Another defection in the ranks of the IDV. The last letter of resignation that arrived at the party secretariat was signed by Sandro Trento, now former head of the Economics and Finance department of Italia dei Valori. Graduated in Economics and Commerce at the University of Rome La Sapienza, Trento worked for 15 years in the Research Department of the Bank of Italy, was director of the Confindustria Study Center and is now a full professor at the University of Trento. In addition to renouncing his party role, the economist has also decided to hand over his membership card.
“I see that Monti is treated as if he were Berlusconi and I really can't bear this – writes Trento in the letter in which he explains his choice -. I was suggesting that we become a modern mass action party. If we had followed that path, which others in the party also share, today we would be the protagonists of the political game. In the last year, however, the road followed has been that of somewhat extremist and often populist protest”.
In the meantime, Italy "plunged into crisis" and "fortunately, in the face of the danger of catastrophe, Berlusconi fell and the Monti government was born". But the IDV, according to Trento, “was found completely unprepared for this appointment. The image we give every day is that of a party that doesn't know which way to go. We live for the day. We use a terminology against Monti and now also against the Constitutional Court and against the President of the Republic that is truly shocking”.
The decision to “increase one's political weight by exploiting the repressed anger in the country is, in my opinion, a failed strategy. The result is that we are now isolated from everyone. We have broken the axis with the Democratic Party", for this reason "we cannot present ourselves as a mature force, capable of governing the country".
Finally, the regrets: “It is with great pain that I note the fact that we have not been able to combine liberal and moderate ideas with protest positions. It's my fault too." The party's current position “is not the one decided at the National Congress. We settled on positions of old-fashioned radicalism, with a single electoral logic. I am no longer willing to witness the continuous oscillation between a virtual liberalism and a concrete populist extremism”.
