Elections, my brother is not going to vote because he is out of office. But nobody gives a shit anyway

I get nervous. Sunday at referendum my brother would like to say Yes, mark No, scribble the card, in short, exercise overwhelmingly right to vote. But no, it cannot: it is Off site. It is true for him, it is true for me, as it is for thousands and thousands of students, workers, professionals who are dispersed between cities and regions that are not his.

Whenever it is necessary to elect a government or change the Constitution, making decisions that will shape the future of the country, Italians are so visionary as to knowingly exclude a large part of those who will first suffer the consequences of those elections. A paradox that will be even more odious in the next referendum: cutting the parliamentarians to adjust the number to the rest of the European democracies, they say.

We want to resemble civilized Europe, of course. Too bad that in Germany, France, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, to name a few, the Off site vote. It can be done online, it can be done by delegation, it can be done with ad hoc offices in municipalities other than yours, it can be done by correspondence.

So what for correspondence It can also be done in Italy, but only if you live abroad. Here those who do not pay taxes have more right to influence the luck of the country than those who live there. Here the South, a land of emigration, has, in fact, and regularly, less right to say.

Deliberately denying voting rights to non-residents is a disgrace incentive to abstention, which in times of Covid also becomes an unfortunate stimulus for mass migrations between regions. But are we crazy ?! And there are two other things that make me angry. The first is that she could have written these same words on the eve of each vote, the same but still valid: it means that the matter does not matter and nobody ever gave a c …

The second is “blindness”: how can one not see that votes are lost in each vote and worse still? young voters? Why should children approach public affairs if they don’t give a damn about them? Italy dies of old age.