 Hello, this is Jens Velofakis with a message of support, solidarity and some information for our Italian members on this occasion, this great occasion of the meeting for the National Collective of DiEM25 Italia. Former friends, a month has gone by almost since the European Parliament election. It was a very difficult campaign. We did not run in Italy unfortunately. I think Italy is poorer for that. Europe is poorer for that. We know why we didn't run because of an arcane piece of legislation. We ran across Europe in many jurisdictions. It was a very, very, very difficult fight, a fight out of which the left collectively lost very badly across Europe. DiEM25 had a total budget of some like 70-80,000 euros, which is not even enough to run a modest campaign in a small municipality as you know. And yet we managed to gather about 1.5 million votes across Europe. We're not happy with the result. Let's face it, we should have elected an MEP, at least one in Denmark, in Portugal, certainly in France, in Greece, in Germany, me, I failed. We didn't elect anyone. But nevertheless, this is an excellent time for us to take stock of a campaign that was run on a shoestring, which led to 1.5 million votes. In Greece, we were just a whisker away. So were we in Denmark. Our comments in Denmark managed to get in parliament, in the national parliament. And here in Greece, I'm talking to you during the middle, in the midst of a vicious, very difficult campaign. It seems that MEP 25, DiEM25 in Greece, is going to make it in parliament. It seems that as if we're going to have 10, maybe more members of parliament. It's a start. We have a very long way to go. But the OHI, the July 2015 no vote, is going to find representation through DiEM25, a Europeanist representation, not a lexiteer representation in Greek parliament. Over the next few months, before the end of this year, all of us in Greece, in Italy, in Germany, across Europe, we must take stock. We must rekindle that which made DiEM25 such a significant force across Europe, not so much electorally, but at least intellectually, ideologically, and, very importantly, programmatically. Which now brings me to Italy. Italy, as we all know, not just you folks in Italy, we all know it. Across Europe, indeed, across the world, Italy is going to be the battleground for civilization, for the struggle against barbarism. Not just socialism versus barbarism. Civilization against barbarism, indeed. We have Matteo Salvini going from strength to strength on the basis of a combination of Euroscepticism and racism. He is going to go full on with a monetarist, readmany and Hegekian narrative on very low taxes for business. So he's going to be attacking the European Union from an ultra-right wing, monetarist, Hegekian perspective that combines the worst of neoliberalism with racism. Who is going to confront Salvini's malignancy? Is going to be the Italian left, but has it been left over, those relics? It can only be DiEM25. It cannot be the PD. It cannot be any of them. Now, we are not strong enough, but we have a sufficient foundation on which to build strength. And we have to build DiEM25 as DiEM25. Forget the Frankenstein coalitions with all the remnants of the left. They have proven absolutely impotent and absolutely unreliable as potential partners. DiEM25 Italia must build its own bases. That's my view at least. You have to decide on your own and whatever you decide, the rest of us DiEMs are going to go along with. But the Italian national collective, the Italian electoral wing must become the foundation in which DiEM25 Italia rebuilds, builds upon everything that you have achieved in the last year, two years, so that we can be the principal opponent of misanthropy in Italy. In this context, it is crucial that all of you step up in this forthcoming election for the national collective and our electoral wing in Italy. It's important that we have new blood, that many of the activists that have come through the movement of DiEM25 Italia now reach the level of maturity and penetrate the organization, the national collective, the electoral wing, board, whatever you call it. I would like to see some of you be candidates for the DiEM25, the broad umbrella DiEM25 coordinating collective, the CC as we call it. We want you to take hold of the livers of DiEM25 in Italy as well as more broadly and lead the fight across Europe and of course in Italy.