SAN MARINO – “The cliques evolve, they change shape and protagonists, but the country cannot continue to pay the consequences”. This is the message launched by DOMANI – Motus Liberi after the first degree sentence on the Banca CIS case, pronounced on 5 November, with eight convictions and five acquittals for the various charges.
The movement returns to raise the question of the relationships between political power, economic interests and institutional responsibilities, inviting us to reflect on the lessons left by the banking crises of the past and on the dynamics that could arise again in the present.
TOMORROW – Motus Liberi recalls that its commitment to these issues dates back to the birth of the movement. In November 2019 he organized a public meeting dedicated to the banking system and, in November 2020, he intervened after the report of the Council Commission of Inquiry on Banca CIS and the banking crises, highlighting the critical issues in the relationships between politics, the banking system and control bodies.
“It was not and is not a battle against anyone. It is a battle against a method”, underlines the movement, which denounces the risk of a system in which particular interests prevail over general ones, personal and economic relationships condition institutional dynamics and supervisory bodies are unable to operate without pressure.
According to DOMANI – Motus Liberi, the so-called cliques can change interlocutors, tools and relationships, adapting to new contexts. It is not up to politics to identify in advance any new protagonists of these dynamics, but to the competent bodies to ascertain the facts. The objective, the movement claims, must be to prevent the re-creation of the conditions that allowed certain systems of influence to develop in the past.
The statement also mentions the cost of banking crises, which has fallen on citizens, public finances, the economic system and the international reputation of the Republic. The reference concerns not only Banca CIS, but also the events that are emerging with BSM.
The question posed by the movement is whether San Marino has really changed its way of doing politics after what happened. TOMORROW – Motus Liberi concludes by reiterating the intention to fight against the return of systems of power that place particular interests before the good of the Republic: “The lesson of the past cannot be forgotten. And above all it cannot be considered concluded”.
