The curious case of the Democratic Party, the Party-State that governs and controls the Quirinale without winning an election since 2006
Once again there is a singular fact at the end of this week of Roman follies for the election of the new head of state: the reconfirmation of the outgoing president Mattarella is, once again, the election of a personality with a political history that expresses the world. progressive.
"But how?" you say, "wasn't the Democratic Party the great loser of the 2018 elections?". "How did the Democratic Party manage to reconfirm one of its men at the Quirinale with only 15 percent of the electors at its disposal?" Well, answering these questions is simple, the last few years are the practical demonstration: the left has not won an election since 2006 but, we don't know how, it has ruled almost continuously since 2011 (except for the brief yellow-green parenthesis) and has managed to elect a President of the Republic from its ranks four times in a row.
The habit of governing, of occupying offices and ministries without consensus in the country, has now been tattooed by the Democratic Party, having developed a unique skill and mastery in the management of power. Is all this legitimate? Absolutely yes. Is it decent and desirable? Probably not, but we are certainly not making moralizing or political sermons: if we look at things from their perspective, the Democrats are very well to continue on this path, if there are those who allow them.
In August 2019 it was the current tenant of the Quirinale who lent a hand to the left, when he refused to dissolve the Chambers and gave the green light to a botched Giallorossi majority. In the past week, however, a zombie center-right thought of bringing aid to the progressive parliamentary troops, agreeing to vote for the re-election of Mattarella for the sole pleasure of participating, so as not to seem like the big excluded of the game. Result? The center-right was not only the great loser of this election but he also succeeded in making Letta and the Democratic Party appear as the victors, after the latter had been hibernated for a whole week, showing up only to scream " no ”and proving unable to express even a single credible name to nominate.
Here is how the anomaly is explained: as the center-right is struck by an inferiority complex towards the cultural hegemony of the left, so, in the same way, it seems unable to react in the face of progressive domination in the palaces of power. Evidently, instead of trying to build something similar in his favor (in Parliament and not), the center-right prefers to cry on himself and point the finger at the spite he continually suffers from his opponents …
The singular events of the negotiations for the new head of state therefore offer us two confirmations and two ideas to consider in the future.
The first confirmation is, as anticipated, the unattainable ability of the Democratic Party to move and juggle when it is necessary to occupy positions of power.
The second, also mentioned in the previous lines, is the absolute inability of the center-right to assert itself at the parliamentary level. It seems almost the naivety of a child that the negotiations were conducted with.
The first food for thought that, on the other hand, comes almost natural is the end of the myth of the "most beautiful Constitution in the world". We are at the second consecutive re-election of an outgoing head of state with art. 85 partially circumvented both times (the words of Ciampi also demonstrate this when, at the time, the hypothesis of his reconfirmation was aired). Perhaps with a serious reform of the architecture of the state, we could turn the page and strengthen an ever weaker link between demos and kratos : the French model or the American model, as long as the paradox of governments and majorities unrelated to the vote of the citizens, which has lasted since 2008, when voters awarded Berlusconi for the third time.
Finally, the second and final reflection concerns the sensational risk of a return to proportional representation which is gradually becoming more and more concrete with the fragmentation of the political forces following the re-election of Mattarella. So it would really be the perfect storm to set off on to other years of ircocervo executives and palace games behind the voters. It is hoped (with little probability) that someone in Rome will notice all this …
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