It's really true that you always learn something from the small screen. last night at "Ballarò” Lucia Annuziata, the director of the site Huffington Post Italy, with solemnity, explained to the educated and the inclined that the central problem of these political elections is not the Imu but the governability of the system. Annunziata is absolutely right because it is truly inconceivable and intolerable that a political force that wins the elections to the Chamber cannot govern because the Senate's regional prize game risks giving a distorted advantage to other political formations in Palazzo Madama, making it difficult to establish a government. But so be it. The annals record that the Porcellum, that bastard electoral law invented by Silvio Berlusconi and the League – who will always bear the historic and political responsibility for it – to prevent Romano Prodi from winning the elections and from governing in 2006.
Seven years have passed since then and the protests against the Porcellum they were wasted. But Porcellum is always there. Why? Berlusconi and the League, it bears repeating, are the main killers of a democracy based on correct electoral law. But are all the others innocent? The only one for which you can put your hand on the fire is Mario Monti, the latest entry into politics who has in fact announced that changing the electoral law will be his first commitment in the new legislature. But Casini, Fini and above all the Pd? Accomplices or helpless? Casini did not hide his annoyance with Porcellum but he never had the political strength to change it. Fini, who was then with Berlusconi, even voted for him, except for self-criticism later.
And the Democratic Party? In words, the Pd has always been opposed to the Porcellum but, towards the end of the legislature, it pulled the brakes and gave up seizing the spaces for intervention that Berlusconi's wavering left, to try to really correct the Porcellum. The inoffenable idea was that Porcellum is a filth but gives an unusual prize to the first party in the Chamber and that therefore it was worthwhile to take advantage of it even if you held your nose. The infinite forcing of Giorgio Napolitano was useless, the only one who can say that he fought with all his might against Porcellum. But in vain, Now the Democratic Party is starting, rightly, to worry but it is possible that political clarity cunning is always preferred? Unless you realize later.
