In the speech Turin on democracy, on the eve of April 25, the President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano has reminded us that the main institutions of democracy, conceived in opposition to every despotism, are "guaranteed rights of freedom (especially freedom of thought and press), the division of powers, the plurality parties and the protection of political minorities. " Quoting Norberto Bobbio, the president also reiterated the importance of the representativeness of Parliament, the independence of the judiciary and the rule of law.
no coincidence that the warning of the guarantor of the Constitution comes at a time when more and more often we see the arrogance of the executive which continually blows ordinances, takes possession of legislative powers in the name of "governability", stripped of did the Parliament of its functions.
The Head of State, which turned to Berlusconi but without quoting him directly, said that "today the government has already much power in relation to Parliament, having spent time in the Chambers prevailed on the executive, and warns against the continued demand for more power that is received by the winners of the elections, warning that "the complaint dell'ingovernabilità tends to suggest that authoritarian solutions ".
The President of the Republic could not be starker in the reject the "Berlusconi" in the most effective and politics of his speech, which was probably also the most challenging of taking office at the Quirinale.
The allegation of Napolitano came after a period of hard institutional clash, which began several months ago, and he has seen in the declarations Prime Minister on "Eluana case", the most critical moment. Just at that Berlusconi had expressed the intention of threatening to drain the powers of the Head of State and the Charter of fundamental change, according to the premier, was born "under the influence of the end of a dictatorship and with the presence at the table ideologized of forces that have looked to the Soviet Constitution as a model. " In those statements
condenses the basic idea of \u200b\u200bdemocracy second Berlusconi to govern without any offset, making Parliament a mere ratification of decisions within the government, concentrating all power in his hands of one person.
idea of \u200b\u200bdemocracy and authoritarian plebiscite in which, as Stephen says Rodotà you get into a "terra incognita" in which "the fundamental rights of persons no longer be trusted to guarantee the law, but the instincts of the majority" with the ' effect of disrupting the same constitutional democracy that is based on the Charter and will cause the head of state to argue that "the Republican Constitution is not some kind of war surplus as somewhere you would be sometimes to understand and which is based on values \u200b\u200bdeveloped in ' opposition to fascism, the Resistance. "
why we can not agree with Napolitano when says: "Respect the Constitution also means recognizing the essential role of constitutional review, and therefore the authority of the guarantee institutions. These should not ever be the subject of political attacks and disparaging reviews, beyond the expression of reservations about their specific responsible decisions. "
"The Constitution is not a simple charter of values. It is fundamental law and the supreme law also appears to be in marking the limits within which it can place all power is constituted and governed by the same sovereign will of the people. "
established power which Parliament is according to a logic of representation the people's will put a strain on those rules, designed to avoid excessive political fragmentation, have weakened the representation and questioned the freedom to vote and that in the absence of a viable training procedures of the applications and mechanisms of anchorage between the elected and electors for the territory, have helped to weaken our democracy. A
vulnus unfortunate that with the request for a "useful vote" that has crippled pluralism, social, political and institutional environment that is the essence of democracy, resulting in the ouster of some of the political spectrum by Parliament and the European electoral threshold, imposed by the majority with the agreement all of the current parliamentary opposition could intensify.
This marks the 25 April is not only the occasion of celebrations and memories, but now more than ever, must become an occasion for reflection on the risks to which authoritarians can slip our democracy.
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