Why don’t I say “good Renzi”
Renzi's game is not worth the candle: to pass from one government to another, it is not responsible to risk that a crisis will lead the country into disarray. Giuliano Cazzola's opinion
“A speech that is evidently not liked in the darkest places of political politics. But that represented a new breath in a world rendered bloodless by the excesses of opportunism. From the transformations, a little cowardly of an endless season that has almost completely destroyed the country ''.
So my friend Gianfranco Polillo commented on the statements of the leader of Italia Viva at the press conference. He's right.
How right are those who in these hours seem to breathe sighs of relief in the hope of a clear break with a policy that was not able to get out of the trap of the health emergency and the practice of assistance in refreshments.
Are we back to sailing in the open sea, then?
In my opinion, during the press conference, the former premier made only one mistake: a very serious one.
He spoke as if he had read the essay by Fabrizio Barca and Enrico Giovannini, presented in recent days, entitled “That different world. To imagine, to fight for, that can be realized ”(Laterza); and was convinced that he was living in another country, with a political system capable of making that leap in quality that the leader of IV requires and therefore considers possible.
Since he is not a visionary and knows his chickens very well, Renzi is aware that there is no government capable of doing what would be necessary in Italy, with this Parliament. In fact, things are much more likely to get worse.
Renzi – as he said yesterday – is the king maker of the majority and of the government he has put in crisis. And, on that occasion, he was so lucid that he convinced the parties to join his project by pursuing two specific objectives: to reconcile Italy with Europe; to have the new Head of State elected by a Parliament with a pro-European majority. '' Vaste program '' President De Gaulle would have said.
These reasons have not disappeared, on the contrary they have become more and more relevant.
If it was important, in the summer of 2019, to cut the way to Matteo Salvini's '' triumphal march '' towards '' full powers '' by carrying out the '' miracle '' of a new majority, it makes sense to endanger that result, when there is much more at stake now than then?
In a film of the Brancaleone saga, it's up to his '' army '' of beggars to defend a fortress from the raids of the Saracens on the coasts of southern Italy. Our heroes are so clumsy that they end up falling into the trap prepared for the opponents, who conquer the bastion without a shot being hurt.
And if the crisis opened the doors to early elections, to a victory of the center right which, moreover, would find itself having to manage the division of a European Marshall Plan prepared also with the aim of helping Italy not to fall back into the arms of Salvini?
Renzi's game is not worth the candle: to pass from one government to another, it is not responsible to risk that a crisis will lead the country into disarray.
The Next Generation EU – Renzi should know – does not represent only an economic program, but also demands a political leap: sticking to the Brussels autopilot.
There is no need to ask an Italian government to shake off its inertia: it is enough for it to accept being led by the Union.
Which a superpopulist government will never do. It doesn't seem to me that this is an insignificant difference.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/perche-non-dico-bravo-a-renzi/ on Thu, 14 Jan 2021 12:21:44 +0000.