Unsolicited advice from the center-right and center-left to avoid chaos
The "real solution" for the Quirinale is still standing but the path to get there is bumpy. The comment of Lodovico Festa, author with Giulio Sapelli of the book "Draghi o il chaos?"
Already after the summer it was clear how Italy was heading towards a new troubled passage. A largely technical government effectively dealt with fundamental issues such as fighting the pandemic and defining investments related to the NRP, but in the face of every political issue (even the problem of bathing establishments) the decisions, deprived of the emergency card that contained the various interests and points of view, tangled. The parliament, then, was in the throes of a terrible disarray caused by the explosion of the 5 stars, a relative majority force after 2018, and by the commissioner of national politics from 2011 onwards. The appointment for January 2022 with the election of the President of the Republic set the deadline in which the crisis would fully manifest itself.
In October in the book "Draghi o il chaos / The great disintegration: does Italy have a way out?" , my old friend Giulio Sapelli and I have described this process, hoping for an outcome: that the current Prime Minister would move to the Quirinale and thus guarantee the reorganization of the institutions that only the resumption of politics supported by the popular vote can allow. However, we felt that the ongoing processes were neither linear nor predictable.
The "real solution" is still standing but the path to get there is rough as expected.
The center-right is an array with an often intolerant but defined social base. The commissioner of politics interrupting the democratic dialectic has created various failures: a competition for leadership often with mediocre propaganda tones, a Silvio Berlusconi question that none of the interested parties addresses with the intertwining of respect and realism required, a slowed maturation of political culture .
In the Center-Left, ancient cultures with withered roots intertwine with articulated income and solid systems of foreign influence, which prevent regeneration. While the opposite irrelevances of Andrea Orlando and Maurizio Landini do not create that relationship with the world of work without which the left is not vital. In addition there is the problem of how to combine a wide field with a doily, not as noble as the action party, but as that glorious formation richer in generals than troops, and with the 5-star protest movement without proposal, main and in the process of putrefaction sterile fruit of the season of the commissioner of politics.
On the day you start voting for the presidency of the Republic, what can you hope for? That the evident desperation of the political forces creates awareness of all the dimensions of the current crisis not only determined by the pandemic and the need for new development but also by the crisis of the institutions. To respond to this triple challenge we need a wise director at the Quirinale but also a re-legitimized parliament. In tragic situations it is not enough to solve one horn of the dilemma, we must take into account the whole. The forces that invoke Mario Draghi's stay in Palazzo Chigi are unaware that this parliament in disarray in a pre-election year will drag any technician, no matter how super, to the bottom. This is why we need to divide the question into three: choose an authoritative director from Colle, that is Draghi, make a bipartisan agreement on emergency issues (pandemic and PNRR investments) and dissolve the chambers with a vote in June or at the latest in October.
In the meantime, the center-left has to face the knot of its configuration (doilies, Pd and 5 stars) also using the early vote to discipline itself. And the center-right must prefigure a prestigious role for Berlusconi to compensate him for the thirty-year persecutions and present an Economy Minister to be proposed in single-member colleges who speaks to that world of finance and industry today concerned about the relationship of Italian politics with global markets.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/primo-piano/consigli-non-richiesti-a-centrodestra-e-centrosinistra-per-evitare-il-caos/ on Mon, 24 Jan 2022 05:03:42 +0000.