Ma why is it so difficult to reform and modernize the country in Italy? Salvini's fault or the fault of the Five Stars and their ideological prejudices? Sure the conservatism of some political forces – who offer a surreal reading of the state of the country and who don't care about the general interest, chasing only the electoral consensus in the short term – counts, but that's not all. In reality, under the aversion to the new of some parties there is something else: a block of interests that hinders change, as was also seen on the occasion of the 2016 constitutional referendum, except now having to put up with the belated and often hypocritical litanies of those who complain about the distortions in the relationship between the State and the Regions, which came to light sensationally during the management of the pandemic.
But, leaving the generic and therefore useless denunciations, in an editorial published last Thursday by Corriere della Sera, the distinguished jurist and constitutional judge emeritus Sabino Cassese he didn't go too subtle and named the names and surnames of the forces blocking the renewal of the country. With lots of examples.
“It would be long to list the holders of the power of interdiction in Italy today”, writes Cassese, who however does not avoid indicating the forces of conservation. They are part of the alignment that blocks the country the trade unions, who have developed an exclusively vindictive attitude”. And to think that in the seventies the CGIL of Lama and Trentin, the CISL of Carniti and the UIL of Benvenuto led the battle of reforms: other times and other leaders.
But in addition to the unions, Cassese puts three other forces in the dock: “The judicial power, which confuses independence with immunity and protection of legitimacy with concern for morality". Then "the Court of Auditors, which exchanges the role of guardian of legality with that of guardian of its own prerogatives", and finally "the Anti-Corruption Authority, which magnifies the danger of corruption to broaden the scope and intensity of its action".
“But if this cannot be changed, the other cannot be done, how is it possible to govern?” Cassese rightly asks. And it is precisely this that blocks the renewal of Italy. Let's hope that, with his intelligent pragmatism, the premier Mario Draghi find in the coming weeks the right window to finally make at least three or four reforms that Europe is asking of us and without which the Recovery Plan itself could hardly take off. After the acceleration of the vaccination plan and the rewriting of the Recovery by April, the most urgent reforms become the main dish of SuperMario's renewing challenge. But not by chance, in a recent interview with FIRSTonlime the former socialist leader Claudio Martelli, while throwing a spear in favor of Mario Draghi, warned that "relaunching Italy is more difficult than saving the euro".
