Why is the left screaming so much against presidentialism?
What the journalistic controversy hides after Berlusconi's sentence on presidential reform and Mattarella
A short sentence, in response to the question of the Radio Capital journalist who asks whether Sergio Mattarella should resign if the presidential reform is approved. Berlusconi who answers yes. And it is immediately '94, that eternal '94 from which the left has never left and after 28 years, as if by a compulsion to repeat, it returns to demonize but also to chase after the enemy of all time. Silvio Berlusconi who returns to center stage. The great communicator, "His Broadcasting", is known to be still unbeatable in the art of sparigliare and only an inexperienced person might think that his centrality goes hand in hand with the numbers of his party, moreover given on the rise, precisely because of the autonomous media, financial and economic value that his history as an entrepreneur represents.
As if to say: in his case, as for Cuccia the shares, the votes are not counted but are weighed. So he always reminded the reporter of some former top managers of his companies. In one fell swoop Berlusconi obscures the small third-party center of Renzi and Calenda, with the latter repeating more piquant than usual, and, in spite of himself, slightly obscures the same primacy that the Brothers of Italy had always won. presidentialism.
Berlusconi responds, therefore, as in a school hypothesis, that yes, the current Head of State should resign, albeit, he specifies, with the direct election by the people "Mattarella himself could be elected". Then, when asked if he could be a candidate himself, the former four-time prime minister glosses over: “Well… let's talk about current things”.
There are very few minutes of conversation, in which, as acknowledged by the constitutionalist Michele Ainis, who is not a Berlusconian, the president of Forza Italia has limited himself to saying "an obviousness" on the path that would result from the approval of the reform. And just to specify from the outset that this is not an attack on President Mattarella, Berlusconi recalls that he has been proposing this reform since 1995, "I said so in a speech to Montecitorio".
All clear? No, there is a hell of a lot of attacks from the left. The Cav specifies that there is no assault on his part on the Colle, no attack on Mattarella and that that of the left "is a campaign of lies and demonization". Which he reiterates today in an interview with the editor of the newspaper , Augusto Minzolini. Enrico Letta, secretary of the Democratic Party, immediately launches the classic anathema: "Dangerous right, Mattarella represents the balance point of national cohesion that is put at risk". The leader of the Democratic Party is suspicious: "This is a self-candidature for the Hill". Then, however, Letta goes to the merits of the question and clearly says that the Democratic Party is against presidentialism: "It would be a serious mistake for the country".
Once the merits of the question have been centered, the object of the dispute is precisely the reform as such. And no suspicions and poisons about Berlusconi's attacks on Mattarella that were not there. This is the ancient deep aversion of the post-communist left and post-DC left to presidentialism as such. That is that "Great Reform", combined with the streamlining of the decision-making processes of our country, which Bettino Craxi launched in 1979, when he already sensed the need for a relaunch of the slow and cumbersome institutional mechanisms to put them in step with an Italy that was profoundly changing.
Need combined with the firm belief of Crax that "the people with the election of the president could find an 'important opportunity to express themselves directly". To the question posed by myself, in the last years of Hammamet, in the book "I conti con Craxi" (MaleEdizioni) on why that "Great Reform" did not go ahead, Craxi replied dryly and bitterly: "But where was I going if the Communists attacked me also with cartoons by Forattini, where I was depicted with fez and boots? ”. In short, a real hate campaign, aimed at labeling even Craxi as a fascist.
History on the left repeats itself and always the same. And Berlusconi, who has always defended the memory of the premier and socialist leader, on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of Craxi's dramatic death in Hammamet, recalled that Forza Italia is also the heir to modernizing reformism, and for this reason anti-communist, Craxi. Craxi, that is the uncovered nerve of the Democratic Party and of the small Calendian-Renzian center. Matteo Salvini himself, leader of the League who in the past opposed Craxi, recognized in an interview with myself for Startmag.it, during the collection of signatures for the referendum on justice with the Radicals, that the socialist statesman "had the courage of reforms ". In addition to the presidential proposal, he evokes others implemented in the economy and for the new State-Church Concordat.
Salvini just to discuss the relaunch of Italy yesterday met with Berlusconi in Sardinia. A meeting favored by the fact that the "captain" was in Olbia for the electoral campaign. The League yesterday presented its program (each center-right party does it in support of the common government program of the coalition) in 200 pages.
Membership in the EU and NATO, presidentialism on the French model, autonomy, the Flat Tax at 15 percent, the launch of nuclear power, the safety decrees, the overcoming of the Fornero law with the 'start of quota 41. And yesterday evening Salvini in a direct Facebook launched the campaign "League, no future without' Credo '".
“I started doing politics at a very young age, believing in values. There is no future without 'creed'. Belief is the engine of everything. Of life, work, sport, study, even love ". This is how the initiative to illuminate the Revenue Agency, Lampedusa, INPS and the Milan station explains. “From today the race towards September 25 starts – adds Salvini – Light on the Revenue Agency, because I 'believe' in a fairer taxation, in fiscal peace, in the Flat Tax. Light on the INPS headquarters, because I believe in decent pensions, in the cancellation of the Fornero law, in Quota 41, in the generational change to offer young people a decent first job. Light on Lampedusa, gateway to Europe, because I believe in border control, in the beauty of Italy, in the need for no citizen to be forgotten or left behind ”. Finally, light on Milan Central Station, because 'Credo' should be a symbol of safety, modernity, speed rather than a meeting place for too many stragglers. I believe in Italy, I believe in Italians ”, he concludes.
The words "Credo" (in white on a blue background and yellow stripe) had already appeared for Italy without party symbols. And yesterday evening Salvini unveiled the "mystery".
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/perche-la-sinistra-strepita-tanto-contro-il-presidenzialismo/ on Sat, 13 Aug 2022 05:39:04 +0000.