Great Center, a great misunderstanding and a great risk: to seal the commissioner
After the week of earthquake that led to the re-election of Sergio Mattarella, the latest negotiations focus on the new promised land of Italian politics: the center. An area that is moderate and out of the way of the dynamics of bipolarity.
The two coalitions are in pieces and for days we have witnessed the inauguration of a great centrist project: the new DC, the new Margherita, the new Forza Italia and so on and so forth. After thirty years of bipolarity, the "moderates" are trying to make room for themselves and the parliamentary situation, for once, works in their favor. The executive is not destined to last long, the health emergency is not eternal and the parties, with a careful eye on the political elections, are starting to look around.
The goal is to form a moderate center, a third pole independent of the center-right and the center-left. The new group, born in the Senate from the union of Italia Viva , Coraggio Italia and Noi Campani goes in this direction. A project promoted by Matteo Renzi, Giovanni Toti and Clemente Mastella to which a wing of the 5 Star Movement could be added, the one led by Luigi Di Maio, and part of Forza Italia.
The construction site of the Grande Centro, inaugurated last week in the Senate, brings with it a great misunderstanding and at the same time an enormous risk for our democracy.
Let's start with the misunderstanding. The centrist operation foresees a confused plan and, no doubt, with few precedents. First of all, it presupposes a proportional electoral law, without which moderate ambitions would remain only dreams. Secondly, given its heterogeneous composition, the party itself would have little electoral response and the risk of foolishness is just around the corner. The forecasts, perhaps too optimistic in recent weeks, see him launched towards 15 per cent in the polls, but in these cases the real sum is always lower than the total of the polls.
We are talking about parties that currently barely reach 2 per cent and even before starting some protagonists have prematurely abandoned the project. Carlo Calenda, leader of Action , promptly stepped aside and the next political elections will see him arm in arm with + Europe and a stranger to the theoretical centrist party. Thus stands out the weakness of a political project without cultural foundations and without any support from Italian citizens, little interested in the weak centrist alliances and the so-called moderate pole. A condition of dangerous self-referentiality, which is played out in a debate that fascinates politicians and professionals but which probably leaves the voters cold and disinterested. A not insignificant misunderstanding for a party that, polls in hand, should act as a needle in the balance of the next political elections.
So why fight for such a fragile project and pursue an inefficient alliance solution both politically and on the electoral front?
The answer to the question leads us to face the enormous risk that this project brings with it: the risk of a commissioner, this time real, of politics. An outcome that would represent an indelible stain on our parliamentary democracy.
The only pivot that can hold together the heterogeneity of this project is the current Prime Minister and the first to recognize it are the parties themselves. The goal, in fact, is not to create a new party and exploit Draghi's image as an alleged federator in the electoral campaign, but to ask the former ECB number one to subordinate his personal ambitions and continue his work. at Palazzo Chigi. Thus implementing the reforms (including the NRP) beyond the natural expiry of the legislature, beyond the next political elections and therefore beyond 2023.
The risk is an institutional short circuit that would translate into reality the aforementioned risk of a policy commissioner. Yet another sign of weakness in a policy that is struggling to find its own identity. Another symptom of the crisis of the parties, increasingly distant from the voters and increasingly reluctant to develop their own programmatic line based on ideas and principles. To confront democratically, to compete on the sound of proposals and not through blind and short-term alliances.
The hard and cold tone with which Mario Draghi peremptorily excluded his future political commitment in the last press conference must not deceive us. Nothing prevents him from exploiting the structural weakness of the parties and the absence of true alliances to re-propose himself as the guarantor of national unity. Exploiting the crisis, this time partisan and not health-related, to overcome the elections, override the electoral will of the citizens and re-impose a technical guide to Palazzo Chigi.
Draghi's image and political future cannot be the backbone of a political alliance. It is important for all Italian parties to outline an agenda for the next elections, to clearly determine their positions and to establish a relationship of mutual trust with the electorate. Proving itself capable of taking over the leadership of the country again. The political commissioner, of which they complain, must be opposed in the first place by the parties, not by favoring it.
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