Damato’s Scratches on Scalfari (and not only on Scalfari)
Introduction, indeed reiterated, the admiration that is due to Eugenio Scalfari – net of any possible dissent, and despite the heavy irony reserved for him today by Marco Travaglio – for his commitment with whom he continues to follow at the age of 97 that very complicated thing that is Italian politics, I wondered about the optimism expressed yesterday on Repubblica, albeit amid some concern, about the fate of our democracy. Which Ilvo Diamanti instead considers “suspended”, or “of the presidents”. Frankly, the very few “names” that, according to Scalfari, “reinforce” it in these difficult times are not enough for me. They are those of Sergio Mattarella, Mario Draghi, Giuseppe Conte and the Democratic Party: almost three chips at the bank of the political casino of Italy.
Even with the respect that he too deserves, for charity, and always net of the dissent from some of his choices, the good Mattarella and the last year of the quirinal term. Of which, at the most, one can hope that Parliament will offer him, and he accepts, a substantial short extension, like what happened in 2013 with Giorgio Napolitano, as Scalfari rightly recalled, when the Parliament of the time was disastrously blocked in research of a successor. In fact, it is not said that inconveniences will not be repeated even in these Chambers, which compared to the previous ones have the further handicap of a substantial de-legitimization deriving from a constitutional reform that will see them renewed after a year with 345 seats less: not really bruscolini, I would say. And with what effects on the real parliamentary representativeness,
Mario Draghi has the strength, of course, but also the weakness of being a personal reserve of the Republic: personal, because there is no party behind him. And the majority that supports him in Parliament is paradoxically as broad as it is fleeting because there are always those who pull him from one side to the other, I hope not to the point of making him impatient, sooner or later, and having him send everyone to that country , starting with those who demand from him “dates” as confetti on which to hang hopes and calculations of all kinds.
Yes, it is true, Scalfari wrote that behind Draghi one can glimpse the Democratic Party for “concordance of views and political actions”, of which Scalfari himself nevertheless feels “not to understand to what extent” the president of the Council, evidently this “substantial” convergence also appears to him to be so weak. On the other hand, Scalfari from the Democratic Party is forced to acknowledge that he “suffers from some internal divisions”. Which I fear are not destined to reduce with the current arrival of Goffredo Bettini, who has made himself available to the new secretary Enrico Letta – he told Corriere della Sera – “in the most appropriate ways”. These, however, do not seem to me to be the ones suggested to him regretting Giuseppe Conte at Palazzo Chigi and saying that “he did not fall, but was made to fall” for reasons and with methods to “investigate”.
Just as Bettini puts it, and for the overestimation made by Zingaretti before resigning, or resigning as a result, it does not seem to me frankly that Conte is able to “strengthen democracy” even in the role assigned to him by Beppe Grillo as re-founder and head of the chaotic movement of the 5 Stars, closer and closer now to the collapse from splitting, or vice versa.
