From Togliatti’s “fraud law” to Schlein’s accusations on 3 euro diesel: comparison with the past and the contradictions of the left on electoral law, excise duties and the Green Deal
The Chamber has given the green light to the new electoral law, a system that provides a majority bonus for anyone who reaches 42 percent of the votes. A mechanism which, according to the centre-right, should ensure stability for future governments, and for this reason it was called Stabilicum.
The left, faced with majority approval and confidence boosts, as has almost always happened in the past, even when the Rosatellum and Italicum wanted by the progressives were voted on, reacted by raising signs with the words “Scam law” and “With Meloni diesel for 3 euros”. Slogans that certainly cannot be classified among the most effective ones, equipped with strong arguments and polemical references.
Palmiro Togliatti was still alive when, in March 1953, the PCI accused Alcide De Gasperi of having made Parliament vote on a fraudulent law. Like Meloni, even then the head of government was concerned with guaranteeing the executive a stable majority, which would allow it to lead the country without being subject to the blackmail of minorities. But for communists and socialists to allow those who had won the elections to operate, removing them from the pressure of the parties, was, in fact, a scam and so they did everything to scuttle the new electoral law.
It is thanks to that battle, conducted by the left without skimping on polemical arguments, that we have had seaside governments, those of the president, those of national solidarity, large and small agreements, or rather the whole range of the worst party politics.
Obviously the majority bonus to allow those who have reached a certain number of consensuses is not a scam at all, but a fair counterweight to guarantee the stability of an executive. Proof of this is that the left itself, when it launched the Italicum – also, as mentioned, with the help of majority and confidence – inserted a majority bonus. Of course, at the time Matteo Renzi was in government and not Giorgia Meloni and the former is a magician in story telling, even if by now Italians, who have verified many of his promises, starting with the tax reform and ending with that of justice, know him more as an expert in story balling. Some time has passed since then and Renzi is no longer at the helm of the Democratic Party, but it is clear that his teachings remain and therefore there are those who continue to spout lies, telling voters that the new system is a scam.
However, there is not only a lack of imagination in reviving a definition pioneered by Togliatti, there is also the improper, not to say false, use of the increase in fuel prices. “With Meloni diesel for 3 euros” was shown yesterday in the Chamber by a sign held by Elly Schlein. It’s a shame that the secretary didn’t say that the latest increases in excise duties on petrol and diesel bear the mark of governments led by members of the Democratic Party or also supported by the votes of the Democratic Party. In Italy, filling up is expensive because since the war in Ethiopia the state has always made money from fuel for motor vehicles. In 2013 it was Enrico Letta who financed the so-called Doing decree, but first the “technical” government of Mario Monti took care of it, wanted by Giorgio Napolitano and also supported by the left.
Therefore, if diesel fuel today reached 2.3 euros (not the 3 that Elly Schlein says) let’s say that the Democratic Party has made a contribution.
Also because it is thanks to the left, and to the Green deal wanted by the comrades and Brussels, that a third of the refineries in Europe have been closed (six in Italy alone), with consequent fuel shortages and an inevitable increase in prices.
Wars have their weight, but, as experts explain, establishing that in 2035 Europe will say goodbye to engines powered by fossil fuels can only produce a reduction in investments in the sector and therefore the obvious contraction of supplies. I don’t think I need to explain that, due to the law of economics, if something is missing, and yet demand continues to increase, the price will inevitably rise too. It is a law that they explain not in the first year of university, but in the first year of accounting, but perhaps in the Democratic Party they are all philosophers and do not know the rules of the market.
Having said that, I could continue with other lies that are being circulated these days, regarding houses, salaries and the economic situation in Italy. However, I am convinced that between now and the elections, presumably called for the first time in the history of the Republic to coincide with the regular expiration of the legislature, we will have the opportunity to talk about it again. Because in the coming months the left will invent many more.
