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Mario Draghi has thrown in the towel for good and the President of the Republic has surrendered to the evidence. It's off to vote: next September 25, Italy will have a new government.This is the first time in the history of the Italian Republic that a government with a very large majority, including even the so-called "opposition forces”, has unraveled at the behest of its prime minister despite having the confidence of parliament as the votes showed. Outraged at not becoming the new President of the Republic, the final straw that drove Herr Draghi to the grand renunciation was the hostility of a few dozen 5 Stars parliamentarians, who walked out of the Senate without taking part in the votes. The 5 Stars were then joined by the raising of the game of the Northern League and Forza Italia (Silvio Berlusconi's party), which were demanding more space and visibility in the government but were actually preparing for a no-holds-barred internal guerrilla war. To no avail were the seemingly sincere attempts by reappointed President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella to keep Draghi in his post, or the idea of a new government of national unity, or the media campaign so well orchestrated by newspapers and other media in favor of the resigning prime minister. Mario Draghi is many things but he is not dumb, and he knows well that past August, with its vacations and the sultry, narcotizing heat, the situation in Italy could suddenly worsen because of the economic crisis, the war in Ukraine and the return of the Covid epidemic. Covid in Italy has never really gone away, which is strange given that more than 90 percent of the population is vaccinated. To rule under these conditions, one must have the full support of an enslaved parliament (as in the Greece of Syriza and the starving) and not a recalcitrant one that disputes its absolute master and ambushes him out of the blue. Draghi preferred to retreat and perhaps watch from a safe distance a burning Italy after he himself helped start the fire. So to the polls and may the will of the people be done! Or almost. One thing, however, is sure: thanks to the law passed by the first government of Giuseppe "people's advocate” Conte, parliamentarians in the House will drop from 630 to 400 and senators from 315 to 200. A cut that puts a tombstone on the political careers of not a few of them. It is very likely that the 5 Stars Movement will disappear, returning to the great nothingness from which it came. Too bad, but better that way. It had deluded many Italians, including me. We all had, we his admirers and voters, a great need for justice, honesty, glasnost and perestroika. Yes, I know: Italy has never been the Soviet Union of Brežnev and Gorbačëv, but the country's problems were serious and before everyone's eyes. They still are, indeed: now they are worse. But for those of us who had dire needs and sincere faith, the arrival of those new faces in parliament was a breath of fresh air and the beginning of the long-sought change. Those new people had promised a lot. Then it seemed they were committed to a different politics at last. At least until they made a government with the Italian Democratic Party (the former communists, who have ruled Italy since Mani Pulite onwards, whether in government or opposition). In the end, they proved to be the improvisers they had always been, and then, for us poor deluded people, it was an icy shower of equally icy reality, made by falling on the hard, rough concrete floor of our poor thing's bathroom. Ironically, the law on cutting parliamentarians was one of the workhorses of the 5 Stars who, in retrospect, shot themselves in the foot. The very ones who said they wanted to open the Italian parliament like a can of tuna and in a few months they became the tuna trying to prevent any opening, from inside the can. They will go back to what they were before they were elected and they will lose the last hundred thousand euros in salary but whatever: the important thing is that they get out of the way. Somebody, if they can, plant them with an ash stake where ash stakes are usually planted and we turn the page. Curtain.The Democratic Party? Well … the former Italian Communist Party has been the best ally of the Americans in Italy since … ever, that is, since Mani Pulite, almost thirty years ago. But the anthropological mutation of this party, that is, the shift from a historical Left made up of communism, families, workers, culture and the proletariat to the current cosmic nothingness of the "woke” type began well before the American-inspired judicial coup that did not even touch it. The old Christian Democracy of the First Republic was no friend of the Americans while rejecting fascism and communism. It obeyed because within the dynamics of the Cold War, but it did so obtorto collo. Its major leaders, along with Bettino Craxi's Socialist Party, never stopped seeking for Italy a path of autonomy and independence from Washington's diktats and paid their price on several occasions. One example is the assassination of Aldo Moro, still attributed solely to a commando of "communist revolutionaries” (sic) of the Red Brigades. With the Italian Democratic Party the problem does not arise, being completely smeared on the positions of its American Democratic Party counterpart, the Clintons, the neocons, the various LGBT lobbies and the "woke” culture (culture?). Let's say then that the IDP will lose some MPs and will not be able to form a government on its own, even with the help of its satellite parties that are also in danger of disappearing. It will in any case try to maintain the grip on power that he so covets, through his pro-European lobbies, the media, local governments and the large section of the judiciary that follows it blindly.
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