For those who care about freedom, the neo-centrist pro-Dragons cauldron is not an option
It is said that the arrival of Mario Draghi to the government of the country has provoked and is largely still causing various fibrillations within the various political forces and parliamentary groups. This is quite true and it is sufficient to pay attention to the stomach ache that first of all afflicts the Lega, Forza Italia and the 5 Star Movement. But, in addition to the more or less hidden discontent, there are those who foreshadow and hope for political operations that should see the light in the immediate future and that certainly deserve an objective and non-partisan reflection.
The one who, with his own forecasts or desires, caused the most controversy was inevitably the Minister of Economic Development and Federal Deputy Secretary of the Lega Giancarlo Giorgetti. For Matteo Salvini's deputy, Prime Minister Mario Draghi should take the place of Sergio Mattarella at the Quirinale, but at the same time remaining under the banner of a sort of "de facto semi-presidentialism", holder of the political orientation, therefore of the government of the country. Carroccio's number two has always been described as a superfine mind, but the latest outing feels more like a slip. Beyond the intention, however evident, of somehow tripping Salvini, Giorgetti ventured into a hypothesis of clear forcing of the Constitution and the institutional arrangements of the parliamentary Republic. If a similar suggestion had been advanced years ago in favor, just to give a few examples, of Berlusconi at the height of his splendor, or of Matteo Salvini, at least half of Italy would have taken to the streets to scream at the coup, but in front of Mario Draghi mainstream commentators and aficionados of the most beautiful constitution in the world do not flinch.
Mind you, talking about presidentialism or even just about semi-presidentialism is equivalent to playing beautiful music for all those who consider themselves to be center-right, or close to the current coalition parties, but the renewal of the certainly obsolete Italian parliamentary democracy must pass through a reform process and not a fait accompli without any legitimacy. Meanwhile, what becomes "de facto" and does not represent the result of a real reform, either has a short life or does not end in the best way. Let's think of the so-called Second Republic, its bipolar balance, especially the direct de facto election of the premier, in the days of Berlusconi and Prodi, and let's not forget the unhappy end of that long season: center-right and center-left exhausted and frayed, the appearance at Palazzo Chigi by Mario Monti, the exploit of the dilettanti amateurs bred by Beppe Grillo.
Then, is it really appropriate to upset the institutions just to raise a figure already too much praised like that of Prime Minister Draghi on a pedestal? Many would like, not only Giorgetti, together with the usual and well-known journalists always ready to kneel to the powerful on duty, to transform the former governor of the ECB almost into a sort of eternal president, like Kim Il-sung, the grandfather of the current North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. Carlo Calenda hopes for a big center, or a big crowd, depending on the point of view, built around Mario Draghi. An unidentified centrist bloc capable, as the leader of Action hopes, of clinging to the personality of the Prime Minister and staying in government for a long time, perhaps in an Italy that is increasingly proportional and similar to the one that lasted until the early years Ninety. A kind of Christian Democracy of the digital age, which is also present in the dreams of at least part of Forza Italia, represented by the ministers Renato Brunetta, Mariastella Gelmini and Mara Carfagna.
The neo-centrist impulses of Calenda and some sectors of Berlusconi's party can be understood, at least for reasons of political and cultural DNA, but Giorgetti's moves? The neo-centrism of the Northern League minister is hardly suited to a political force that owes its electoral resurrection from that 4 percent in which it had fallen to very different contents from the project of immobilizing Italy for years with a political soup with indefinite ingredients. Those who have followed and supported Salvini in the relaunch of the League in recent years and in its transformation from a secessionist party to a national container that is also able to lead the center-right coalition, find themselves uneasy today among the uncritical worshipers of the current prime minister. This does not at all mean that the Northern League should abandon Draghi tomorrow or that the head of the government should leave as soon as possible. This Prime Minister is certainly better than his predecessor Giuseppe Conte, even if it does not take long, to tell the truth, to overcome the incapacities of the current pentastellato leader, and perhaps Draghi has represented and will still have to represent for some time the only possible solution. Having him at the Colle does not seem to displease even the only opposition that exists today in Parliament, the Brothers of Italy.
But the present status-quo, that is that of a government of almost all in which a single man, albeit endowed with prestige and fame, dominates the parties that more or less reluctantly adapt, must be seen as a fixed-term reality and not as a political laboratory for future scenarios. Those who have taken votes for anything else cannot exempt themselves from this approach, if only for a matter of mere opportunity. Draghi is now experiencing a moment of strong feeling with the majority of the country (on the other hand, the Italians, still afraid of the last and gloomy two-year period, do not know which other saint to turn to), but how long will it last? We are reminded of another, very self-styled savior of the homeland, at the time idolized and considered a long-term leader, namely Mario Monti. Pierferdinando Casini kept repeating that Monti could not have done anything but happen to himself at Palazzo Chigi ( "after Monti there is Monti" , this was his refrain ), and Gianfranco Fini bet and lost his political career in the group fan centrist of the former European Commissioner. But what is left of Montismo? A small party, Civic Choice , which has evaporated for some years now.
But in addition to convenience, also the conviction, for those who love freedom despite this difficult period, to remain at a safe distance from any neo-centrist cauldron which as such would be the bearer of a single invalidating and oppressive thought, and it would raise to maximum power what already exists today in terms of general homologation, well supported by television, newspapers and politics. It is becoming more and more difficult to express ideas even just a little different from those of the official vulgate and it takes little to be immediately labeled as deplorables , even if you are leftist like Massimo Cacciari. Europe, according to the "correct" version, will send us a lot of money and will help us to overcome the post-pandemic, therefore, whoever still allows himself to have some reservations towards Brussels is nothing more than an irresponsible sovereignist. Expressing doubts about the vaccination of children or being against the mandatory Green Pass in the workplace is equivalent to being no-vax , no matter if doubly vaccinated and waiting for a third dose without worries. It goes without saying that the unvaccinated deserve only the pillory with unified networks.
Free spirits cannot surrender to this sinister conformism, but those who, whether they are from the Brothers of Italy, the Lega or other corners of the center-right, decide not to sacrifice themselves in the name of Mario Draghi, cannot limit themselves to protesting, but they must propose concrete and convincing contents to a country violated in its freedom and economically attacked. Otherwise, the humiliation suffered recently at the administrative offices can be repeated at the national level.
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