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How will the reformist components of the opposition move? Vincenzo Mattina's speech

Arrived in Montecitorio in 1994, when the Berlusconi-Bossi alliance sent Irene Pivetti to preside over the Assembly, I thought I should not have seen other havoc in the occupation of the top functions of the state. Instead, there is never an end to the worst and we found ourselves on 13 and 14 October 2022 on the highest seat of the Senate and the Chamber, two personalities with political backgrounds that are anything but reassuring for the balanced management of the democratic dialectic.

The sen. La Russa, it must be acknowledged, has done everything to weaken the physiological distance between him and the transitory president, Liliana Segre, to the extent that his applause at many passages of the Senator's intervention for life was not courtesy, but of total sharing, offering her a bouquet of flowers at the end of the session and hinting a kiss on the cheeks.

The past is not erased, but it is reasonable to hope that political experience and good legal preparation will allow him to live this passage of his life looking forward and not backward, towards a past definitively condemned by history.

Hon. Fontana, in his inauguration speech on the highest seat of Montecitorio, instead wanted to mark his link with the values ​​of the Salvinian League, citing Pope Francis out of all proportion and fully assuming the role of the "clericalized layman", a category of Catholic all other than appreciated by the Pontiff.

He spoke of the protection of the Christian diversity of Europe against the invasion of migrants of the most diverse races and religions, forgetting that Pope Francis encourages us every day to welcome, respect for diversity and even had the courage to go and ask for forgiveness. to the aborigines of Canada for the forced conversions of several centuries ago.

A man of faith as he declares himself, Fontana is not even informed that the peace he invokes, the one that puts the aggressor and the attacked on the same level, has nothing to do with that for which Pope Francis works in every moment of his life, that it is no coincidence that he wanted to participate in person at the "VII Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions" in Kazakhstan. He even went so far as to provide an assist to the League's proposal for differentiated regionalism, the content of which is so damaging to Italian unity and identity that it is not compatible with the neutrality of direction that the President of an Assembly holding legislative power must have. , if only that proposal would entail, if translated into law, the worsening of the social and economic delay of the South.

Faced with this situation and in anticipation of the forthcoming Meloni government, the mission of the political cultures defeated on 25 September must be the recovery of relations with the real country, the development of proposals that give rational and immediate answers to the needs of the today and address the socio-economic problems of the country in the medium and long term, taking those proposals as a yardstick for evaluating the legislative measures activated by the government majority and / or by the government itself.

An example for everyone: within days, the defeated who refer to the reformist culture (of which the M5S is not part), must reset the citizenship income system, distinguishing the assistance, reserved and enhanced only and exclusively to those who, due to physical impediments and / or senescence, do not have adequate incomes for a decent living condition, from the inclusion income (yes, the RE.I., that of the unjustly reviled Jobs Act) of which formalized procedures already exist, which can be improved by of course, but respecting the rule that the right to subsidy is strictly dependent on the duty of practicing training courses aimed from the beginning at the insertion into the work circuit, an objective that can only be achieved if flexsecurity, now widely practiced by the Employment Agencies, will have a public support and whether the local authorities will be able to act in collaboration with the employment centers.

This passage of Italian political history requires, in any case, vigilance and proactive capacity especially on the part of the political representatives of the reformist area (PD, Italia viva, Action, certainly not M5S), who have not received a mandate to oppose, as thinks the Hon. Read, but rather to make proposals and to compete with rigor and selectivity with the choices of the majority. It goes without saying that today as yesterday, and more than yesterday, the reaction of weapons must be firmly condemned, announced by threats accompanying the design of the five-pointed star which was and remains the worst finding of a black page in the history of the country. In short, it is the time of active and continuous vigilance, of the reconstruction of civic participation, not of physical violence and not even of verbal violence on social media and television, which can well become an anticipation and solicitation.

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/le-vere-sfide-di-pd-azione-e-italia-viva/ on Tue, 18 Oct 2022 06:26:10 +0000.