The seven battles of the XVIII Legislature: how Lega and 5S surrendered and the Democratic Party took back the country
The XVIII legislature of the Italian Republic took place a long time ago. Whose very curious story we are going to summarize.
First battle – It opened on 23 March 2018, after the electoral triumph of the revolution party . In the form of two movements, one left and one right, called subversive , anti-system , revolutionary . Revolutionary was certainly the concept that made them so popular: # Fuoridall € uro for one, Enough € uro for the other. This was the only battle won by the revolutionary party .
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Second battle – Faced with it, lonely and beaten, the party of order . In the form of the conservative and reactionary movement par excellence, the Pd. So depressed as to induce one of the two anti-system movements, the left one, to become a system movement itself. Not of a new system, however, but of the old system, giving up the revolutionary concept . With the good result of electorally evaporating and ending up handmaid of the original in which she had wished to incarnate. This was the first of three battles won by the party of Order .
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Third Battle – This opened up prairies to the second of the two anti-system movements, the right one. It was then that a flu epidemic was presented as the bubonic plague. And it was terror, and it was let us join together in cohort . It was then that a maxi-loan conditional as not even those of the IMF was presented as the tree of sequins. And it was consent for all those who, up to that day, the people had disgusted. This was the second of three battles won by the party of Order .
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Battle Four – The right anti-system movement could wait for the propaganda to pass, expose the pandemic lies, point out the monstrously unpopular conditions. Instead nothing, he lost his head . Not only did he believe in the sequin tree but, worse, he entrusted his hands and feet to the cat and the fox.
To the fox, in particular, who showed a very special curriculum: Antonveneta , the letter with Trichet, the Fiscal Compact , Greece, the butchery of Italian banks. Pure abomination for a right-wing voter. Sweet melody for right-wing politicians, caught by the same disease that had seized the left anti-system movement: the desire to become a system movement by renouncing the revolutionary concept .
And the fox came. And with the lockdown , the Green Pass and the panic of the tampon he succeeded in the impossible feat of killing the rebound of the Italian economy. And with the super Green Pass he excluded disobedient Italians from citizenship rights, as before him only the old Duce. All with the consent of the two already anti-system movements. Happy, the latter, to exchange their voters with the empty promises of the new Duce. This was the third of three battles won by the party of Order . Whose triumph could not be said to be fuller.
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Fifth battle – Faced with it, the orphaned party of the revolution was completely disarmed. To the point of inducing the party of Order to split up. First imperceptibly . So much so that, even today, it seems difficult to understand what separated the supporters of the cat from the supporters of the fox: perhaps only the different camarilla , the belonging to two different groups of the same indigenous elite, fighting each other to gain accreditation with the external powers that made the good and bad weather in the country. Not a different cruelty towards the natives, since they competed to see who compressed their income and rights more severely. Not economic policy, since they never showed a different one.
Then loudly , when it came to choosing the new head of state. And it was the laceration of the already sinister anti-system movement, whose leader apparently fought against Draghi's candidacy, indeed against his own internal oppositions. And it was the laceration of the already anti-right system movement, where the challenge was not only internal to the movement, but also internal to the coalition where a certain other right-wing movement was seated, officially in opposition to the government and yet ready to elect its prime minister. of the state.
Thus, in both movements already anti-system, the presidential election turned into the challenge between congressional motions, neither of which questioned the fatal renunciation of the revolutionary concept . In fact, the victory of the leaders did not represent at all the return to the party of the revolution , but rather: for the movement already anti-sinister system, the comfortable reception in the winning faction of the party of order ; for the already anti-right system movement, the awkward construction of a hypothetical third faction of the party of order , which should have been called the republican party , moderate federation or who knows what else.
Thus it happened that the government majority did not formally split, voting opposite candidates. Thus denying the prime minister the opportunity to play his best card, resignation. And, in so doing, he was beaten. Which was all well and good . But so it was also that those who had miserably lost the popular elections, had the country back in their hands.
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Battle Six – The loser lingered in the prime minister's lavish salons, imagining a revenge. He had weapons. He could organize his followers into some new combination. He could have caught the leader of the already anti-right system movement in the middle of the ford , on the path of the phantom moderate federation , perhaps imposing him the ratification of the New ESM Treaty . He could turn the competition with the winning faction of the party of Order into a mud fight. But he had to hurry: the iceberg loomed and the empty promises on which he had arrived would soon be revealed as such. In the newspapers, by now, the enemies advised him to " call himself out ".
Of all this, the winning faction of the party of Order seemed conscious. As for the empty promises of the loser, they had also been the promises of the winning faction and perhaps it was for this reason that the re-elected head of state presented real government policies opposed to the policies of the government and suitable to delegitimize it, with the enthusiastic echo the rest of the winning faction. As for the iceberg , it was incumbent on everyone and it seemed wise to leave Draghi to Chigi to take it in the face in the time of the elections, moreover resigned, that is, a representative of no one.
It did not seem necessary to wait for a new, more proportional electoral law since, as we have seen, the opposition between friends and enemies of the defeated prime minister was, in what had been the right , much deeper than in what had been the left .
No one doubted that the head of state would have been able to give up with the same ease with which he had renounced the perplexities shown in the matter of his own re-election.
Certain referendums threatened on the subject of justice contributed to these decisions. What would have happened if the newly defeated prime minister had taken possession of them? It was therefore necessary to prevent them. Ideally through a swift and cosmetic reform of the government initiative, but it would not have been possible without the help of the beaten Draghi. In the alternative, mowing them down through the scrutiny of the Constitutional Court , but doing it with everyone would not have been prudent. Certainly, by postponing them by the way of early general elections .
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Seventh battle – Early general elections, to oppose, this time, not the party of order to the party of the revolution . The latter is destined not to be represented in Parliament, or rather only by a small group of testimony. But the two (or perhaps three) factions of the former, mysteriously divided but programmatically compatible. And with the head of state belonging to the winning faction, there to exercise the legitimate powers of appointing the prime minister and those usurped in 2018 by appointing ministers.
What could have gone wrong?
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