Macron lame duck in France. But wasn’t Paris an electoral model?
How the parliamentary elections went in France and what happens in Italy. The Scratches of Damato
We have ended, I believe, to envy the French for their two-round electoral system combined with presidentialism. Now, after the second round, in fact, of the legislative elections, President Emmanuel Macron, still fresh from confirmation, finds himself a lame duck, without a majority in Parliament, where I fear he will have to look for it once at a time.
"Ungovernable France", headlined La Stampa , which has a consolidated authority in international analyzes, ending up not by chance in the crosshairs of Putin and his ambassador in Rome, Razov, who practically denounced it as false and incitement to the plot for chronicles on the war in Ukraine, without however convincing either the magistrates chosen for this very little diplomatic adventure, those of the capital, or the competent ones. Who are from Turin – the city of the Press – who hastened to file the papers of Rome saving themselves some retaliatory missiles, at least so far, given that perhaps not everyone in the Kremlin has lost their heads like Putin and his imitator, competitor and so on. Medvedev.
France, with President Macron tight, with about forty seats missing from the majority, between Melenchon's left and a right that went from 8 to 89 parliamentary seats in one fell swoop, is perhaps even more ungovernable than Italy. Which also allows itself the luxury in these days of having a Foreign Minister – not of Transport or whatever this department is now called – tried by his party, the 5 Star MoVement , because he is too Atlanticist and practically warmonger: a Di Maio who the detractor Marco Travaglio can scornfully call Di Mario to enslave him to Mario, in fact, Draghi. With which the real clash cultivated and wanted in the Roman palaces of power by his predecessor Giuseppe Conte would be consummated, never resigned to abandoning Palazzo Chigi, and shouted with a lot of title on the first page of the Fatto Quotidiano . By now there are no longer any qualms in journalistic support. The game is played with the cards exposed. And this is basically not bad. It is an involuntary as well as deserving contribution to transparency that usually does not easily combine with politics.
The difficulties that emerged from the French ballot boxes further bring Macron and Draghi together, on a human and political level: two personalities who have forged a relationship of cordiality and political convergence as if they were the first to sense what united them and would unite them even more in the future. Draghi already governs in everyday life – and not only in the plural of the newspaper that is most hostile to him – without a true majority in Parliament, however large it was born more than a year ago for reasons of force majeure, since it is then not possible to resort to elections anticipated to get out of the crisis into which the legislature that began in 2018 had fallen. The Italian prime minister could become a model for Macron. Which unlike him, however, is at the beginning of his political mandate, not towards the long end like that of Draghi, practically condemned to remain at Palazzo Chigi until the spring of next year. Except that the genius of his true and main adversary -Conte, word of his admirer Travaglio- fails to shoot himself in the foot to the point of obliging the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella to anticipate the renewal of Chambers more than boiled.
In this long – I repeat – and confused final of the legislature in Italy, with the drawbacks of a war in Europe and a world emergency in many respects, formulating forecasts, wishes and anything else is not just risky. It is simply useless, especially in the heat.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/macron-anatra-zoppa-in-francia-ma-parigi-non-era-un-modello-elettorale/ on Mon, 20 Jun 2022 05:39:55 +0000.