The pitiful babaus of Repubblica
Democratic and constitutional alarm to the newspaper Repubblica for the latest move by Giorgia Meloni. Incredible but true… Damato's Scratches
I can't repeat what Indro Montanelli once wrote in one of his lightning-fast italics on the first page of the Giornale about the then DC secretary Flaminio Piccoli – "hell of a man, he manages to lose even what he doesn't have: his head ” – but the way in which the Republic fired on its entire front page today against a story given with a certain parsimony by Corriere della Sera , and downgraded by the unsuspected Fatto Quotidiano to such an extent as to end up only inside, is striking. It is Prime Minister Meloni's convocation of the opposition for next Tuesday in order to discuss the constitutional reform contained in the government program. “Challenge to the Constitution”, shouted the newspaper founded by the late Eugenio Scalfari. That "challenge to the Constitution", accompanied by a cartoon by Altan on a Meloni eager to "break the kidneys" of everyone, and not just France in the umpteenth case that broke out between the two neighboring and allied countries, is contradicted even by the editorialist of the same Republic Stefano Cappellini. Who, albeit under a title on the "presidential gamble", defines the premier's initiative to consult the opposition as "commendable" because – he writes – "too often in recent years the changes to the common rules have started and arrived with shameless blitzes of part".
More than this observation by Cappellini, the alarm of the illustrious collaborator and president emeritus of the Constitutional Court Gustavo Zagrebelsky against "Meloni's plan", which "exalts social hatred" and " divides the country". “It seems to me – says the professor to La Repubblica – that presidentialisms are giving a very bad impression also in France and in the United States. And it is certainly not a solution for our country. We complain about the social hatred that pervades Italian society. Presidentialism, founded on the split of the electorate into two opposing fronts, seems made on purpose to enhance the destructive aspect. A constitutional reform in this direction could feed a dangerous humus”, which is also felt in the “emphasis” of the right-wing prime minister “on the word nation, the relentless use of the term Italians instead of citizens”. In short, zero to the summary examination to which the premier supporting the direct election of either the President of the Republic or the Prime Minister was subjected.
But in addition to Meloni, her ministers, her allies, and her electors, Zagrebelsky takes it out on her constitutionalist colleagues, already guilty since the time of Bettino Craxi at Palazzo Chigi and Francesco Cossiga at the Quirinale of having let their guard down democratic and cultural and to have become "constitutionists". Which are the ones – lambasted by Zagrebelsky even in a book – at the substantial service of politicians ready to sacrifice democracy on the altar of "governability".
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/i-penosi-babau-di-repubblica/ on Sat, 06 May 2023 08:01:00 +0000.