The XXXVIth Congress of the RP
Rome, 4/8 February 1993

The general motion passed by the second session of the 36th Congress of the Radical Party (531 votes for, 40 against, 13 abstained) establishes that if the minimum requirements to guarantee the existence and activity of the party (at least 30,000 members in Italy or equivalent human or financial resources) are not fulfilled by 28 February, the Radical Party will be closed. If the minimum requirement is fulfilled, the elected organs will assume their roles in mid-May, and in any case no later than the 15th of June 1993 (the Congress elects Emma Bonino as secretary with 456 votes, the Treasurer Paolo Vigevano with 454 votes and a General Council formed by 60 members).

GENERAL MOTION

The 36th Congress of the Radical Party held in Rome from 4 to 8 February 1993

Considering that, with the tragedies, the threats and the challenges facing us at the end of this century, the organized presence of the nonviolent, transnational party for a right to life and a life of rights, in other words the Radical Party, appears to be more and more necessary; considering the extensive and extremely important recognition that the Radical Party's political initiative has obtained, and is obtaining in ever-widening spheres;

acknowledging that the essential technical and political condition to guarantee the existence and activity of the Party is the enrolment of a minimum of at least 30,000 members in Italy, or the equivalent in human or financial resources;

considering that the number of members that have joined so far accounts for not even a tenth of the above figure,

DELIBERATES

that if by 28 February 1993, bearing in mind the amount of time necessary, the above required condition has not been met, all the required procedures should be taken to put the Party into liquidation.

For this reason, the Congress consequently, having approved the reports of the First Secretary and the Treasurer, and thanking the executive organs of the Party for having guarantied the continued life of the Party during these last four years, and in so doing having permitted the establishing of the first transnational and transparty political reality, deliberates as follows:

a) to adopt the draft of the Statute presented by the First Secretary - the ratification of which will be postponed to the next Congress;

b) to proceed with the provisional election of the Secretary and the Treasurer, as well as the 60 members of the General Council, according to the conditions set down in the Regulations of Congress for the election of the Federal Council.

IN THE EVENT THAT THE ABOVE ESSENTIAL CONDITION IS MET

- the elected organs will assume their functions in mid-May, and in any case no later than 15 June 1993, with the present organs remaining in office until the end of this period;

- on 15 June 1993, the Secretary will call the Assembly of the parliamentarians and the 60 members elected by congress to the vote at an extraordinary meeting, in order to proceed with the election of the President of the Party as well as of the other 40 members of the General Council which, having thus been constituted will proceed with the election of its own President;

- the Secretary will present to the General Council areas for political initiative, as agreed with the outgoing organs.

The Congress also deliberates that in the first instance

a) art. 2.4 (Area Congresses) and art 2.55 (the Co-ordinating Committee) will not be applied;

b) that the General Council may elect its own President;

c) that the next Congress will take place 18 (eighteen) months after the statutory organs have become functional.

IN THE EVENT THAT THE ESSENTIAL CONDITION INDICATED ABOVE IS NOT MET WITHIN THE SPECIFIED TIME,

The outgoing organs - the Secretary and the Treasurer, together with the President of the Federal Council and the President of the Party - will immediately put the Party into liquidation according to the procedures set down in the Italian Civil Code (art. 36, 37, 38).

LASTLY, IN ORDER THAT NO STONE MAY BE LEFT UNTURNED, THE CONGRESS

deliberates that an extraordinary committee should be set up immediately to assist the executive organs in order to reach the target of 30,000 new Italian members;

and appeals to everyone to work with the Radical Party, and in the Radical Party, to guarantee the survival of the hopes and motivations of a unique and unrepeatable political experience.