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31 January 2012

Democracy denied

We are so busy talking about the economy that we have forgotten democracy. Perhaps from a technical point of view, the Monti government is not a coup d’état, but that is what it is basically. It was Napolitano that elected it having been pressured by the EU to avoid an economic catastrophe denied by all the parties and the institutions until last summer. Where the hell were they before? Out picking daisies?
The former Berlusconi government and Parliament itself are not expressions of democracy but offspring of the party-ocracy. A distortion of the will of the people. Napolitano obstinately defends the parties from “anti-politics” and from direct democracy. We have an unconstitutional Parliament of convicted criminals and people with no ability who wouldn’t even find a job as dishwashers, “appointed” by five party secretaries. It has failed and it’s still there telling us what to do. Italy’s obscure illness is the party-ocracy that since the time after the last war, step by step has reduced any space for democratic confrontation and has taken control of the State. Piero Calamandrei, a father of the constitution, said at the beginning of the 1950s: “Calling deputies and senators “representatives of the people” no longer means today what was meant by this term in other times: rather one should call them employees of their party. The parties have been transformed from free associations of volunteer-believers, into armies organised with a top level staff of Commissioned officers and Non-commissioned officers in permanent active service. The election depends on the choice of candidates and that is done not by the voters, but by party functionaries. And the candidates, rather than having personal merit in specific professional competences are chosen for their attitude to becoming good functionaries of their party in Parliament." Since then, the situation has got worse. democracy is denied and there is no important decision relating to the citizen that is taken not by him but by the parties that allow themselves every licence thanks to the servile and ignoble journalists. With the results of the referendum, such as those on party financing and nuclear, they clean their backsides. The popular initiative laws like the “Clean up Parliament” one, are ignored. And all that happens with total silence from the Constitutional Court. What’s needed is for “direct democracy tools” to be inserted into the Constitution: the proposing referendum with no quorum, the obligation to vote within 60 days on popular initiative laws with open voting and the direct election of candidates. The next Vday will be for the introduction of direct democracy in Italy. They will never give up (but is it in their interests?). Neither will we. See you in parliament unless they do an electoral law that prevents that. “Calling deputies and senators “representatives of the people” no longer means today what was meant by this term in other times: rather one should call them employees of their party.

Postato da Beppe Grillo alle 06:19 PM in Politics