The House vote on the request to raid the offices of Silvio Berlusconi brings me to Ruby on the case, increasingly, to recognize a close relationship between the parliamentary work and our electoral system. Of reasons there will have been well, but the motivation of this act (the President of the Council, with its call to the police headquarters in Milan, he performed an institutional function, as it found that the girl was the niece of the President of Egypt) seems to me very imaginative and also detrimental to the dignity of those who, like myself, think that parliament must sit in "the best".
The vote of 315 deputies who feel real a similar argument (on which the irony beyond the borders of the Alps) is thinking about how strong the bond that links to our blocked list, and who writes the list rather than the party, his programs even before the public / voters.
n.270/2005 That the law was not, to put it to fashion, a good practice of institutional engineering has recognized his father, the minister Calderoli, defining such a crap way to Giovanni Sartori coniarne of the worthy name, porcellum. We can not continue to support the goodness of such an electoral system only because his alter ego, the system that reintroduces the preferences (or single-member constituency) would promote the exchange rate. We have the courage to say clearly that when 'a similar risk was real, to the point where we run it would be worthwhile.
Better things are not the civilized (if only for having abolished, before the others, the death penalty since 1786) Tuscany, where, not long ago, at a stroke were introduced to the blocked list (diluted internal party primary by non-compulsory), the increase in the number of Regional Councillors (to the point that even the assembly room struggling to accommodate all of them) and, so as not to miss anything, even a regional list system that where "a little 'more' than others.
At a time like we are living, in which public confidence in the institutions is at an historic low (in relation Eurispes 2011 Italian institutions and 68% of respondents say that their trust in institutions has declined only 2.2% said the opposite, including the establishment figures, only the Head of State Napolitano has increased its rate of 7% to 68%, while 84% of respondents claimed to have little or no confidence in the government) would have a duty to go back on decisions that have contributed significantly to the disaffected citizens to la politica e le istituzioni. Il primo e naturale passo sarebbe quello di porre nuovamente i ‘cives’ al centro delle scelte politiche, rendendoli attori protagonisti del processo democratico. In che modo? Forse già a partire da atti concreti che vengono dal basso e da quelle assemblee dove ancora è forte il rapporto tra elettori ed eletti, dove questi ultimi siano effettivamente tali e non nominati. E poi attraverso azioni che impegnino i Consigli e le Giunte Comunali nella richiesta agli organi deputati di atti in questa direzione.
Un raggio di sole in una giornata uggiosa : Irene, 6 anni, mentre scrive l’indirizzo in un quaderno di scuola vedendo il nome della sua strada mi chiede: babbo chi era Alcide De Gasperi? Beh non so se sarò stato chiaro, ma un minuto ce l’ho speso volentieri tanto per farle capire che forse non tutti sono uguali e che oltre a quello che la TV ci racconta in questi giorni, per fortuna , c ’è stata un’altra storia!
Paolo B.
