Democracy at risk due to indifference - De Luca - Politics. "This is a country where freedom has a price.
Without free men and women, democracy does not survive," he told Salerno students. He also stressed the need to "ensure that the South is not betrayed by the counter Risorgimento that is taking place in our country", referring to governmentregional autonomy plans accused of further penalizing the already poorer south. "There are many ways to empty democracy. Democracy can also die from exhaustion," he said.