Dpcm metamorphosis – Libero Quotidiano

Some might think that, after all, it doesn’t change much, because what matters is what the government does, not “how” it does it. But it changes a lot, because the government works with inadequate tools to do exactly what otherwise, respecting the law, could not be done. That is why they have once again decided to intervene in the management of the epidemic without using the appropriate tool, that is, decree-law: this that the government and its boss do not like because it is subject to some form of parliamentary control. And that’s why even in adopting another Dpcm, which by itself is offensive enough to our constitutional order, Giuseppe Conte he persevered in his elusive behavior and actually perfected it.

With this last provision, in fact, we have gone from an open and blatant violation of the law to pretending to respect it, which is even worse. Because this time the President of the Council went to Parliament earlier than after the fact, but it was there to articulate one of his usual prayers of complacency, not to fully illustrate the content of the measures to be taken. The law says that the strict requirements that the government has been imposing on the country for months are no longer admissible without the Prime Minister having previously brought the content to the attention of Parliament – nor obviously without his taking the conclusions into account. That the Chambers eventually act in this sense, unless they believe that the norm implies the power of the head of government to limit himself to informing Parliament and then not caring what he objects and responds to.

Well, the other day Giuseppe Conte made a totally generic and very partial illustration of the hasty measures then in the decree published on the morning of November 4. On the very urgent issues of selecting risk areas; on the criteria to identify them and regulate their life; on the data that would have made those choices of territorial discrimination inevitable; on the possibility of closing entire urban areas exposed to the risk of population agglomeration (a kind of curfew in the curfew left to the whim, nobody knows by whom); on the subcontracting of full powers to the Minister of Health transformed into a caudillo who makes good and bad weather without answering to anyone; On all this and much more, the Prime Minister has anticipated little or nothing, and the new sum of prohibitions and prescriptions has blossomed in the latest personal decree of the head of government without the Chambers being in a position to evaluate its effective scope.

And this, once again, was carried out as a seal of the preventive recitation of announcements, press conferences and circulating drafts that replaced the due institutional confrontation. All this – icing on the cake – with the incredible declaration of the Prime Minister who communicated his “readiness” to accept the parliamentary declarations, as if they were a graceful concession rather than a specific legal duty. To show that there can be something worse than depriving Parliament: and that is making fun of its role by making exhibitions in its honor. The damage this shameful ruling class is doing to the country is incalculable: and even when, we hope soon, we will find a remedy for the virus, curing the infection will expose a hopelessly bare civilian fiber and reveal the disfigured face of our democracy.