On presidentialism, the premiership and autonomy, the opposition denies itself
Christmas at the Cupiello house is a comedy of compelling relevance. The protagonist, Eduardo De Filipposets up the nativity scene. Then he asks his son: “Do you like this nativity scene?”. And he said: “No, I don’t like it.” And why? “Why not”. For ringworm, for a spirit of contradiction. Now, let’s change the protagonists of this famous comedy. And tell me if it’s not the same plot of the theater we’ve been witnessing since the beginning of the current legislature.
The nativity scene is the constitutional reforms. Electoral reform has now been added to these. Eduardo is represented by centre-right. While the son is interpreted as best as it could not be from wide fieldwhich narrows or widens depending on the moods and discontents of its protagonists and supporting characters. With a significant difference.
The game of roles on the nativity scene of reforms
Eduardo, after all, makes the nativity scene himself. While the centre-right nativity scenes are imported goods. He borrows them from the centre-left. But he continues to say no and then no because this time the centre-right is proposing the nativity scenes. Theater of the absurd stuff. From Ionesco. But this goes beyond the convent and we have to come to terms with it.
So let’s recap. As a first option Brothers of Italy puts presidentialism on the table. Given the poor parade, he falls back on the premiership. But the premiership is not his own making. No, it was invented by Pds during the work of the bicameral commission for constitutional reforms chaired by Massimo D’Alema. The speaker on the form of government, the excellent Cesare Salvifor the series let all who can be saved, contrasts a top-notch premiership, sponsored by D’Alema and his loved ones, and a direct popular election of the head of state but with an unchanged Constitution, favored by the centre-right.
The latter prevails thanks to the vulpine cunning of Pinuccio Tatarella who comes to an agreement with Roberto Maroni. But what the left once liked is no longer good. And their powers are demonized, overlooking the fact that the premiership already exists and is best interpreted by Giorgia Meloni.
Differentiated autonomy and its roots in Title V
Even differentiated regional autonomy does not have the merit of originality. When the 13th legislature was coming to an end, in solitude and with a few narrow votes, the left approved the reform of the Title V of the second part of the Constitution, which has turned the relations between the State and the Regions inside out and given the Constitutional Court.
In 2001 the Prime Minister was Giuliano Amatobut it was above all Francesco Rutelli to plead the case. Candidate of the centre-left, he hoped to steal votes from the League. But to no avail. Now the left gets in the way and seems to echo the joke of Pietro Nenni: «They want to reduce Italy to pills».
Justice and electoral system put to the test of history
The music does not change with the justice reform and in particular with the separation of careers between prosecutors and judges. The reform of the Criminal Procedure Code of 1988 is signed by Giuliano Vassalli. A hero of the Resistance. And the paragraph ofarticle 111 of the Constitution, reformed eleven years later under the first government led by Massimo D’Alema, sounds like this: «Every trial takes place in cross-examination between the parties, in equal conditions, before a third and impartial judge».
The center-right intended to implement the constitutional provision, while the center-left intervened in defense of the Constitution praised as the most beautiful in the world. And in the referendum he won the battle of words. Perhaps because there is nothing more new than printed paper.
Last but not least, the electoral reform of the centre-right. The centre-left also objects to the mandatory indication of the name of the prime minister candidate when submitting the certificate and programme. Of course, it will be a problem for the wide field. But thesis number 1 of the programOlive of 1996 even included the indication of the name on the card. For the use and consumption of Romano Prodi.
How right he was Leo Longanesi: whoever signs his name is lost.
