Contrary to what has been repeated in Italy for years, on the evening of the vote – last Sunday – it was not known in France either who would govern. Unfortunately, it is likely that President Joe Biden will also have his troubles in the United States in November after the midterm vote. These are two pieces of bad news for the democratic West, which correspond to the declared goal of Vladimir Putin, the true leader of the populist and sovereign international.
Leaving aside the ideological babble to fool the fools, the Kremlin leader’s only aim is to destabilize our societies, as shown by the fact that in Spain, for example, he has supported both the Catalan separatists (and some idiots) at the same time we consider “left”) the same as the post-nationalists or neo-francoists of Vox, who have garnered votes campaigning against the threat of independence.
In short, the pseudo-ideological or pseudo-geopolitical embellishment to be found after 89 is just a scam, a masquerade, a smokescreen designed to keep Europe’s right-wing nationalists under the command of a foreign nation and left-wing extremists on duty the main promoter of fascism in the world, from which he claims and practices all the basic principles, from imperialism to racism, from homophobia to militarism. To verify this, it is enough to read and listen to the official speeches of Putin and his propagandists, that is, turn on the TV (unfortunately, not only in Russia, but also in Italy).
The pincers, represented by the affirmation of Marine Le Pen on the one hand and Jean-Luc Mélenchon on the other, the yellow-green vests risking blowing up the European Union, seems to fulfill Putin’s desire for the earthquake that should bring Europe . On a wave of radicalism and in the perspective of a change of elite”. After all, Italian bipopulism, temporarily marginalized during the legislature by an extreme use of all means of parliamentarism, is also the result of this sowing.
Of course too. In Italy at least, many have sowed alone, without being worshiped by Putin or anyone else. This is not the time to repeat the list in which newspapers and talk shows obviously have pride of place. If we want to prevent the whole of Europe from sinking into a perfect biputinism between Separatists and Francoists in Spain, Lepenists and Melenchonists in France, Leaguers and Grillini in Italy, we must act immediately. In Paris, for example, the introduction of “la proportionnelle” has been under discussion for some time. We should do the same here.
In addition to the obvious reasons for protecting liberal democracy, the national and European interest and autonomy, we think there could be two more.
The first involuntarily underlines the Senator of the Democratic Party Stefano Ceccanti, one of the most ardent supporters of the majority and of the French model, who declared far and wide yesterday that in reality almost nothing is changing in France. And do you know why? Because in France, according to Senator Ceccanti, there are a number of constitutional counterweights that would make the system secure. It is unfortunate that in Italy the constitutional balances are seriously jeopardized precisely by the reduction in the number of parliamentarians for which the Democratic Party, headed by Ceccanti, recently decided (after having voted against it three times, before the change of government and Alliances, from Graf I to Graf II).
The second reason for the support of proportionality in Italy was underlined a few days ago by Giuseppe Conte himself on the stage of the “Republic of Ideas”, declaring that he is in favor of proportionality because, I report verbatim, “with the reduction the number of parliaments, we will have a serious problem with the new parliament, that is, we have much larger, much larger constituencies: if we go with a majority, we have a serious problem of representativeness, of effective representativeness ».
Summary for the most distracted: Conte says if we don’t change the electoral law by introducing a real ratio, we risk “a serious representativeness problem” caused by the parliamentarian cuts promoted by Conte himself and opposed by many others, including this newspaper, with all the above arguments, starting with the question of representativeness.
However, the main argument in favor of proportionality remains the urgency to save Italian democracy from these types of politicians, capable of presenting diametrically opposed and even contradictory positions and arguments at the same time. It is good to know that on voting evening in Italy, whoever wins, the constitutional foundations of the rule of law, the balance of checks and balances to ensure the democratic system and the country’s international position on such issues will not be available.