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Tuning Italy. Veltroni’s double elections defeat. PDF Print E-mail
by Webeehive.com 
Italy’s returning to its conservative liberal roots?
alemanno.jpg More than the national elections that have seen PDL Berlusconi’s coalition winning, it is the election of the Mayor of Rome – with a clear cut double turn majority ballot – that is tuning Italian politics. Following the third time election of Berlusconi since 1994, the election of the Mayor of Rome - Gianni Alemanno (1958), a talented modern fascist – marks the burial ceremony of the “catho-communism” invented in 1971 by Enrico Berlinguer (PCI) and Aldo Moro (DC). It is the final turning point for the incestuous experience of the populist left and the populist catho-right. 
 
Under the papal doctrine of John Paul II, since 1989 the Italian left run by Occhetto-Veltroni-D’Alema and the catholic progressives (De Mita-Prodi-Rutelli) perpetuated for almost two decades the idea that Italy could survive itself and the global events. The populist politics of the center-left has been systematically sanctioned by the electorate. The left claiming to bring the idea of progress needs to be coherent and intrinsically meaningful for the widest population, instead the right can also allow itself selective and elitist attitudes. As Eduardo Galeano once said: “the really burning fire is coming from the bottom”!
 
Rome was governed since 1870 to 1946 by either conservative catho-aristocrats or fascist Mayors. Between 1946 and 1976 Rome was governed by an intense and uninterrupted Christian Democrat (DC) leadership. It was only in 1976 that, following the catho-communist deal, the Italian Communist Party won the elections with Giulio Carlo Argan (independent of PCI) and with Petroselli (PCI) and Vetere (PCI) governed the capital town till 1985. Between 1985 and 1993 the town of Rome was governed in tune with the national “five party-system” (DC-PSI-PLI-PRI-PSDI) under an alternative leadership of Christian Democrats and Socialist Mayors. On the ashes of the Italian national political system, since 1993 through 2008 the town of Rome has been governed by the tandem Walter Veltroni (PDS, former PCI) and Francesco Rutelli (former Radical Party, then centrist catholic party – Margherita). In April 2008 the modern-fascist Gianni Alemanno consistently won as Mayor of Rome.
 
Rome is the eternal and holy town of Italy. The meaning of this election is important for the future of Italy. At national level the electoral law provides for certain uncommon rules that make very difficult to discern the electorate will. Instead at local level, the electoral law is a very simple double turn majority vote system. As a consequence it would be rational that prospect leaders like Veltroni and Rutelli - both key leaders of the Democratic Party (PD) - would present their resignation from any political appointment. If on the one hands Romano Prodi has voiced his self-retirement from (Italian) politics, on the other hands it would also be wise that Massimo D’Alema follows the same path. It is high time that new and independent center-left leaders be allowed to emerge!

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