Whoever won the elections, subject to the determinations of the President of the Republic, has the right-duty to govern.
Italy has been in transition for many years. A geostrategically decisive country, it has always been distinguished by political instability. In terms of ‘unsolicited advice’, this note is intended to signal an institutional urgency.
There is no doubt that the problem today is to do everything to prevent the worsening of the current economic and social crisis. On this, many are writing and proposing more or less sustainable solutions. We will return to this in future contributions.
The point we emphasise today concerns the need to inaugurate, from the government and the opposition, a ‘refoundational phase’.
The basic issue concerning Italy is the still unfulfilled transition from a ‘formal democracy’ to a ‘substantial democracy’ or, to be clearer, from a ‘bureaucratic state’ to a ‘democratic state’. This does not mean that Italy is not a democracy.
Italy, like many other countries, is a fragile democracy. If the ‘moral’ winners of the last elections are the abstainers, there is a problem. These are people who do politics but who, in many cases, have lost faith in the political offerings of the parties.
Everyone, those who voted and those who abstained, feel a now unbearable distance between the ruling classes and the real, everyday, vital needs of families and businesses. Add to this the fact that Italy is a deeply divided country.
The new government, and all the parties that will sit in the new parliament, will have the historic responsibility of starting a ‘refoundational phase for a democratic state’. This would make Italy a unique political-institutional laboratory and show, in critical-complex-systemic terms, our creative talent for embracing and governing the future that is already present.
