All the dangerous fixations of the 5 Star Movement
Alessandra Servidori's post
During the 3 days of Cernobbio, once the "Grand class" of the economy, the little theater of this government's political inadequacy was broadcast. A masterpiece of ambiguity both on the famous technical / scientific document of the times of the first wave of pandemic published with some omissions that are a whole program, and on the commitments that we should take on the various steps that await us on European funds.
There is never a hint of what Count 1 and Count 1.5 did, having increased the public debt with the citizen's income, share one hundred, unfulfilled promises on Flat tax, hostility towards the European Union, opening towards China by Luigi Di Maio and to Russia with Matteo Salvini.
Not to mention in terms of economic reforms and recovery projects, for which they did not go beyond the bonuses and the latest in no particular order such as the " holidays ": as of August 31, not even a tenth of the 5 million Italians who the government had assumed they were the audience, it took advantage of it, spending just 200 million of the 2.4 billion allocated (8%).
While Minister Gualtieri continues to repeat that the recovery is facing, but we know well that to the detriment of Covid they have repaired by replacing with social safety nets, bonuses, one-off payments, allowances, taxes postponed (slightly) to income and turnover reduced by the lockdown. The truth is that they have pretended to keep jobs alive with the redundancy freeze that just ended, will cause a dying of jobs and forget about other hires.
"The subsidies are used to survive, to restart", Mario Draghi said at the Rimini Meeting, but young people must be given more because "the subsidies will run out" and if the debt spending has not served to train them professionally, to create new opportunities , they will be the sacrificial victims.
The truth is that there is a transversal alliance in the country – which holds together pieces of the majority and the opposition and which also includes the trade unions – which expresses a very explicit line: many resources will arrive that will allow us to get by by distributing and collecting subsidies. . Conte even had to defend himself from the word trafficker Di Maio, to be able to argue the Italian financial prerogatives in the Next Generation Eu program.
The 5Stelle trot anxious for the outcome of their initiative in the referendum, proving that they exist only if the cut of parliamentarians receives the majority of the consensus. It is a partial, untimely pseudo reform, in full crisis from Covid-19, which would save the State only a package of millions, while national attention should be focused on the selection and planning of real reforms, those financed by the New Generation Eu , a complex program designed for young people, recovery and employment; reforms targeted and controllable by the European Commission, the implementation of which will require consistency, experience and competence.
What they call reform is nothing more than a decapitation of Parliament, only irresponsible bulimia of power to remain in the government that leads their Pd ally to bow its head and become a follower. A real reform must provide for a different bicameral system (the two Chambers have the same functions, but vote separately), therefore an adequate regional representation, a differently articulated power of the Prime Minister and a new electoral law; and above all the maintenance of the centrality of the parliament of democratic life suitable for a polycentric and polyarchic civil, economic and political society like the Italian one and consistent with the whole legal system.
The electoral promise of the "cut" in the 5S is part of the populist flags waved in the name of anti-caste and anti-armchair fury (except theirs) and the attempt to diminish the role of Parliament while waiting to be able to replace it, as they have promised, with a large digital machine: therefore a minority that practices with tyranny what they call direct democracy.
This guillotine has negative effects: constituencies to be redesigned, the voting system to be changed, parliamentary regulations to be rewritten, the role of the two Chambers to be redefined, all entrusted to generic and unreliable promises of future legislative interventions. They swore in perjury that they would complete the work with a reform of the electoral system to be done before the referendum, in a year they have done absolutely nothing. A constitutional reform needs an ordinary law but remains orphan of it, militating against it not only the fact that it has not been culpably completed, but also and above all that it is clear that it is unbalanced, poisonous, mean. If the No are many – even if unfortunately they do not prevail – they will signal the existence of an Italy different from the one that has given itself, in one of the darkest hours of its history, to a handful of good for nothing.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/blog/movimento-5-stelle/ on Mon, 07 Sep 2020 13:36:31 +0000.