Fighting corruption is one way to
preserve the values of the Resistance movement that opposed the
Nazi occupation of Italy in World War II, House Speaker Laura
Boldrini told students on Friday.
"We must fight corruption and eradicate it - this too is a
way to keep the values of the Resistance alive and defend their
conquests," Boldrini said.
"Political parties must clean up their own houses before
the judiciary gets wind, because by the time the judiciary steps
in the damage has been done," she told students at a Lower House
conference titled Lessons in the Resistance.
"A corrupt politician always makes the headlines, but
unfortunately corruption...is a virus that has infected the
whole society," Boldrini went on.
"It is a virus that has infected the civil service and the
private sector. Having said that, a corrupt politician is guilty
twice over - because he of what he does, and because he betrays
citizens' trust".
Parliament, political parties, and unions must renew
themselves but must not be demolished because there can be no
democracy without them, she added.
Boldrini is the third-highest official in the nation, after
Senate Speaker Pietro Grasso and President Sergio Mattarella.
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