The curious vision of the world and of democracy of the Democratic Party in Europe: from the “Cordon sanitaire” to INGE
The world is a curious place, and even more curious is the European Parliament, where those who call themselves "Democrats" exercise this method of government with the brutal exclusion of their opponents from exercising the minimal control and minority powers foreseen in every democracy MP.
As this verbal clash between Rinaldi and Benifei underlines, the PD, part of the S&D group, has imposed in parliament the exclusion from all positions, including those of control and administration, of the ID group, which includes non-secondary parties such as the Lega and Rassemblement National, through the convenient subterfuge of the "Cordon sanitaire", i.e. a system whereby the seats due, proportionately, to this force in Parliament were assigned to the others.
This exercise in authoritarianism had two effects:
- we have a party in the majority, and with significant weight, in a nation state which is excluded from European democracy, as is the case for the party that leads the opposition in France;
- with Qatargate, political responsibilities fall even more on those who wanted to exclude the others;
However, let's continue the political discourse, it must be said that the problem of external political interference in the European institutions had been in the center of Brussels' attention for some time, so much so that in 2020 a special commission, INGE, was created, the Commission for the study of foreign interference in processes European politicians, including through disinformation. A Commission strongly desired by the socialists of the S&D and of which the Hon. Maiorino.
The Commission has produced a substantial document which lists the dangers of interference. The document mentions:
- Russia 60 times, accused of being an "Authoritarian Regime";
- China 40 times;
- Qatar 2 times, without any specific observation (obviously an absolute monarchy is not an authoritarian regime)
- Morocco only once, and only for Pegasus spyware usage, along with other countries.
So the commission strongly desired to study foreign interference has produced a document which, in the light of what is currently happening with Qatargate and the involvement of the Moroccan secret services, seems completely cross-eyed. Yet this commission was supposed to be the flagship of democracy according to the left, and indeed it is, a partisan democracy, is unbalanced, unjust, and therefore ultimately undemocratic.
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