- from Italy in the Age of the July 7, 2010 -
Today, no one, not even the main protagonists of the story, knows how it will exit the current crisis of the PDL. There are several options out there and which of these will ultimately be pursued depends on the moves and counter moves by the various actors involved.
However, a responsible way to address this difficult and chaotic is to ask, as well as on shorter-term goals, including the prospects for long-term impact on the functioning of our political system that some decisions rather than others may produce. By Finian area, from the Speaker of the House overrides the desire to continue to stay inside, if not the PDL (and this is the first choice of Gianfranco Fini), however the center.
course, will depend largely on how well the decisions to be taken by Berlusconi and the influence on him that the hawks will not wait to get rid of Fini and Finian. So it also evokes the possibility of setting up a third force or third pole. But the third force or third prong are not the same thing, and it is necessary to clarify in this regard.
The third prong is that at which the nostalgic look of the First Republic. In the words of Follini it would "Real alternative, systemic," in which Fini gather to walk the same road Rutelli and Casino and the Democratic Party should stop "playing the tired litany of bipolarity." The third prong is the one that Rutelli, in an interview with Corriere, seen as a way out to the "failure of the bipolar system," where should "bring together the forces in a position to resume growth."
The "litany bipolar, however, is to continue to play all the major Western democracies and that really helps make governments accountable before the voters, who maintain power through the vote, to choose who will govern them and , always through the ballot box, not to confirm those who have disappointed, if there is a more promising.
The alternative is based on three poles, which we Italians know well, who knew the French who eventually gave the power to de Gaulle to exit from the quagmire of the Fourth Republic, who knew the Germans who witnessed the tragic collapse of the Weimar presupposes, however, a completely different way of doing politics. Requires a shift of the right to choose their governments by voters at the oligarchies of the party and weaken the relationship of delegation and accountability between the first and second.
Today, who has been connected to this concept of politics and the democratic game and, above all, wants to - through his recovery - returning to play a decisive political role, look with hope to Fini. He, however, there seems to have neither the intention to satisfy these expectations, nor convenience to drown their leadership skills in an neocentrista, based on agreements between pieces of political establishment and which would result in great disappointment that part of public opinion that sees him as potential innovator.
Another thing is talk of a third force. This could be an imperative in the face of a clear lack of Berlusconi and the leaders of the PDL to review not only some passages of government policy, but also the internal structure of the party. A third force federated or separated from the PDL. What challenges would face such a hypothetical training will depend, of course, the duration of the legislature, by necessity or otherwise of having to face new elections.
But even if the rupture of the PDL would be inevitable at some point and this subject should arise, it is vital not to lose sight of the horizon systems, the bipolar structure of our political system, which - with all its faults - is the most important purchase of these troubled and countless years of transition.
policy, we know, has its own logic, but politics is also hope and vision of the future and can not be caged only in the short term. And politics, as he wrote some years ago, Sarkozy, may also be able to invent the future, to propose a future and make it concrete. Whatever form this will take composite reality that today is recognized in Fini, made up of people who have not given up on wanting the dream of a great Liberal Party and the people, to live up to expectations and requests for renewal must come from the country bet on the politics of modernity and its potential.
Therefore, we should turn first to the public, citizens and, if necessary, to the voters, proposing a real hope for the future, defying those who have betrayed this hope, who will then follow. Chasing small pieces of political establishment would be only a stopgap without perspective, and who has worked in recent years to a different right deserves better. Italy deserves better.
Sofia Ventura - Born in Casalecchio in 1964, Associate Professor at the University of Bologna, where he teaches Political Science and Comparative Federal Systems. A scholar of political systems in a comparative, has dedicated his latest research to issues of federalism, the political institutions of the Fifth French Republic, the political leadership and communication.
CREDITS: Freedom
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