Italy needs a law-abiding political party, reformist, liberal But now it really works for the new right
Alessandro Campi from the Reform of February 16, 2011
politics with the wind, with newspapers and television stations that revived all your sigh, with the whole world watching you and asks you about your next move, are all good. The hard part comes when those involved in the day before you turn your back suddenly, as disillusioned by your behavior or because they believe that happy season is over and you do not have anything to say and write. Three months ago
Gianfranco Fini was considered, although not of the highest pile, the homo novus policy Italian, for the courageous and innovative that he had made at the time, the manner of the statesman with whom intervened in public debate and the determination with which he launched his challenge to Berlusconi. Appreciation against him abounded.
Today, at best, it is considered a supporting actor Casini, the leader of a minority faction and quarrelsome, a politician without a clear strategy and without ideas worth discussing, which fell to survive the chase and left the watchwords dell'antiberlusconismo most vulgar. On his future, no one would bet a penny more.
crisis - political and image - Fini had begun that fateful December 14, the day the vote of confidence in government. It could be a historic victory, ended in half disaster, caused - according to many observers - the undervaluation of the real strength of the Knight and the unnecessarily aggressive and arrogant tone with which we are prepared to that appointment.
Dispose of the wood in the following weeks, the recovery could be represented at the congress of February 12 to 13 by appointment, which was the official birth of his new party. But this opportunity has been largely lost. Was certainly unfortunate contingency policy, dominated by Berlusconi's judicial affairs and the crisis in Arab world, which helped to push the secondary event in Milan in the news. But the masterpiece
media have done, to work completed, the protagonists themselves. After the uncertainties of the vigil, which is dominated by pronounced politically wavering of the principal exponents of Fli, interventions by the constituent assembly had emerged, albeit with difficulty, and finally an official stance clear: no strategic agreements with the left or winks all'antiberlusconismo militant but a solid anchor to the moderation European Reform. We are not the right that is reborn from its ashes and claim the pride of their roots - Fini said for the umpteenth time. We are the center- the future, a movement-party post-ideological, open and inclusive, exactly what had to be and the PDL was not. We're small, he added, but we can grow in the consensus, after having properly structured, will break out when the internal contradictions in the world and Berlusconi will become all the clearer sense of our political proposal.
Well, time to turn the spotlight to see the effect that such speeches could have on public opinion and among the observers, and among the elders of the newborn Fli - the party of change and youth, the sense of State and calm - is a public and unseemly uproar broke out on assignments provided organization chart, up to threaten those who resign and even the possibility of a split. With the good result to zero in real time the little 'policy that the appointment of curiosity aroused.
Mass so it would seem the end of an adventure, it seems the story of a party born and soon died in spasms. But as mentioned the qualities of a politician (and a leadership team) are judged at times stormy. I consent to the Fli after quest'esordio unhappy after illusory enthusiasm of recent months are the strongest, but just this hard reality should push Fini to ponder on the mistakes of the past and to finally do it seriously, knowing that good ideas, if cultivated properly, can also win in politics.
Paradoxical as it may seem, the intervention of Fini in Milan - with the exception of the tortuous passage and unhappy about his resignation as President of the Chamber, the subject of a political exchange objectively inadmissible Berlusconi - was more meaningful than, over-excited and a bit adventurous, held in Bastia Umbra.
This time even better explained what the "new right" that he would like to build in Italy and that Italy, the Berlusconi-doped Lega, would require: law-abiding, reformist, liberal, anchored in the history without nostalgia, meritocratic and dialogue, patriotic and constitutional. He explained that the future (that inspires, as well as freedom, the name of his party) is not a rhetorical device, but the necessary political horizon, which declined in Italian with easy management of the existing. He hit hard on Berlusconi, but do not insult him personally. He reiterated his preference for the bipolar system, with lots of greetings to the Third Pole. He appealed to young people as genuine hope of change for this unfortunate country. He invoked the spirit of unity against the divisions that now cross the Italian society.
has shown a path of short term, the exact opposite of small maneuvers in the corridor which had been lost in recent weeks. One way - hard and tiring, all uphill - which is now the only thing that remains. Men who have with them, as seen in these hours are not all equal to this challenge and this commitment: if they lose someone, now that the numbers in Parliament no longer needed, it will be even good. But the question is whether he was the first, often described as fickle and lazy, bring himself to cross the desert and work hard towards a goal politically exciting but uncertain outcome.
who founded the party sooner or later must take the lead live if he does not want the bangs in his hands. Gave it a suggestive name and an identity rule, now serves him a joint in the area, a motivated management team and, if possible not imbolsito by decades of political activism, a structure of government genuinely pluralistic and democratic and, finally, an action program for more concrete and explicit, especially in the economic sphere.
Sooner or later the world sfascerà Berlusconi, the electorate will return to moderate free and available will create a new balance and new combinations. The chances of future Fini, who at the moment seems not to have any, will depend on its ability to become, at that precise moment, a politically credible interlocutor with the left behind a solid and full of ideas. At the moment sounds like science fiction, but who knows. Politics is a strange beast: you're a broken man today, tomorrow you are to govern a country.
