Dear politician, the nation comes before the faction
Considerations on the sidelines of the dispute on the name of the post-flood commissioner in Emilia Romagna. Guiglia's notebook
How long will the encouraging effect of the press conference that in the midst of the flood emergency Giorgia Meloni, prime minister and Stefano Bonaccini, president of Emilia-Romagna, the affected region, promoted together to announce the government's decisions last?
What will be the concrete result of the embrace and compliments that the Fdi leader and the high exponent of the Democratic Party exchanged in public?
And then: how to assert the example of the right and the left, of the state and the region, of a woman and a man politically divided on everything, but not on the duty to react united to the catastrophe?
Judging by the controversies of the following day, the necessary agreement is already wavering. Faced with the government's hypothesis of appointing Bonaccini himself as commissioner for reconstruction, the center-right in the regional council has already said "no, thank you". In all evidence, Bonaccini's mere “belonging” to the opposing camp causes the political allergy of the others.
This is unfortunately not new, because the same ideological, rather than pragmatic, approach has been applied to reverse sides in the past.
Right and left join hands at the moment of disaster. But just a minute later they're back to being the Guelphs and Ghibellines they've always been.
Still, there are at least two recent methods that should teach contenders the difference between national and electoral interests.
The first bears the signature of the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella. When he realized that Parliament would no longer be able to maintain an efficient government, also because no coalition had emerged victorious from the elections, he called the best of all, Mario Draghi, to Palazzo Chigi. Without knowing if he leaned more to the right or left and expressly asking all the parties – in the face of the country's economic and health emergency – to support him beyond all differences.
The other method comes from Draghi himself. Faced with the need to have the Italians vaccinated – a choice that proved to be successful: we all hung up the mask on a nail – he too did not hesitate and called a general, Francesco Figliuolo, to this very tough task. She considered him the right person at the right time, regardless of his ignored political views.
The day when politics understands that the nation comes before the faction, will be a great day for everyone. Especially the day after the emergency.
)Published on L'Arena di Verona and Bresciaoggi)
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/cara-politica-la-nazione-viene-prima-della-fazione/ on Sun, 28 May 2023 07:06:53 +0000.