Because I approve of Giorgia Meloni’s sweet slap to Giuliano Amato
What happened between Giuliano Amato and Giorgia Meloni. Damato's Scratches
Faced with the sarcasm that Giuliano Amato earned in Giorgia Meloni's press conference for the alarm raised against the " authoritarian drift " of the right in government, I was saddened by the esteem I have always had for the former Prime Minister, known when he was Bettino Craxi's right-hand man at Palazzo Chigi. If I don't repeat a line from three years ago by Beppe Grillo evoked in recent days by Tommaso Labate in the Corriere della Sera – "We are displeased by the mistakes of great men because they give idiots the opportunity to correct them – I owe it to the fact that I do not consider nothing stupid about the prime minister. Who, as a political professional as she confirmed in the meeting with journalists at the beginning of the year, blocking almost all the shots aimed at her goal, was able to grasp well, and equally well contest, the attack suffered by president emeritus of the Constitutional Court and relaunched by one of the first questions.
HOW MELONI REPLIED TO AMATO
In particular, the prime minister was able to explain well the fear of Amato's alleged authoritarian drift with the imminent expiration of the mandate of four of the constitutional judges of parliamentary election. To whom therefore the large majority available to the government in office would allow the election, in jointly assembled Chambers, of constitutional judges with a centre-right or right-centre orientation, as the coalition improvised in 1994 by the late Silvio Berlusconi ended up becoming and emerged surprisingly victorious from the first elections of the so-called Second Republic. These new four judges of the Consulta may be of a centre-right orientation, just as those elected in the past by centre-left or similar majorities were of an opposite orientation, without anyone ever being too surprised or scandalized by this.
THE KNOT OF THE QUESTION UNDERLYING AMATO'S SORT
Rightly convinced, also due to the pre-eminent role that a politician like her has been able to conquer electorally, that democracy entails equal rights for everyone, whether the majority is on the left or on the right, Meloni has found in the reasoning, as well as in the fear, of Amato an unacceptable vulnerability. All the more so because the parliamentary elected judges constitute only a third of the Constitutional Court, another third being appointed by the President of the Republic and another third appointed by the ordinary and administrative judiciaries, according to article 135 of the Constitution. Unless – said Meloni – we want to modify it to entrust the appointment of the supreme constitutional guarantee body "to the Democratic Party, after consulting some eminent specialists including Professor Giuliano Amato". Who will agree, due to the acumen, subtlety and other qualities that I recognize in him, that he deserved – I repeat – this thrust even in all its paradoxical character, very compatible with political controversy.
AMATO'S REACTION TO MELONI'S WORDS
Of course, happy new year anyway, peaceful and calm, dear Giuliano. Serene certainly not in the Renzian sense, about which Matteo Renzi himself has now become accustomed to joking, recalling his succession at Palazzo Chigi to an Enrico Letta whom he had just encouraged to continue his experience as Prime Minister. Unlike the presidency of a Palazzo Chigi commission on artificial intelligence, which he has just renounced in controversy with Meloni, who also declared herself almost uninvolved in the nomination, the presidency emeritus of the Constitutional Court is for life.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/perche-approvo-il-soave-ceffone-di-giorgia-meloni-a-giuliano-amato/ on Sat, 06 Jan 2024 07:21:38 +0000.