayed by one year, ask that right now the political forces and institutions commit themselves to approve, in case you need A measure of derogation from the provisions of Law 352/1970, in order to carry out the referendum in 2011 .
As at the regional level we are asking all local authorities to move towards the ripubblicizzazione water service and its governance and participatory and stop all those activities that prepare the entry of private companies in the further increase in their share capital and all the maneuvers of incorporation of large corporate managers for small operations.
The extraordinary collection of signatures, the referendum and the widespread social awareness on water require compliance with a previously expressed will of the people, to be able to vote as soon as possible on an issue essential to people's lives.
The referendum for water are an invaluable opportunity to open a major debate across the country on an issue that is topical around the planet. From Bolivia to France, from Brazil to Belgium, all countries are ongoing protests and conflicts between those who fight for the public and participatory management of water and those who want to give it the financial capital of large corporations.
The same United Nations General Assembly, acknowledged this year - with a vote by the Italian government-that "drinking water is a fundamental right, essential for the full enjoyment of the right to life and of all rights' man "and he made the call for States and international organizations to provide all financial resources.
We urge the opening a lot of discussion in all corners of the country, with very serious and documented and a comparison without lies and without propaganda.
would be a great opportunity for collective growth and democracy.
And we all know what is needed.