ABSTRACT: This is the text of the letter of resignation of Deputy Marco Pannella, sent yesterday to the President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, Nilde Iotti.

Madame President,

That tendencies, reflections, and institutional and social violence of an unequivocally Fascist character predominate everywhere to me is tragically clear.

If execution squads with their victims and assassins are lacking, or appear to be, it is only because the assassinations of the image, of truth, of tolerance of ideas, of laws themselves and basic morality and the Constitution, are committed continuously, completely, in a more thorough and more radical manner by the mass media (in particular, RAI-TV, the gangster-like and Fascist action squad-like comportment of which, is however no longer exclusive to RAI 1, but even more pronounced in the "Socialist" RAI 2 and in its "Presidential" management, but also the tendencies, converging on those of the TV, of the press, expression of the major industrial groups and Italian and multinational powers), with the denigration of Parliament, the tendency to lynch anyone disagreeing with the leader of the PSI (Italian Socialist Party) or its "protectors" or "allies" in the DC (Christian Democrat Party), which was amply illustrated by the vote on the "secret ballot" and recently by the silence of the Present of the S

enate, as regards the law on drugs.

The Monitoring Commission of RAI-TV is directly involving Parliament in a piratical and hypocritical undertaking of complicity in omission in this subversive context, betraying the Constitution, negating the law, the legality, and the legitimacy of political debate or opposition.

On this, no true debate in the Chamber exists, in concert with the political Party-system which is of a Fascist character and which is closing in upon and working against the ideals and strength of democratic legality.

For these reasons, I have offered my resignation as Deputy. What is happening as regards the Roman elections would no longer be tolerated in Eastern Europe, not even in the USSR, where Eltsin would not even be recognized as candidate, if he had participated in the Italian elections. I refuse to have any part of it.