I’ll tell you about Conte’s disturbances
A little honey from Mieli per Conte, who has no shortage of worries …
Perhaps because he felt freer from the conditioning of an orchestra like Corriere della Sera, which just today made Antonio Polito sound yes and Angelo Panebianco no for the referendum on September 20 on cuts to parliamentary seats, Paolo Mieli is let go in an interview with the Truth . The former editor of the Corriere has renounced all caution in commenting on this "very chaotic" political season, marked by a "strong weakness of all structures".
Usually patient and confident, Mieli dismissed as "crazy" those – starting with the secretary of the Democratic Party, Nicola Zingaretti, guest today of the Republic – instead of "facing the problem of reopening schools with all the necessary energy, they have a single anxiety: reintroduce the proportional system ”, accelerating the process in the Chamber to make the substantial cut in parliamentary seats more digestible. Crazy, also because – it must be said by the way, even if Mieli spared it – the acceleration claimed by Zingaretti cannot materially translate by 20 September into the first of at least two necessary parliamentary steps. Therefore, the eventual confirmation of the cuts would be destined to remain as Mieli himself defined it: “a spit on Parliament”, without “a context of rewriting and redistribution of state powers”. Which, moreover, is different and more than a reform of the electoral law to return to the proportional system, considered by Zingaretti – but not by Mieli – the first and main corrective guarantee of a Parliament reduced from 945 to 600 seats, among a Chamber of 400 deputies and a Senate of 200 elected.
Mieli would prefer the majority system of the so-called Second Republic: that of bipolarism marked by the alternation at Palazzo Chigi between Silvio Berlusconi and Romano Prodi, albeit with the deviations, let's say, of the politicians Massimo D'Alema, Giuliano Amato, Enrico Letta, Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni and the technicians, at least in the first instance, Lamberto Dini and Mario Monti. This is a sequence that should also advise my friend Paolo not to mistake the majority system and the "bipolarism" that it would have produced, even restorable – after this ephemeral "third Republic" in progress – with the conversion to the left of the grillini, or what will remain of them following the laughter and desires attributed to the Genoese comedian founder, guarantor, "elevated" and so on of the 5 Star Movement.
While I disagree with the sanctification of the majority system and the demonization of the proportional system, which in the so-called First Republic allowed a substantial bipolarity constituted by the potential poles of government around the DC and the PCI, I share the "air of early elections" felt by Mieli. Who said: “In the autumn we will have to decide: groped to complete the legislature and get to the election of the President of the Republic or go to the polls in the spring. Right now I hear a lot of creaks ”from the Giallorossi majority, so“ the chances of going to early elections are growing ”, in fact.
Giuseppe Conte, however, struggling with that almost 13 percent of GDP ruinously less, will have done the spells at Palazzo Chigi by reading Mieli. But the spells are not objectively the solution to the problems that the government has, although the Keeper of the Seals and Head of the Grillina delegation, Alfonso Bonafede, has just defined a crisis as "science fiction".
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/conte-mieli/ on Tue, 01 Sep 2020 05:00:48 +0000.