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The Titanic elections

Elections right now, with this electoral law, would be a calamity. Monti has not been elected by anyone. He’s been appointed by Napolitano. Parliament in turn, has not been elected by anyone. It is the offspring of an unconstitutional electoral law. Parliament has been appointed by the party secretaries. Napolitano was elected by both chambers that were elected by no one. Thus Napolitano was appointed by people who were appointed. This is the situation that can only be modified by a new electoral law. The proposed popular law "Parlamento Pulito" {Clean up Parliament} is still languishing, after more than four years, in the Committee for Constitutional Affairs, and it would be enough to apply it before the elections to clean out the Lower House and the Senate. No one is talking about it. No party wants it.
Elections with a period of at least four months of non-government before the voting is equivalent to declaring the default. Anyone who wants elections knows that, but they don’t care. A list of appointees and a handful of armchairs is worth more than anything. They are ensuring the political survival of the decomposing parties that we have to “democratically” keep for another five years. For what it’s worth, I’ll write an open letter to Monti and I’ll propose that we meet up to ask him to place on the agenda the electoral reform signed by 350,000 citizens and the proposals for cuts at zero cost that came out of the blog survey.
Anyone shouting for elections is like the captain of a ship who when confronted with an iceberg, escapes in the lifeboats. It’s not practicable. It would ditch the most vulnerable classes. The spread with the Bund would shoot up to 1,000 and the interest on State bonds would be equal to that in Greece. So much worse for the citizens, so much better for the parties. Argentina would seem like a walk in the park. Monti is not the solution, someone to accept while holding your nose, as Montanelli said of the Christian Democrats. He’s the offspring of his environment, friend of bankers, one who frequents the “salotti buoni” {circles of the elite}. A liberist who has been standing watching the economic collapse without ever having too much exposure against the System. The only alternative to Monti, in a Country where the elections are obviously anti-democratic, is the revolution. But Italy today does not have the awareness, or the strength, to put that into being. The System has to be demolished from within. They will never give up (but is it in their interests?). Neither will we.

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Comments

This from Saturday morning's Guardian newspaper....

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/11/silvio-berlusconi-own-interests-italy

Posted by: Shelagh Barker | November 13, 2011 11:14 AM

Unfurtunately for Italy there is no solution approaching, the mistake was made as early as 1998 when the mothers and fathers of the nation fell for the biggest scam in Italian history, something as clear as daylight, but the average Mario Rossi couldn't see. The richest man in Italy becoming the prime minister, you fools that didn't pay attention to you first grade history lesson, that's called a King. King berlusconi ruled you for 20 years almost like a pope. Who by the way never condemned him even when he was f***** around with teenage girlfriends.
Shame on your obsolete class, soon to be extinct.
Now after having partied the wealth of the country off his scrotum, you Italians are left to choose your next holigarcs off the upcoming list of slave masters, once they managed Ferrari or Juventus I guess they are going to be alright.

Posted by: Christian Villi | November 13, 2011 09:16 AM

Hey, wassup Italy ?

Has the regime started to change ?
Ballaro on Sat night, Annunziata with 8 e 1/2 all week long at prime time ....

Beppe, please tell you ex-regime TV directors who are still 'directing' - that this is not enough!

Mrs Lei from RAI 1 has to go, Santoro has to be reinstated - if not as boss of RAI at least to be on screen 5 times a week, Travaglio should be given Biaggi's old spot after the news and EVERYTHING what can be done to bring back glassnost to italian media mainly TV, should be done.

You don't believe that switching over to Monti, the other rats and worms will be gone, and the others will start behaving ?

Italy needs responsible journalism and needs to keep its politiacians under the thumb.

Oh, by the by, I wouldn't be surprised if Berlusconi and his scum got some coins thrown their way - even today.

Wishing Berlusconi, Gasparri, LaRussa et co. HELL ON EARTH, and good luck to all reasonably honest italians,

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Posted by: Keyser Soze | November 12, 2011 07:10 PM

Prospects are blurring for Italy. 400 billion euros of submerged economy and mafia, n'drangeta, and similar organizations are a fact. Which party will be selected by the above people in new general elections? If you answer PDL, you are correct. Add that, under the organization of the Country, the citizen, to spare money, is driven to favor the submerged economy. Think also the the typical Italian, unlike the typical German, is a lobbyist for his family, not for the country. Difficult to see how Italy could escape these boundaries. On the other hand, unless corruption is demolished,there is no way out for Italy. Those who accuse Professor Mario Monti of being a lobbyist, forget that the play has to be plaid in the present context of Europe, not in a ideal world where the economist understands the laws of nature, first of all the principles of thermodynamics, in particular of irreversible thermodynamics. Professor Monti seems to be an attempt, albeit a late attempt. A reject of "Lodo Alfano" (supported by the Italian University) would have faced the premier with his charges. If proven, that would have much clarified the panorama. Let us now see how Professor Monti will do (if the premier really steps down, or does not succeed in managing for his candidate, as, even not as a premier, he will be still there with all his money). I wish that, in the framework of a general reordering of economy, Professor Monti will succeed in shifting the money for the useless tunnel of Val di Susa to exploit the enormous geothermal resources of Tuscany and Lazio: it suffices asking help from our last Nobel winner in physics to accomplish that. And create other job also in reshaping the country to avoid the recurring "unnatural" disasters. However, unless he will be able to demolish corruption, it is only a default of the Country that could change it (provided the errors of the 1st and 2nd Republic will be avoided). Cheers. Franz.

Posted by: Franz | November 12, 2011 10:23 AM

Italy is not alone. Where have th technocrats like Monti who appear as our saviours like Superman, been during the past five years. Neither politicians, economists, technocrats, "experts" nor the bankers who actually gave away the money, warned about the problems. Yet they must have known for years that the situation was getting out of contriol with rising debts. They are criminals, lining their pockets while the people now face a slide into deprivation. Revolution seems the onlt response.

Posted by: peter fieldman | November 11, 2011 08:41 PM