"Power inebriates, the Constitutional Charter defends everyone": the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, speaks to middle school students in a hall of the Quirinale, but his reference is clearly addressed to the leaders of the League, Matteo Salvini, and of the Five Stars, Luigi Di Maio, who don't lose a day to attack anyone who disagrees with the bizarre economic maneuver they are preparing. And in fact, the President takes sides in clear defense of the Authorities and independent technicians, explaining that the Constitution does not at all provide for the absolute power of the Government but a delicate and refined system of balancing of powers which is the salt of democracy.
The intervention of the Quirinale came later the umpteenth attack by Salvini on an independent technician like the president of INPS, Tito Boeri, who yesterday warned of the dangers of introducing share 100 to bring forward your retirement and which, in your opinion, it could entail 100 billion more debt.
It had previously been Di Maio to attack the Bank of Italy for his warnings against the dangers of undermining the social security system going beyond the Fornero law, not to mention the deranged attacks made by the Government on theParliamentary Budget Office andAnti-Corruption Authority.
In recent days Mattarella had not hesitated to appeal to Prime Minister Conte for his government to moderate the tone also towards the European Commission, who never misses an opportunity to call on Italy to respect the budgetary rules agreed at European level and to remember the immense mountain of public debt it has to deal with. Repetita iuvant, or so one hopes
