Felts, that's why no one will win the elections and going back to vote won't do any good
Of Vittorio Feltri
Paolo Mieli wrote a thoughtful article in the Corriere della Sera to demonstrate that the next political elections will probably not provide the country with a stable majority capable of expressing a lasting government. He's right. Unless a miracle emerges from the polls that gives a party enough votes to win the nougat. It won't be like that, at least looking at current polls. Who often make wrong predictions, but they are indicative of current trends. What is surprising is that, despite the uncertainties we are facing, every coalition and every single force express themselves with the confidence of those who have already won the consultations. Renzi's Democratic Party has no doubts: he believes he has the record in his pocket.
The center-right ditto: the Berlusconi supporters, seeing Silvio lord it over TV, they are convinced of being reborn and even think they are ready to enter Palazzo Chigi. Let's not talk about the Five Star of the snooty Di Maio, who preaches every day as if he were De Gaulle and imagines himself invested with the position of Prime Minister, a sort of redeemer coming from poorly attended evening schools. Then the third and fourth legs as well as some legs remain, among which Grasso's deluded people, namely Liberi and Equali, stand out, so presumptuous as to aim for the rebirth of Rosso Antico, a ragged and ramshackle communism existing only in the hallucinated minds of the resulting left.
The specialty of leaders and leaders is to deal without the’ cheeses. They advance with spears and don't know where to go or with whom. The Democratic Party destroyed itself at the behest of the Botteghe Oscure nostalgics, who demolished the Democrats in hatred of the young Florentine. Instead of helping the secretary to do less bullshit they committed the great blunder of burying him together with the’ whole progressive company. Those of Forza Italia have been reinvigorated thanks to the’ immortal Knight, but they didn't realize that without Salvini and Meloni they are worth less than 20 percent, therefore they are tributaries of the League and the Brothers d’ Italy, in the absence of which they are worth little. Read More
2021, the end of the Italian Republic. The United States of Europe is born
Of Marco Mori
Source: Maurizio Blondet
A short fantasy story (little) and reality… enjoy reading.
Maggio 2018. Celebrations until late at night for the centre-right coalition that returns to the helm of the country after the coup 2011 in which Berlusconi was literally ousted due to the action of the international markets. Forza Italia returned to lead the coalition, overcoming the 22% of consensus with a League below the expectations of the day before which does not reach the 15% of votes. However, the electoral law largely allows the center right to have the majority of seats, a mockery for the first party that remains, as in 2013, the Five Star Movement. A small Casa Pound patrol also enters Parliament which has evidently absorbed the no-euro discontent by taking away votes from the Northern League, whose more moderate positions have absolutely not paid off.
The centre-right programme, as declared during the election campaign, however, it is to arrive at a renegotiation of the European treaties so that there is room for maneuver to support the country's economy. However, the first declarations from Brussels are still fiery: “In Italy nothing changes, continue with policies to secure public finances". The statement from Brussels a few hours after the vote really leaves no doubt. Read More
La politica fa male e si "rimbocca le mani": Laughable
Beware of Trump: spacca the globalist elite and mandates in crisis the EU
Of Marcello Foa
Source: Marcello Foa
The Trump we saw in Davos is perhaps managing to split the globalist establishment, using the most surprising tool: the fiscal one, which is putting the European Union in crisis, which , after Brexit and Trump's victory, it had been indicated as the shield of the globalist elite. Former Obama advisor, Kupchan, he had been explicit writing That:
United States and Great Britain will be, at least temporarily, fugitives when it comes to defending the international liberal order, Continental Europe will have to defend the position. At a time when the internal cohesion of the European Union is being tested by the same populism that must be defeated, this is not a good time to ask it to fill the void left by the Anglo-American disengagement. But at least for now, European leadership is the best hope for liberal internationalism.
Let me explain: the scheme promoted by the globalist elite envisaged, until today, the creation of a single bloc in the EU, with the progressive eradication of national identities and structures, with the corresponding transfer of executive and legislative powers to supranational entities, with the consequence of favoring large multinational groups. The CETA Treaty between the EU and Canada, which takes up several salient points of the defunct TTIP treaty, and approved in the silence of public opinion, aims on the one hand to get rid of national legal constraints, conferring to private individuals and not to a Supreme Court, the last resort in the event that a large company feels damaged by national laws or measures, on the other, that is, emptying one of the pillars of our democratic system, on the other, promoting not competition but tax harmonization between EU countries, with a double standard: increasing tax levels for citizens and local companies, loopholes with subsidized regimes (publicly blamed but actually permitted) for large multinational groups. Read More
Hurray! The Catholic parliamentarians are back
Of Danilo Quinto
Only in the last legislature, laws have been passed civil unions, on the living will – which is equivalent to saying euthanasia – on the short divorce. Not to mention any initiative promoted in favor of birthrates and against abortion, which is the real cause of the crisis the country is in. But now, ahead of the elections 4 March, Catholic parliamentarians have returned. They can be trusted.
http://espresso.repubblica.it/attualita/2018/01/29/news/aboliremo-le-unioni-civili-l-ultima-minaccia-del-centrodestra-1.317676?ref=RHRR-BE
«We will abolish civil unions», says Eugenia Roccella, of Idea-Noi with Italy, former spokesperson for Family Day, candidate for the center-right in Emilia-Romagna il 4 March. Read More
The “porcellum” was better: these elections are the negation of politics
Report Linkiesta
We will end up regretting the worst electoral mechanisms. This is why the “rosatellum” (net of complaints about who was nominated and who wasn't) sums up the worst, and turns people away from politics
Ten minutes and we will also miss the Porcellum, with its blocked lists and the Cencelli Manual of the currents that yes, maybe it was a little’ shabby, but it forced the parties to be parties and had only one, main flaw: it prevented voters from punishing or rewarding individuals. Now that the lists are almost completely stripped away, it can easily be verified that Rosatellum has not solved that defect ma, On the contrary, he added the limitations of all major known electoral systems.
You can reward the commendable anti-Camorra personality and, for the game of multiple leaders and options, However, you find yourself chosen as the one who builds consensus with fried fish. You can punish, by not voting for him, the manager who disappointed you and he will be elected anyway, thanks to the parachute that was guaranteed to him elsewhere.
As in the dry proportional, the parties - especially in the South - have had to bow to the major bearers of preferences. As in pure majoritarianism, the establishments escape judgment by taking refuge in armored polling stations.
You can reward the commendable anti-Camorra personality and, for the game of multiple leaders and options, However, you find yourself chosen as the one who builds consensus with fried fish. You can punish, by not voting for him, the manager who disappointed you and he will be elected anyway, thanks to the parachute that was guaranteed to him elsewhere.
As in the dry proportional, the parties - especially in the South - have had to bow to the major bearers of preferences. As in pure majoritarianism, the establishments escape judgment by taking refuge in armored polling stations.
The new law seems to guarantee only one thing: total control of the leadership over those elected with the possibility of post-election agreements without too much effort, and to hell with everything else
Let's be clear: the complaints of the excluded cannot be entertained here, which are part of the "color" of each pre-electoral phase. Here it only happens that after a five-year period of very authoritative warnings on the need to go to the vote with new rules – rules that would reconcile the country with politics, would restore symmetry to the House and Senate, erase the sarcasm about the "Parliament of Nominees" – the new law exists and seems to guarantee only one thing: total control of the leadership over those elected with the possibility of post-election agreements without too much effort, and to hell with everything else.
«From the bond of mandate to the bond of servitude», the witty people write on social media, commenting on the absolute privilege given to the "loyalty" element in the allocation of safe places, and the exclusion from the lists of any possible suspect of Frondist animus. But this is only the surface breeze, the most visible data, which causes discussion especially in the PD house given that that party – compared to FI and the Five Star Movement – up to now it has prided itself on having protected a certain internal pluralism.
The profound phenomenon is another and it is the progressive homogenization not only of programs but also of "faces" and biographies. Once the bearers of a "line" have been eliminated, of some autonomy and a specific personal reputation, what remains are absolutely interchangeable figures. The beautiful Mediaset journalist who makes her debut as a candidate by specifying "a woman in politics is credible even if she wears a sheath dress" is on Berlusconi's lists, of Renzi or Grillo? And the passionate counselor who displays the "Executioner who gives up" to encourage her students is with Salvini or with Meloni? (Ps: both with the Democratic Party). And again, the "children of art" that dot all the price lists, we are sure that they have skills and visions in line with the parties that nominate them? Or they were caught only for the solid preferential packages guaranteed by their fathers?
«From the bond of mandate to the bond of servitude», the witty people write on social media, commenting on the absolute privilege given to the "loyalty" element in the allocation of safe places, and the exclusion from the lists of any possible suspect of Frondist animus. But this is only the surface breeze, the most visible data, which causes discussion especially in the PD house given that that party – compared to FI and the Five Star Movement – up to now it has prided itself on having protected a certain internal pluralism.
The profound phenomenon is another and it is the progressive homogenization not only of programs but also of "faces" and biographies. Once the bearers of a "line" have been eliminated, of some autonomy and a specific personal reputation, what remains are absolutely interchangeable figures. The beautiful Mediaset journalist who makes her debut as a candidate by specifying "a woman in politics is credible even if she wears a sheath dress" is on Berlusconi's lists, of Renzi or Grillo? And the passionate counselor who displays the "Executioner who gives up" to encourage her students is with Salvini or with Meloni? (Ps: both with the Democratic Party). And again, the "children of art" that dot all the price lists, we are sure that they have skills and visions in line with the parties that nominate them? Or they were caught only for the solid preferential packages guaranteed by their fathers?
Once the bearers of a "line" have been eliminated, of some autonomy and a specific personal reputation, what remains are absolutely interchangeable figures
At the end of the most troubled legislature of the last twenty years, who passed three electoral laws, a constitutional reform, the relay between a re-elected President of the Republic and an elected one, many had predicted, right on the basis of the Rosatellum, a return to the First Republic.
Now we know that this is not the case. If there was a founding fact of that ancient season it was the existence of well-fenced parties, strongly differentiated, hierarchical but not leaderistic, of a right and a left divided by an abyss, where no one – not even a singer, not even an actor, let alone a journalist or a local ras - he could have placed himself here or there.
The political experience that is opening up now is the exact opposite: a Republic without parties and without reference coordinates, where personal ambitions take root around the leaders and form a system of their own’ while “political ideas” – those "ideas" that seemed to be the indispensable basis of every action in the Polis, and they made us argue a lot – they fade into the background, like ghosts.
Source: http://linkiestait.musvc1.net/e/t?q=9%3d8TGc0%26D%3d9%26J%3d4TH%26K%3d2YAb5%26M%3dpPuH_zwTr_A7_ssav_38_zwTr_0BxO5.HjFsEfK27.jL_zwTr_0BjL_zwTr_0BbJ2EdDm_NRuX_XgTHW9_JYyQ_Tnf2_JYyQ_TnX0_JYyQ_TnAs3-uAhDqK-jD-xKs5mHmMu-Mv71Pf-7tA1AwJj-KwJp-Di-Jf9iVjGvA-e7tHb-HwHjLq_NRuX_XgUDe57b3iT_zwTr_0B%26e%3dE3Ow59.JfL%26qO%3d2UEe7
Now we know that this is not the case. If there was a founding fact of that ancient season it was the existence of well-fenced parties, strongly differentiated, hierarchical but not leaderistic, of a right and a left divided by an abyss, where no one – not even a singer, not even an actor, let alone a journalist or a local ras - he could have placed himself here or there.
The political experience that is opening up now is the exact opposite: a Republic without parties and without reference coordinates, where personal ambitions take root around the leaders and form a system of their own’ while “political ideas” – those "ideas" that seemed to be the indispensable basis of every action in the Polis, and they made us argue a lot – they fade into the background, like ghosts.
Source: http://linkiestait.musvc1.net/e/t?q=9%3d8TGc0%26D%3d9%26J%3d4TH%26K%3d2YAb5%26M%3dpPuH_zwTr_A7_ssav_38_zwTr_0BxO5.HjFsEfK27.jL_zwTr_0BjL_zwTr_0BbJ2EdDm_NRuX_XgTHW9_JYyQ_Tnf2_JYyQ_TnX0_JYyQ_TnAs3-uAhDqK-jD-xKs5mHmMu-Mv71Pf-7tA1AwJj-KwJp-Di-Jf9iVjGvA-e7tHb-HwHjLq_NRuX_XgUDe57b3iT_zwTr_0B%26e%3dE3Ow59.JfL%26qO%3d2UEe7
L'abbandono della classe operaia
Paul Craig Roberts
One of the great tragedies of our time is the abandonment of the working class by the white liberal progressive left. It is no longer the working class that is the victim and Wall Street, the big banks and the capitalists to be the executioners. Today the perpetrator is the white working class and the victim is everyone else. Somehow, the working class, whose incomes and opportunities have shrunk for three decades, a class that has no politicians and has also been abandoned by the Democratic Party, he is the powerful exploiter who pushed aside the billionaires and dominated America in their place. How likely is the mistreated working class, branded by Hillary Clinton as “Trump's deplorables”, is the one that governs America? Read More
The centre-right paradox, who risks winning the elections (and collapse a minute later)
Report Linkiesta
Allies more by force than by will, Salvini and Berlusconi gain consensus with every survey, enough to actually risk winning the elections. A scenario that would give rise to a government of opposites unique in the world: with Merkel, but also with Le Pen. For the Euro, but also against. Congratulations
Of Francesco Cancellato
There are pranks that end badly, battles born to be lost than later, for a twist of fate, they end up being winners. This is the case of Donald Trump, whose staff wanted everything, if he says, other than winning elections. And who knows if this is not the case with Silvio Berlusconi, That, say those in the know, he wanted everything except to govern with Giorgia Meloni and, above all, Matteo Salvini. He allied himself with it, in conclusion, because he took it for granted that the center-right would never be able to gain the majority of Parliament. And what, once in power, he would have easily managed to free himself from the unwanted embrace of his allies, to join in an inevitable re-edition of the Nazarene Pact with Matteo Renzi.
And instead, surprise, the unthinkable is happening. Renzi's consensus is decreasing month after month, victim of a curse that, paradoxically, took over the Democratic Party and its leader despite the popularity of the Gentiloni government and the increasingly positive data on the Italian economy, in an almost paradoxical disconnect between perception and reality, as well as due to the disturbing action of Liberi e Uguali. Also the Five Star Movement, despite still firmly being the first party, seems to be losing ground, partly due to Di Maio's inexperience, partly due to the disengagement of Di Battista and Grillo, a bit for a political proposal so far well beyond the limits of embarrassment. All this while the Lega and Fratelli d'Italia hold their own and the old Berlusconi – who perhaps just wants to get one more vote than Salvini – he manages to gain consensus every time he opens his mouth.
And instead, surprise, the unthinkable is happening. Renzi's consensus is decreasing month after month, victim of a curse that, paradoxically, took over the Democratic Party and its leader despite the popularity of the Gentiloni government and the increasingly positive data on the Italian economy, in an almost paradoxical disconnect between perception and reality, as well as due to the disturbing action of Liberi e Uguali. Also the Five Star Movement, despite still firmly being the first party, seems to be losing ground, partly due to Di Maio's inexperience, partly due to the disengagement of Di Battista and Grillo, a bit for a political proposal so far well beyond the limits of embarrassment. All this while the Lega and Fratelli d'Italia hold their own and the old Berlusconi – who perhaps just wants to get one more vote than Salvini – he manages to gain consensus every time he opens his mouth.
Milano: Elections coming up, which scenarios for investors?
Elections coming up: which scenarios for investors?
a cycle event “Finance editorial team” in collaboration with Moneyfarm
Thursday 25 January 2018, ore 18.30
at the editorial office of Linkiesta
Via G. B. Morgagni 6, Milano
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Il 4 Italy goes to the vote in March. What economic scenarios are foreseen? From pensions to the Eurodollar, from the stock market to the bond market, what impact the elections can have on Italian investments?
Don't miss the question and answer, moderated by the director of Linkiesta.it Francesco Cancellato, among one of the most irreverent and well-informed economic experts in our country, Mario Seminerio (author of the blog phastidio.net), e Sebastiano Picone Of Moneyfarm, one of the most important Italian Fintech companies.