What to do besides elect the head of state
We need an ultra-technical government that bipartisanally prepares institutions and ad hoc commissions to manage the "two" emergencies (pandemic and PNRR), and allows a healing vote at the end of May, a useful choice to promptly address the "third emergency": the disintegration of institutions . The comment of Lodovico Festa
I do not know if in the end Mario Draghi will become president of the Republic, however a good dose of the chaos, which Giulio Sapelli and I had predicted in the book entitled “Draghi o il chaos “, is already widely manifesting itself today.
The problem is that a large part not only of the political world, but also of the most qualified opinion-makers, is unaware that the emergency we are experiencing is articulated on three themes, not just two (countering the epidemic and implementing the interventions provided for by the NRP ): in fact it is clear that we are facing a disintegration of institutions of impressive dimensions. And the progress of the Quirinale affair fully reveals this situation.
It is enough to read in the newspapers the anxieties of the Grillini parliamentarians because they could lose a year of allowance, the games of the Renzi and Conte who, without realistic political strategies, only think of accumulating some power, just look at the many large but also very small personalities aimed at putting in front of one's whole self, this is enough to understand where we are.
There are those who try to get away with the rhetoric: why disperse the good work done in 2020 by the Draghi government? Because that (in many ways excellent) work was guaranteed by the blank semester and by the emergency, not by a political agreement of the type normal in minimally functioning democracies.
In the Netherlands, in Germany, the great coalitions are not born from above but from agreements between the parties. Instead, this proceeded through the fault (politics, mind you, it is not a betrayal of the Constitution but rather a nefarious but admissible interpretation of it) of Giorgio Napolitano, whose example was then followed by Sergio Mattarella and whose result is was filling the parliament, with a 32% 5-star vote, with a mass of good people, but completely disbanded.
The moment is obviously serious and a way out must be sought, but this must take into account "all" emergencies. A bipartisan agreement must be preserved at all costs to fight against Covid 19 and to implement the planned investments, but we must also save what remains of the institutions and the possibility of having a rational national policy.
It is clear that today it is particularly useful "a lord protector" who preserves the Republic in this very difficult phase of transition and it is evident that the only personality who today has these characteristics is Mario Draghi (let's forget poor Mattarella and avoid surrogates who today would be absolutely ineffective).
But it is equally clear that the day after the election of the head of state we must think about how to get politics back into the field, which in fact will only be really possible with elections that also indicate the possible government and do not shatter in a vote. proportional that bogs everything down.
This is the passage on which we do not focus adequately and this is also a very serious limitation of Matteo Salvini's action.
In my opinion, there are two solutions: an ultra-technical government that bipartisanally prepares institutions and ad hoc commissions to manage the "two" emergencies, and allows a healing vote at the end of May, a particularly useful choice for promptly addressing the "third emergency".
Or a more political government (personally I would like the bizarre choice – studying the functional and constitutional pitfalls that allow it – of a Zaia / Emilian government that at least represents politicians firmly legitimized by the popular vote) that prepares a budget for July and a vote for October (or at the latest for January).
Otherwise the chaos of these days (with the lynching for example of poor Franco Frattini who proposed exactly the things Emmanuel Macron is doing today: a servant of Vladimir Putin too?) Will proceed devastating and the 5-star rating of 2018 that both Napolitano and (the less guilty) Mattarella did to provoke, it will seem like roses and flowers.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/cosa-fare-oltre-a-eleggere-il-capo-dello-stato/ on Wed, 26 Jan 2022 18:55:27 +0000.