Justice referendums executed
The Scratches of Damato
A little, indeed a little too "delayed burst", as the manifesto perhaps rightly defined the protests in Italy against the thirteen years that Europe would like to give us time to no longer have new petrol cars or oil to be purchased, Matteo Salvini recalled that he had promoted with the radicals the five referendums on justice for which the day after tomorrow will be voted, simultaneously with the administrative elections in a thousand municipalities. And he earned a few headlines or front page remarks with an appeal to the Quirinale and Palazzo Chigi to "break the silence" over the referendum campaign, at risk of bankruptcy due to low turnout, less than half plus one of those entitled to vote still constitutionally necessary to make the result valid.
In this referendum campaign, on the other hand, a lot was spent, up to the Panellian hunger strike, by the League's vice president of the Senate Roberto Calderoli, practically branded by the usual Marco Travaglio on the equally usual Fatto Quotidiano as a participant in that world of "criminals" which would really be of interest the abrogative evidence for the greater possibilities offered to them to escape the arrests they deserve. That in Italy out of 55 thousand inmates there are more than eight thousand awaiting the first trial and more than seven thousand those awaiting subsequent degrees, before being definitively cleared or sentenced, in Labor and the like is obviously of little or nothing interest. And it would even be desirable that these numbers would still grow with the defeat or the sinking of the referendums so long forgotten by Salvini himself, who has been engaged on other political fronts for quite a few weeks and months.
Even of the common belonging to the center-right, also including the now competitor Giorgia Meloni, better placed than him and Silvio Berlusconi in the race to Palazzo Chigi when the elected Chambers will finally be renewed in 2018, Salvini only remembered last night by participating in a not even a completely unitary manifestation. In fact, in the Scaligera city the two have a common candidate for mayor, different from the one supported by Berlusconi, who is the former Northern League mayor in a certain historical sense, for a long time better known nationally than Salvini himself: Flavio Tosi.
The distractions, let's call them, of recent days, but also the disappointments caused him in the party by the reserves due to his desire, in recent weeks, to rush to Moscow to support a peace in Ukraine that is practically more favorable to the Kremlin than to Kiev, with which instead the government of Mario Draghi with strong League participation is deployed, they made Salvini miss the opportunity, not missed in some sense by Lucia Annunziata on the front page of the Press , to make very special birthday aid to Putin. Who returned yesterday to refer as a model to Peter the Great, whose 350 years had passed since his birth.
Now, joking aside on such slippery ground as that of the war in Ukraine, where not a day goes by without the Russians shedding more innocent blood in a land they invaded, I don't even know to what extent Salvini's newfound interest for Sunday's referendums on justice it may prove useful to their positive result, which can at least serve as a stimulus for subsequent legislative action in parliament. Perhaps to the point where he had now pushed himself into disinterest, consistent with the Northern League years of the noose in the Montecitorio courtroom, on which to hang the suspects for illegal financing of the parties of the so-called First Republic, Salvini also silently agreed to his party comrade Calderoli, as well as than to Emma Bonino, the radical icon who is openly controversial with him.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/giustiziati-i-referendum-sulla-giustizia/ on Fri, 10 Jun 2022 05:53:35 +0000.