Moro anti Meloni?
Poor Moro enlisted ex officio and dead in the troops against the constitutional reform. Damato's Scratches
The late Aldo Moro – whose 45th anniversary of that horrible death inflicted on him by the Red Brigades after 55 days of painful imprisonment in a hideout cynically promoted to "prison of the people" by the assassins occurs today – happened in recent days to be referred to by some he starts as a posthumous victim of the constitutional reform launched by the Meloni government by consulting the opposition on this very 9 May 2023. “Reforms in the dark”, headlines today Repubblica .
Of the Constitution in force since 1948 the professor in charge of criminal law and philosophy of law Aldo Moro was certainly among the architects, elected in 1946 to the Constituent Assembly in the Christian Democrat lists of his native Puglia. And, having become secretary of the DC in 1959, taking over from Amintore Fanfani, he was certainly horrified at the mere idea presented to him by his university colleague Gianfranco Miglio of modifying it, after just eleven years of life, in a federalist and presidential sense.
Miglio was on a list of consultants, friends and I don't know what else that Fanfani used to hear and Moro had the curiosity and courtesy to want to listen before deciding whether or not to continue availing himself of their opinions. For Miglio he decided negatively after the meeting, instructing Franco Salvi to remove him from the list. But it was – I repeat – 1959. In government, the Christian Democrat secretary had only had the opportunity to act as undersecretary, then as minister of public education, then again as minister of justice. In 1963 he would go from secretary of the DC to prime minister to remain uninterruptedly at Palazzo Chigi until 1968 and return briefly between the end of 1974 and 1976, first passing through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Quirinale was waiting for him as president of the DC, but above all ruler of the crusader shield now recognized by all, at the end of Giovanni Leone's presidential mandate, in 1978, if the red terrorists had not tragically cut short his career.
To maintain, after such a long practice of government and politics, that Moro had remained stationary at that 1959 meeting with Miglio and to enlist him now, ex officio and dead, in the troops against the reform in the pipeline is at least a gamble for me. Who – for what counts, for heaven's sake, my very modest acquaintance with the statesman whom I defended from all the tripping and ambushes received in the party – I believe he had had the opportunity to touch certain limits of the Constitution with his own hands. In 1976, for example, he pointed to the curious "two winners" who emerged from the polls, not allies in front of the electorate but opposed, like his DC and Enrico Berlinguer's PCI. And he theorized a "truce" that cost him his life also due to the weakness that a certain constitutional practice had brought to the system.
I would humbly advise that poor Moro, put in charge of the untouchability of the 1948 Constitution, be spared this other abuse of his life and his death.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/moro-anti-meloni/ on Tue, 09 May 2023 06:16:59 +0000.