Because the ruminations of the constitutionalist Gustavo Zagrebelsky on the re-election of Sergio Mattarella are reckless. The Scratches of Damato
In the realism bath of Eugenio Scalfari, in the comfortable and safe tub suited to his venerable age of 98 to be completed on 6 April, a shower of unrealism followed in Repubblica with a long article, almost an essay, by the esteemed constitutionalist Gustavo Zagrebelsky : yes, he himself, the president emeritus of the Consulta, the juridical protagonist of the referendum campaign in 2006 against the unfortunate constitutional reform approved in Parliament by the government of Matteo Renzi. With which he had a televised confrontation, hosted by Enrico Mentana, in which his friend Scalfari, also on Repubblica, awarded him a defeat, however, contradicted by the result of the referendum. After which the Constitution remained what it is. But the professor must not like it either – I repeat – distinguished and emeritus if, like it or not,
According to the president emeritus – I repeat – of the Constitutional Court, it was not an election or re-election but simply a “vote” which ended in favor of the talented and deserving Mattarella for a state of necessity, similar to that which forces a castaway to cling to the rescue donut, not to pick it.
It is at least curious that with this legal premise, more sophisticated than Socratic, the professor concluded his article with a tirade against too many words in which we would all be sinking, and not just the politicians. “The more we talk – he too wrote with some religious quotations – and the less it is done, the more the detachment, the boredom, the aversion grows”.
This would also apply to the information, which ended in the race to the Colle just concluded with the confirmation, or with the sole “vote” of Mattarella, “in the hands of the usual experts in quirinalizie and the usual” opinion makers “who filled up to boredom the media ”demonstrating“ the evil that lurks in too many words ”. But including yours, my dear professor and president emeritus of the Council, with all capital letters due for education or practice: including yours because, willy-nilly, they translate into a substantial media de-legitimization, at least, of the second presidential term of Mattarella which will begin the day after tomorrow with the swearing-in ceremony in front of the parliamentarians and the delegates who elected him. And not just voted, however sophisticated efforts may be made to deny or minimize it.
With the modesty of an old chronicler who probably attended parliamentary palaces more than the professor and president emeritus Gustavo Zagrebelsky, recounting the facts with the only tools at his disposal which are the much mistreated or feared words, I take the liberty of challenging the reduction to simple state of need, desperation and the like, the confirmation – let’s call it that to avoid both the term “election” and “vote” – by Sergio Mattarella at the Quirinale, despite the move that has already begun and in some way even flaunted by the president and the his collaborators. Parliamentarians have shown for once that they are more responsible, more aware, wiser, less word-of-mouth – if you prefer – than the leaders and leaders of their parties, or former parties. Peones or non peones, they will also have protected their annuities,
