Under the first aspect, what Napolitano has clarified with the utmost rigor is the question of popular sovereignty evoked inappropriately by many in the PDL to argue that Berlusconi's conviction offends 10 million voters. In a modern democracy the judges are third parties compared to the other powers and it cannot be argued that the conviction of a political exponent cancels the vote of many voters. Those voters, Napolitano says, may be temporarily represented by a different top or by a committee. In short, in no case is a sentence in conflict with the free expression of the popular vote.
As for the Government, it is true that it would be absurd to bring it down after three months, but it is also true that in order to secure international recovery, the Government should decide to launch a series of incisive reforms overcoming the vetoes of the parties that support it and that so far they only allowed some decisions to be postponed. Above all, these parties seem to converge, as can be seen from the parliamentary work, on only one point: to increase public spending and therefore fiercely oppose any attempt to make a policy of cuts and even more of divestments of both real estate and movable public assets.
Local authorities then defend the companies they own even if, as the Court of Auditors has shown, they are the main cause of the increase in the budget deficit of the entities themselves. In short, politicians defend not only their salaries but their power to distribute seats or jobs to their customers. Now it is clear that if the Letta government does not find the strength to attack the bastion of public spending, taxes will not be able to be significantly reduced, starting with those on work and on businesses, stimulating that recovery of competitiveness which is needed to bring about international recovery. Instead, Letta got nailed by Berlusconi on the IMU issue, which certainly has its importance more from a political-propaganda profile than from a strictly economic one, and he didn't know how or didn't want to raise the ball by proposing drastic cuts in public spending and reducing the burden of corporations that block competition and thus keep certain prices for goods and services abnormally high.
President Napolitano has great merits in this phase. The 5 Star allegations are ridiculous. But at this point, in addition to defending the existence of the Government, you should also more clearly indicate the basic provisions that, in your opinion, the country expects to finally emerge from a recession that has been so long and so deep in Italy due to of the very serious political errors committed by the Berlusconi governments added to the doctrinal rigidities of the political and trade union left.
