Speech to the Sicilians, by Mario Monti. Learn Sicilian with super Mario.
Channel: petermonful
Date: 02/02/2012

After Berlusconi's resignation as Italy's prime minister (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cL8P-_ZgiQ&feature=related), it's now the turn of Mario Monti to address the Sicilians in a speech in Sicilian language (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilian_language).

Although Monti's austerity reforms are very hard, Italians have accepted them and, in general, stay behind their PM recognizing that there is no other way to address the European sovereign debt crisis. Italians are paying the price of the irresponsible previous policymakers (from left, center, and right), which all promised heaven to win elections and essentially financed their plans (and compensations) via debt (like a Madoff-Ponzi scheme). Now they prefer to hear the truth even if it is sad.

Given their southern temperament, Sicilians are, however, still protesting via the Pitchforks Movement  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Sicilian_protests). This movement criticizes Sicilian deputies for their high compensation, one of the highest in the world, which they perceive without the need of doing any real work, as members of one of the oldest Parliaments in the world (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilian_Regional_Assembly).

Acknowledgments: Davidekyo (http://davidekyo.oneminutesite.it/) for his exceptional productions and sense of humor, and for spreading the Sicilian culture around the world.

Discorso di Mario Monti in Siciliano.