Here are the real challenges (not only economic) of the Meloni government
The worried statements by Von der Leyen and Biden on the upcoming Meloni government are understandable only in the light of a nuisance for a strategic strengthening of our nation in the world. The analysis of professor Benedetto Ippolito, historian of philosophy
The Italian political situation, after the elections of 25 September, is experiencing a phase of anxious waiting for the formation of the new government which will enter full capacity in about a month. Many national and international observers have expressed doubts, concerns and concerns. These are feelings that are not only legitimate but understandable, although they are not absolutely objectively justified to date.
We do not yet know what kind of organizational structure Giorgia Meloni will give at Palazzo Chigi, nor are there any facts that can cast doubt in any way on the democratic stability of the republican system.
Something simpler and more important has happened. The Italian people have chosen discontinuously with respect to the past and wanted to focus, in the tried and tested center-right coalition, on political strength and on the leadership evidently considered more reliable. Therefore, it is not a revolution but rather a clear popular preference, which appears justified above all, at least to those who observe things with impartiality, due to the fragmented and unconvincing offer of the competitors.
Today the real question is what we should expect from this five-year period that has begun. The great economic and international uncertainties, complete with the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war, global recession due to inflation and shortage of energy supplies, find us in great difficulty, challenging the overall stability of our economic and social system, already chronically fragile and disintegrated.
It is clear, therefore, that many government decisions will be inevitable, many options required, starting with collaboration with the European Union and the Atlantic Alliance. In this sense, the worried statements of Von der Leyen, first, and Biden, after, do not appear very acute and far-sighted, being understandable only in the light of a personal and environmental annoyance for a possible strategic strengthening of our nation in the world.
In short, it is better for them to have a weak, manipulable, exploitable ally, rather than a strong and collaborative ally country: a position, this of the international notable, which is a loser, all in all, because it is justified solely by ideological and selfish reasons, not erected. on the real state of existing things.
What can we really expect from the future Meloni government on a political level?
Surely, in the midst of unpredictable contingencies, there are two specific points that are sound from the programmatic point of view: always act in the national interest and work quickly on institutional reforms.
As regards the first point, the most culturally determined, it is logical that a patriotic right-wing policy will move in the direction of a series of initiatives aimed at guaranteeing the defense of the most fragile classes on a social level and the overall enhancement in the economic system of the quasi defunct middle class, with interventions in favor of productivity, work and development. Therefore, not a fixed, sterile, welfare and parasitic recipe of fake progressivism, perhaps supported by the usual rhetoric favorable only to secondary rights, but a general, essential action that looks at the entire complex complex of our community and addresses itself eagerly to protect the value of the whole national at the expense of partial privileges of categories or specific sectors too defended in a corporate way.
On the other hand, acting in the national interest, acting for the good of the whole of society, has always been a programmatic and cultural prerogative of the right, as well as the ultimate goal of any good government. In addition, the fact that the Brothers of Italy specifically lead this coalition, starting from the parliamentary level, adds two more potential guarantees compared to the previous Lega and Forza Italia primates: that is to say, it offers a greater guarantee for the needs collective with respect to individual party needs, both local and personal, which can always emerge and undermine the achievement of objectives. In short, it is better to have to govern those who are less experienced but better placed, than those who are more experienced but also too tied to interests that, in the long run, are destined to contradict the initial good intentions, causing the compactness of the alliance.
Secondly, there are the aforementioned institutional reforms. The latter have been considered necessary by all and for a long time. Nonetheless, none of the precedents, starting with Craxi in the 1980s, moving to Berlusconi's and D'Alema's Bicameral in the 1990s and ending with the two rejected referendums in 2006 and 2016, was able to bring them resolutely to an end.
Reforming the institutions means not only modifying the Constitution, but changing the state system, with its bureaucratic and quirky darkness, injustices and slowness, making the legal castle a little less inaccessible, more rational and appropriate to the times and fast ways and sudden that today the problems and needs of citizens impose on the public administration. Changing some structural aspects of the state means making our Republic more democratic and efficient, less artificial and quirky. To this end, it is not only a question of seriously implementing the direct election of the head of state, but also of effectively and efficiently changing our tax and judicial system, as well as the regional and local balance, which many problems gave and gives to the functioning of the public machine centrally.
National interest and state reform, therefore, are the objectives of the Legislature that the Italian people expect to see achieved by the new Conservative government.
To this is added, not least, a collective desire for cultural discontinuity, which is certainly not a secondary trait of the consents reaped by the Brothers of Italy. It is not possible to tolerate as immovable dogmatic intellectual elites who have assumed an absolute power of post-Marxist and libertarian hegemony on some key and central themes in people's lives, such as, for example, the value of human existence, defense and promotion of the natural family and the consequential demographic increase, the community spiritual and religious tradition. It is not possible that in Italy for decades only a progressive, materialist and falsely multicultural ideology, very questionable and unsuccessful for its relativist implications, has had civil legitimacy, without in the end there is in the majority of citizens a healthy, necessary, opposite conservative reaction and contrary. On this cultural side, the battle will be crucial and tough. Therefore it is very important that the right does not make mistakes, does not fall into naivety, and lives up to its own ideas and the opposite philosophy that they want to fight.
In essence, Italy today wants to see an adaptation of politics as a whole to the specific cultural, economic and ideal essence of the Italian people and their common mentality. For this reason, the measure of the success or otherwise of the future Meloni-led government will be evaluated not by this or that more or less sympathetic minister, not by this or that error or success, but by the ability to ensure, in a stormy sea where we are navigating on sight, a firm alternative to the cultural disintegration of Europe and Italy, with an uncompromising management of the national interest inspired by the desire to give the State the adequate human vision it must have, the appropriate reforms necessary, which concretely serve to make our democracy truly integral and Italy spiritually and materially stronger.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/ecco-quali-saranno-le-vere-sfide-non-solo-economiche-del-governo-meloni/ on Thu, 29 Sep 2022 08:54:11 +0000.