Many of our fellow citizens decide at the last moment to who to vote for, often even while they go to the polling station. The electoral campaign, as usual, does not help to distinguish chatter and false promises from the substance of policies that could truly ensure a better future for our families and for the whole of Europe. We therefore offer a brief vade mecum of orientation.
The EU finds itself facing a crucial passage in its history: either we move forward with integration with the gradual transfer of portions of sovereignty by the various states, or we risk taking big steps backwards and, as warned by the Governor of the Bank of Italy, panetta, of slide towards irrelevance. And not being masters of one's own destiny is not a comfortable and peaceful solution, but it is the road that leads us towards increasingly bitter conflicts.
Remember the lesson of the Normandy landings
The 80th anniversary celebrations of landing in Normandy they should also say something to those born much later. There lesson even stronger it refers to the famous phrase of Winston Churchill after the surrender of France and Great Britain to Hitler's demands at the Munich summit: “You could choose between dishonor and war. You have chosen dishonor, you will have war. “And that is, in the face of Russia's treacherous aggression against Ukraine, the Western world cannot toy with sending aid to Kiev slowly. The real reasoning to be made is not the banal one of pacifists who limit themselves to saying that they prefer peace to war (but who doesn't agree), but that of calculating how many more deaths it has cost the USA, GB and France, having chosen in Munich not to stop Hitler immediately, thus fueling his hunger for conquest and power. And this also applies to Stalin who even made a pact with the Nazis to divide up Poland.
Therefore beyond the chatter and the brawls at the rally, the real stakes are there elections is the future of Europe. A better, more empowered EU is in the true interest of peace and the continuation of the well-being (with all its imperfections) that we have enjoyed in recent decades.
First of all, we must consider that the two coalitions of the right and the left are not at all homogeneous. To the right Salvini moves more and more to extreme positions, forcing the Melons to attenuate his moderate, Atlanticist and pro-European turn, so as not to lose a portion of his electorate who could be blinded by the caricature of the strong man represented by Gen. Vannacci. Who casually makes extravagant statements such as that Putin is no worse than Stalin and that therefore, as we dealt with the head of the USSR, we can deal with the current dictator of Moscow without paying too much attention to the fact that he is a satrap bloodthirsty who kills opponents (see Navalny) or journalists and prevents any expression of dissent. Evidently many consider the freedom given to us by the American boys who landed in Normandy to be irrelevant.
Don't believe the fraudulent demagogy of Salvini and Vannacci
So you absolutely must don't vote for Salvini to try to free Meloni from a thug who pushes towards one sovereignist right. After all, the League's slogan is: "More Italy, less Europe". According to Salvini, and that fake economist Borghi, so we can do as we please and continue to distribute bonuses and pensions. It is an illusion, so much so that Salvini himself, once he came to government, was unable to keep his promises. Even stronger thedeception it is about peace which unfortunately cannot be achieved with the surrender of Ukraine as the history of the last century teaches. But perhaps Salvini and Vannacci didn't have time to study it.
But also the Melons it skids quite a bit. The manifesto of the group of European conservatives is against majority voting in the community, against the common army, against a gradual unification of finances. We complain about European shortcomings but paradoxically these are greatest in all matters in which states have not ceded their sovereignty to Brussels such as immigration or healthcare or industrial policy. The single market must be completed and not boycotted, with regulations common to all countries, perhaps bureaucratic, but indispensable, and with the unification of the banking and capital markets. But Meloni seems prey to the call of the wild, the anti-MES battle or maybe when he was saying that he wanted to leave the Euro.
Rift on the left between 5 Star and Pd
But also on the left confusion is no exception: among 5 Stars e Pd there is no wide field, only competition. Tale he put the word "Peace" in the symbol as if this could be achieved by no longer sending weapons to Ukraine. In that case, as Putin says, the issue would be resolved in two or three months! Conte is that gentleman who with the Superbonus was making the entire country go bankrupt to benefit a few privileged people from the upper middle classes.
La Schlein for his part he made quite a bit of confusion in compiling the lists so much so that it is not clear what position he will want to take in Europe and towards the Russo-Ukrainian war. His candidate, tarquinius (former director of Avvenire) said that NATO should be dissolved to redo a new pact with the USA on an equal footing. But this means that Europe, which until now has cowered behind US military power, will have to equip itself with a much stronger and more modern army and therefore European citizens will have to spend much more on defense than we have spent in recent decades. But did the voters understand this? In short, the Democratic Party risks emerging from these elections having torn to pieces its reformist component, which could perhaps land somewhere else.
The need for a true reformist center must come from the voters
And this part would be a reformist and progressive center, certainly pro-European enough to sponsor Mario Draghi as president of the Commission. It's a shame that the various souls of this center are unable to find the way to a common political proposal that could interest the many voters who, fed up with the inconclusive demagogy of the major parties, take refuge in not voting. If we want to be optimistic, the division of the center into at least three parties could offer voters the opportunity to grasp the different nuances and therefore vote for the center that seems to best respond to their beliefs. But in these elections it is not so much internal politics or our government that is at stake, even if Meloni, wrongly, sought to strengthen his leadership by trying to broaden his electorate. It is not necessary because to strengthen the government it would be enough to penalize Salvini.
What is really needed is for Italians to give a clear signal on the role they want to play in Europe and in the world. And this can only be achieved by penalizing the Lega and 5 Stars and by strengthening the so-called center formations, that is, by voting Tajani, calenda, or Bonino-Renzi. Let's go and vote and let's not make sterile protests, but let's aim for one greater European cohesion!
