It really is a bad electoral campaign in which a handshake between two mayoral candidates (in this case Pisapia and Moratti) becomes news. In which the communications authority has to intervene with very heavy fines (over 250 euros for Tg1 and Tg4, 100 for the other publications) to sanction the violation of the level playing field. On the one hand there is civilized behavior (the handshake) which becomes the exception, on the other a media invasion which forces the rules. It is therefore not surprising that the President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano distances himself from what increasingly appears to be a clash between factions and that the president of the Italian Bishops' Conference, Cardinal Bagnasco, launches a real "ugly" alarm politics”, hoping for the appearance on a new generation of Catholic politicians.
What we are witnessing and which (fortunately) is about to end, is an electoral campaign, from which the contents are missing: we are insulted by the possible construction of a mosque, we promise transfers of ministries and amnesty on municipal fines, we do not discusses city policy. Yet it is the future of Milan and Naples. Let's be clear, it has always happened that, on the occasion of administrative elections, it is the themes of national politics that prevail over administrative ones. But, even in this case, we should discuss economic policy, how to deal with the problem of public finances, the alarming unemployment figures put on the table by Istat. But no. To win the elections, instincts and fears are solicited more than reasoning. In the foreground are the risk of Islamization and gypsy city, while Berlusconi even evokes the risk of Stalingrad in the event of Pisapia's victory in Milan. In contrast, his main collaborator at Mediaset Fedele Confalonieri (man of business and not of politics) who says he will vote for Moratti, but also suggests that if Pisapia were to win it would not be a drama. Next Monday, one way or another, the electoral passage will be resolved.
And we will see what the backlash will be for the Government. Who has already asked for confidence in the omnibus decree, which should block the referendum on nuclear power. The opposition protests, and everything suggests that even the return of politics to Rome will be marked by confrontation.
