I have already stated my rule of keeping focused more on policies than politics and I also said that I do not aim to become a politician.

However I think that I have to try to do my best in order to improve the quality of the State I am a citizen of. This is why today I signed this petition.

In a representative democracy it is not possible to make a law without the Parliament, but it is difficult that a corrupted political system will be able to reform itself without any pressure from outside. This is why even if the v-day initiative had a populist flavour it was anyway something worth to be endorsed.

The first step seems to generate some pressure, some demand from outside. Of course also lobbies or terrorists try to do that in order to influence politicians and gain directly or indirectly any power, but the difference is that a democratic pressure from the civil society is a non-violent and public demand. Public demonstrations are one way of creating such a kind of pressure, but politicians have already become insensitive to them.

Popular initiatives can be an other mean, let’s see if an effective one, but they need to be followed by some kind of support towards those groups of politicians who will be ready to back popular demands inside the Parliament.