We will soon see if the mountain will give birth to the little mouse and if the bill Box yourself di constitutional reform will finally see the light to begin its long parliamentary process and most likely culminate in a popular referendum if there is no qualified majority in the Chambers. There will be time and opportunity to evaluate the reform, not only for how it is at the outset but for how it will arrive at final approval. However, two aspects should not be forgotten: 1) during the First World War the President of the French Council Georges Clemenceau he said that “war is too serious a thing to leave to the generals”. The same concept should be applied to costitutionalism who can elaborate the most refined interpretations of the Constitution but often do not take into account politics which, in its highest form, is based by definition on the mediation of different points of view and therefore on the search for consensus, without which even projects the most fascinating remain a dead letter; 2) despite being one of the most beautiful in the world, ours Constitution is more than 75 years old and the idea of updating it cannot be a taboo, as long as it is actually improved and as long as the fundamental guarantee function of the President of the Republic is preserved, even more so if it is called Sergio Mattarella.
Having said all this, it seems lunar that among the priorities of the reform proposed by Minister Elisabetta Casellati there is the abolition for the future of senators for life, except for the former Presidents of the Republic: but is there really anyone who thinks that excluding from Parliament luminous personalities full of history such as Liliana Segre, Renzo Piano, Mario Monti, Elena Cattaneo and Carlo Rubbia have been and are is what the 'Does Italy need it? More than a reform, a rule of this kind, even if projected into the future, only has the flavor of a poisonous revenge of the right on the past and, if it really begins like this, Casellati will end up falling from the tower.
