Draghi will undermine the power system of the Democratic Party. Speak Pilates
What will happen to the Democratic Party with the Draghi government. The interview of Frederick Ferrau Antonio Pilati for the Sussidiario.net
It is another post-war period: a time of reconstruction. This is what Mario Draghi said in the Senate, where his debut government won the trust with 262 yes, 40 no and 2 abstentions.
Draghi has rejected all the formulas with which they try to label the new government. “It is simply the government of the country. It doesn't need any adjectives ». He quoted Cavour and Pope Francis, he spoke of the country's belonging to the European Union and the Atlantic alliance, of "shared sovereignty" and the "irreversibility of the choice of the euro".
But there is a contradiction in the Draghi executive, according to Antonio Pilati, former Agcom commissioner, communication expert, essayist. It is therefore a factor of instability. The ruling class that will have to carry out the maxi-reforms envisaged by the Recovery Plan is the one linked to the Democratic Party, the party that for ten years was the pivot of the entire political system and that "has failed, in fact, precisely on Europe, star of his political action ".
Consequently, a new phase opens, very uncertain for the political balance that will be played out around Draghi and in the country. The game has already begun and the Lega and Pd are playing it.
Draghi himself spoke of a "new and completely unusual perimeter of collaboration" between political forces.
Sure. And to understand it, as in the yellow, you have to take a step back. With the bankruptcy of the Conte 2 government, a political phase that began in 2011 with the Trichet-Draghi letter and the fall of Berlusconi ended. Now a completely new one is opening.
Why go back even to the arrival of Monti?
Because then a ten-year period began, centered entirely on the Democratic Party, which except for the 15 months of Count 1 has always been in government. And it was the linchpin of the entire political system. The real novelty of the last crisis is that this ten-year structure has collapsed in the face of the inability to combat the health emergency and to meet European demands.
Therefore the Pd allied with M5s is the real cause of the crisis. And then?
That failure created a potentially risky void, which Mattarella filled with the assignment to Draghi. My impression is that Colle has chosen to promote this very large majority as a prelude to a new political phase.
What does this have to do with Draghi's speech?
With his speech, Draghi gained confidence in the government. But which government?
What the reforms requested by Europe will have to do.
R. Exactly. But there is an entire ruling class, ranging from the public administration to Confindustria, closely linked with the Democratic Party. In the construction of the new majority there was a certain propensity, a favor towards the center-left area, which is also the one most penalized by the failure of the previous equilibrium.
In fact, the Democratic Party has three ministries, but its economic policy has been rejected.
The rejection of the Democratic Party's economic policy is part of the Draghian core business. It was inevitable: Count 2, backed by the Democratic Party, has failed, in fact, precisely on Europe, that Europe that the left has always proclaimed as the guiding star of its political action.
What consequences does it draw?
Those political forces mark a continuity with the past and its failures. Here, in my view, lies the contradiction of this government.
A contradiction that weakens it?
A cumbersome legacy that can affect it. Who called Draghi wanted to open a new phase, but at the same time give breath to the forces that come out most damaged by the previous decade and management.
Where do you want to go?
Draghi intends to make important reforms. But it cannot ignore in its reform projects the administrative ruling class that must implement them. The force on which the political system has stood for years, the very reference force of the country's ruling class – the Democratic Party – is a party in a crisis of identity and strategy. He passed from the majority vocation to the proportional one, from a leadership – the Renzian one – open to the productive classes to one of Ingraian matrix, like that of Bettini, in connection with an executionist force, and in some respects even squadist like M5s. All this has led to a strategic stalemate that not only involves the Democratic Party, but leaves the ruling class of the country without a clear political reference.
To understand, that surreal "to confirm Gualtieri, stability is needed" of the president of Confindustria Bonomi.
We are in the situation of rebuilding a political system and making important reforms while the connections between social forces, ruling classes and political parties are being redefined.
It seems to me an important point. Could it be more explicit?
The crisis of the Pd party-system is also the crisis of its referents in the public administration, in Confindustria, in large companies, in large media. The Draghi government, with its challenging core business, Europe, the Recovery Plan, the fight against the pandemic without stopping the economy will also have to be a decanting government, to rebuild the political scene and recompose relations between political forces and the other powers of the state.
How does the game being played in this time look like and who are its main protagonists?
Undoubtedly Lega and Pd, who must redefine their strategy. The League is changing the game, starting with a few watchwords. It is not just about international recognition. Numerically, the League is the first party, it is the party of small businesses and VAT numbers, which, however, have no political power, just as the League has no power in the state apparatus, in the Confindustria world and in the media. It must not only accredit itself with international powers, but also with respect to these worlds.
Hence the support for Draghi and the government. And the PD?
It is still linked to the revival of the bankruptcy strategy of the old context. But to insist, as Zingaretti is doing, in a line of extremist roots is a desperate act.
Did he say "extremist roots"?
That of the alliance with the 5 Stars, who had an exceptional investiture from the electorate but then did not know what to do with it. They have caused confusion and fueled demagogic battles without a leadership capacity of the national community, and this has gradually marginalized them. Zingaretti could suffer the same fate.
Is that between the Pd and the League a virtuous competition? Or what else? Who will be the winner?
It is a competition that lies within the birth of the new political order which for now still appears to be indeterminate.
Interview published on IlSussidiario.net, here the full version.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/draghi-mettera-in-crisi-il-sistema-di-potere-del-pd-parla-pilati/ on Sat, 27 Feb 2021 06:26:35 +0000.