It is clear that the parliamentary institution does not fall within the political conception of Luigi Di Maio and the grillini (although not all). In fact, what is the imperative mandate if not an instrument to deprive Parliament? If that's the case, there's an even better solution: the “liberum veto”, which was applied in the Polish Diet, and consisted in the right of each member of the assembly to block any deliberation by his vote. Thanks to this insane institution, Poland was partitioned twice with the approval of the ruling aristocracy. Maybe this is what Di Maio unconsciously longs for?
To remain on the subject of institutions, it is worth adding some reflections on the question of the electoral law which is being discussed these days. Here too, the healthy Machiavellism applied by Matteo Renzi to oust Matteo Salvini would be desirable. The general interest and the evidence of the facts would recommend a French-style double-round majority electoral system, the only one that would guarantee governance and exclude extremism, as demonstrated by the steadfastness demonstrated by the Macron presidency in the gilets jaunes affair. But as things stand, reasons of state, which in this case coincide with the interests of democracy, advise against this option.
In fact, we must take note that this country is dominated (since the era of the Communes and lordships) by political oligarchies and by economic and social corporations that do not tolerate the centralization of powerunless imposed by force. As the seventeenth-century political scholar and disciple of Machiavelli, Gabriel Noudé warns: "You must never attempt anything except to bring it to fruition." If this axiom is true, the only solution with more chances of success is that of a proportional electoral system, with a threshold of around 4%. Even if the fibrillations of Di Maio and the M5S do not lead to optimism.
