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Puglia

Giuseppe Alberto Falci

After weeks of internal opposition to the center, was completed "telenevola" Puglia. Nichi Vendola won with over 70% of the vote over his rival Francesco Boccia in the challenge to win the nomination for President of the Region. Approximately 192,000 people voted for the primary center in Puglia. The figure is the final published by the Pd Puglia. Those who voted in Puglia in the primaries of the Democratic Party last October 25 when Pierluigi Bersani was chosen as secretary of the party were about 170,000. Instead, they were 79,296 participants in the primaries of 2005 when for the first time Nichi Vendola had the better of Frank Boccia in choosing the presidential candidate of the center for the region Puglia.

What has happened in recent months in Puglia? Let's take a brief history of the facts. In August the reappointment of Vendola was good and reliable. During the feast of the Tarantella, Massimo D'Alema was clear: "Nichi is our candidate." Then, the meetings of late summer, between Casini and D'Alema, began to leak something. At that point, the application of Vendola was hanging on the outcome of the primaries in October. Evins as the motion is Bersani's victory would mean the research alliance with the UDC, the formation of a new "Union." Bersani won. He began to talk of alliances ahead of the Regional March. Casini was immediately clear: "Either with us or with Vendola. ED'Alema proposed Michele Emiliano, who was elected mayor of Bari in June with the support of the UDC. Emily immediately poses a problem: he would not resign as mayor of Bari Therefore, the Region asked a sneaky ad personam to resolve the node resignation. The Region and the local Democratic Party rejected the sender's request. But at the same time Vendola not let go, aware of its strength and el consent. It came to a compromise between Pd and Vendola: do the primaries. As soon as you said the word "primary", Michele Emiliano retired the application and returned to play the position of mayor. The national leaders of the Democratic Party gave an exploratory mandate to Francesco Boccia to find a broad coalition around his candidacy. Boccia UDC so pleased that you went ahead on this line. But Vendola never thought to remove the noise and leave room for Boccia. So, between primary and Boccia Vendola, just like 5 years ago when Vendola won by a margin of 1600 votes. This is the chronicle.

Now what will the Democratic Party? There are two possible scenarios. First scenario: three-way race. What do you mean? The Democratic Party will run with Vendola, the UDC will support Poli Bortone, the PDL and Rocco Palese (man Raffaele Lease). According scenario: two-horse race. Vendola will support the Democratic Party and for the happiness of the PDL, the UDC's candidacy avallerà Palese. The first scenario is the most likely and the most favorable to the Democratic Party. Why? The report says that the Poli Bortone, a former mayor of Lecce and militant of Alleanza Nazionale, was rejected by the national and local leaders of the PDL for personal reasons per se. Poli Bortone by the candidacy of the Democratic Party would benefit only because his electorate is the same as the PDL. Hence, if the first scenario Vendola's victory would be reasonable. Second scenario is the same five years, on the one hand we Vendola the other, instead of Fitto, Rocco Palese. I would say: what a mess.

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The PD and Apulia: how to get lost in a glass of water. Tap water. Triumph of Love

Simon Lord

For many of the recent behavior of Massimo D'Alema, recently rejected the appointment of European Foreign Minister (and the next Tuesday, new chairman of the

Parliamentary Security of the Republic, COPAS), and Nichi Vendola, former governor of Puglia and spokesman of the Left Ecology Freedom, looks like yet another unjustified political hara-kiri, that makes the art of disagreement the real Achilles' heel of PD. Yet, on closer inspection, the matter may not be as irrelevant. Although D'Alema

belies the suggestion "mess" that would lead to an alliance Puglia PD-UDC in the name of Francesco Boccia, there are many signs that lead to considerations in the opposite direction. In short, to quote Andreotti, "to think evil is a sin, but we often guesses."

It so happens that in fact the father of Pier Ferdinando Casini is the entrepreneur Gaetano Caltagirone, the tenth richest man in Italy, which owns 7.5% ACEA SpA (Azienda Comunale Energia e Ambiente), which has already has long focused his eyes on the aqueduct Puglia by the actions of its CEO, Marco Staderini, former Lottomatica Board of Directors and former RAI, also linked by close friendship with Casini. To reinforce the chain of relationships are Péruzy Andrea, director of ACEA on behalf of shareholders and secretary general of the French Suez dalemiana Italianieuropei Foundation. These ties are reflected in glove in the choice of object to Vendola economist Francesco Boccia (ed Bocconi MBA), already defeated by Vendola in 2005 to just over 1200 votes.

In an interview with a journalist from La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno "Boccia said fact that" If the water (was) the public, the Region (...) should give it free to all and, instead, in Puglia you pay higher fares. For this I am for the nationalization of companies holding the assets of the major utilities, but no management: demand that the families of the San Paolo di Bari (ed class neighborhood with high unemployment and petty crime) wealthy do not pay anything and as Vendola me and pay more. And to do so, you must open the doors of the competition between private management, while preserving the majority publicly owned ".

Vendola, for its part, has always claimed the need to maintain the water service in the hands of the public : "We will not allow an expropriation of property and that 'a source of pride, a pride. The Apulian Aqueduct and 'a great public good, the water that' citizens and 'a universal right. We will get across, we will do with all our strength against each design to give to some French or American multinational public goods such as Puglia. Vendola Against the will of the Ronchi Decree, however, is part of last November, which establishes the expectations of the management of water services to the private sector by 2011.

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Although the intentions expressed by Boccia are more than commendable, several studies on the transition from public management to private management of Water Utilities have produced little results rewarding. The most striking are Ghana, where the PPP (Public Private Partnership ) founded by the government and some corporations have doubled the cost of water, until you get to be a tenth of the average daily gain, even in Cochabamba, Bolivia After the advent of the consortium Aguas del Tunari (including U.S. Bechtel and Italy's Edison ) prices increased by 20% -30% to be a quarter of monthly income. The cities of Cancun, Saltillo, and Aguas Calientes in Mexico have a different history in which the constant is an indiscriminate increase in prices (from 32% -68% or more) and even the bankruptcy risk of firms (such as France's Vivendi , which in Aguas Calientes at risk of bankruptcy in 1994, only to renegotiate government contract with a thirty year even more profitable).

Approaching a bit ', we find the two cases documented by Report (which I recommend everyone to see: http://bit.ly/8NSf6G ) Arezzo (with the French multinational Suez ), where prices have doubled for the first time with the advent of private service and a second due to the fraudulent 1:1 exchange with the euro, or Aprilia SpA Acqualatina (which includes just the ACEA), which documented increases from 50% to 3300% (33 times as much!), with the birth of a group of 5000 and more citizens who refuse to pay bills risk of being exposed to the physically close the taps.

short, caution is needed when it approaches the discourse of water privatization: it is clear that since this is a market that appears to be a natural monopoly (due to the presence of high entry costs and huge economies of scale and purpose), the transition from political price to monopoly price inevitably leads to an increase in the price level, and though it can be opposed by a regulatory efficiency, are not excludable side effects. This is demonstrated by the case of AQP , the SpA which operates the Aqueduct own Pugliese, who has refused to invest in its infrastructure after it was stopped trying to touch up upwards of 10% of its prices. It would also increase the business risk as it tells the news that has always AQP risked losing € 250 million in bonds Ford, Chrysler and General Motors in the warm months of the crisis.

is true, the effects were mixed, and explains how a study commissioned in 2007 by the rather optimistic The nter-American Development Bank and carried out on Colombian territory, the privatization of the port to secure a price increase only for the last quintile (ie 20% of the population ordered by income, ie the poorest), while the other is to anticipate the result. And there seems to glimpse a philosophy attributed to joke played masterfully by Ettore Petrolini: "You have to take the money where it is: at the poor. They have little but are so many ".