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Franco Bechis
When in July there was a controversy about the government’s intention to extend the state of emergency as it was then until October 15, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte explained that he did not want to restrict the spaces of democracy and the role of the Parliament that represents it. . In fact, he said: “The extension of the state of emergency does not affect the power of the Prime Minister to issue decrees. In fact, it is a necessary, but not sufficient, precondition. We need a source of primary rank, which is a decree law, which provides for the participation of the Council of Ministers and then Parliament. The decree law was there and was approved by Conte’s ministers.
Then the text came to Parliament. Twelve deputies began to discuss it on Monday, and on Tuesday the government, through the Minister of Relations with Parliament Federico D’Incà, raised the issue of trust in the entire text, which therefore will be taken or left without a single a glimpse of the autonomy of Parliament. Yes, in theory that trust can also be denied. But we are men of the world: with that vote Conte asks hundreds of majority deputies and not only if they prefer to go ahead and take their allowance and reimbursement of expenses that are worth slightly less than 15 thousand euros per month or if they prefer to go back to work that almost all do not they had it before they were elected. Because it is clear to everyone that if a government falls like this, another cannot be created and Sergio Mattarella would also be forced to dissolve the legislature early.
So it was a play from other times, a pure propaganda parody to which this Prime Minister is accustomed, who is a born actor although, unfortunately, in the scripts he diligently learns that there is never a grain of truth, not even by mistake. Parliament does not count for anything, Conte has become used in recent months to reign more than to govern, and yesterday’s parody is not a bitter testimony.
Actually, the prime minister could have added a few more acts to the comedy, also to make his democratic vocation (which is pure fiction) a bit more credible. Except that in the exercise of his superpowers he had loosened his hand a little, and in that decree law on the state of emergency in Covid he had inserted a very appropriate rule for his superpowers but very alien to that matter. A codicil that allowed him to extend the appointments of the heads of the secret services with whom he was in tune for another four years for the emergency (it is he who guides them). Of course, very valuable people who would do their job well for years. But that “prorogatio”, to mock even any successor who had not had the freedom to choose the most reliable men for such delicate tasks, was too much. Even within the majority group that supports the government, those M5s who have forgotten their origins, their beliefs and their flags so much giving in to realpolitik, but from time to time they have a shake of dignity and remember them.
Thus, a very tenacious like the young Calabrian Federica Dieni, who sits in the Copasir and handles the matter, did not want to adapt to Conte’s comforts. She presented a nice suppressive amendment to that passage of the Covid decree and found 50 other like-minded people ready to add her signature. The issue has become big, according to rumors of the parliamentarians behind that election there was even the chancellor, Luigi Di Maio, who denied it indignantly in a statement. Now I am convinced that if Di Maio were free he would not stumble but much more with that Count by whom he was betrayed to the point of having to resign from the leadership of the political movement in which he was born. But he is not foolish enough to take such a sensational misstep, from which he would suffer far worse consequences. Conte’s legislative arrogance simply did not lower even the majority of his majority. And being a true democrat, he solved the question in a very simple way: he took their voice away. Amen. While he was there, he thought about doing it on another text that had to be examined by Parliament: the simplifications decree. There, too, the confidence: either they do what he wants even between meals, or everyone at home without the 15 thousand euros a month. It cannot be said that Conte does not know how to defend his power tooth and nail, but it is also the fault of the weakness of others.
Here, these parodies must be remembered when discussing the upcoming referendum on cutting parliamentarians as if it were a decisive issue for our political system. No, it’s not. The elected do not count a fig and at most represent the leader who gave him that chair. Its role is null. Ten, one hundred, one thousand make no difference, nor does their presence increase or decrease the pace of democracy. That is not there, and in the kingdom we have become only those who wear the crown on their head are valid.
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