Reporting of F.F.
Cl did not invite Salvini but his right-hand man took the stage, forcing Vittadini into a long reply
The title of the event “it's wrong”, Giancarlo Giorgetti began. “Today the real enemy of democracy and politics is globalist ideology”. Towards the government “you have a perplexed attitude”. Shots at Berlusconi and the Democratic Party. “The League is rewarded because it has a leader who managed to create a direct connection with the people”.
He wasn't invited Matteo Salvini al Meeting. The leader of the League and Minister of the Interior does not like the CDO led by Vittadini and his battles sound out of tune in the ears of the leaders of the Cielle event, certainly not benevolent towards the yellow-green government. The big figure of the League invited to the fair's halls today was the undersecretary of the Prime Minister's Office, Giancarlo Giorgetti, whose intervention had been placed in the "enclosure" ofintergroup for subsidiarity. But Giorgetti, albeit in calm tones, he immediately came out of the enclosure and sang and played them to Vittadini too. Expressing all the impact force of the "Salvini thought".
“I would start from the title of the Meeting”, he began. “The forces that move history are the same that make man happy”. Sly smile. “I want to make a provocation. In my opinion the title is wrong“. A few seconds of silence. “There is a quote by Dostoevsky that I really like: if you make people choose between freedom and happiness, people will always choose happiness. If you allow me, the title should be 'the forces that move history are the same that make man free and happy‘. Otherwise to those who accuse me of populism (he continued, turning his gaze towards Vittadini) I say be careful, Why if we want to make the people happy the quickest way is that of populism“.
Avanti. “History is movement and today the real enemy of democracy and politics is globalist ideology which has established itself in recent times 10-20 years and which claimed to replace politics and democracy. The recipes that this ideology offered in Italy, in Europe and around the world, they were the same, starting from economic policies conveyed by the International Monetary Fund, the recipes that are administered by the European Union, those are the "truths" of economic policy that must be implemented everywhere and which should guarantee development and prosperity, well being".
If instead we talk about values, added Giorgetti, “some theories that they want to be spread to the people, even if the people don't share them, they are the politically correct ones. This overdose of political correctness that has been fed to the people has caused a reaction: the deep roots, popular, they did not accept this form of conditioning and provoked a reaction that overwhelmed all the institutions of democracy as they were known. The populist reaction, identity, it has also overwhelmed representative democracy: Parliament counts for absolutely nothing anymore, especially because it is no longer heard by the voters, who see in it the place of inconclusiveness of politics and if we continued to defend this representative democracy like a fetish we would be making a mistake and not even doing the good of democracy".
There is democratic participation today?, Giorgetti asked himself. "And, people participate, far too much, and resolves political participation in a like, a superficial participation that is however there. Today there is an avalanche of information, there is more information but also more misinformation. Almost no one reads anymore, Once upon a time we were forced to inform ourselves by reading books and then delving deeper, reflecting".
Benedetti leader. “This democracy-politics-participation short circuit has resulted in the direct relationship between the people and the political leader”, Giorgetti said again. “The fact that there are leaders is the essence of politics, there can be no politics without recognized leaders. The problem is that this phenomenon has become pathological and has become so now because of the web, but even before that "thanks" to television..." Saber to Berlusconi: “Let's say it honestly, but without holding trials or giving negative judgements... Berlusconi was the first to use television to create this type of direct relationship, he demonstrated that you could win without having a real party behind you (with all due respect), organized…” Then to the Democratic Party: “I tell Delrio… having an organized party behind you is a burden, it is a diseconomy in modern politics, it's something that sinks you, it is much more comfortable and efficient to have a direct relationship and we in the League are rewarded today because we have a leader who managed to create this type of direct connection. So be careful not to completely overlook something that in my opinion has come out of the political debate and which instead should be included, that is, the theme of reform of democratic institutions. If they don't reform themselves to try to make sense, a content, a direction to this type of popular response, you then quickly throw everything away, Parliament and everything that comes after it. Unfortunately this did not become one of the titles of the government contract, because instead we have to change something and also quickly because everything that happens around the buildings of power in Rome will not be able to be contained and then there will be a potential danger for democracy because the strong man's request will begin to become serious“.
You don't love us. “I see that you too are towards the government (addressed to the Meeting, ndr) you have a perplexed attitude, but this type of drive must be systematized, it must produce a result, it cannot always be the contrast between the new and the old, the good and the not good, the honest and the dishonest. We must be able to change the mechanism within which we find ourselves operating".
Goodbye intermediate bodies. “Institutional intermediate bodies, formalized, those born at the beginning of the last century, I see them all in crisis, those born by free association even recently are healthy. Everything institutional has become sclerotic and is proving unsuitable for understanding contemporaneity. Example: il cooperative credit it has a beautiful history but today that world is there, as it is, it can no longer work. The legitimation of trade associations it has been waning, who they represent? The unions... I could go on forever with this list. We must be able to channel all this emotional wave in positive terms, which otherwise becomes resentment..."
The replica of Vittadini. The analysis of the man who has been defined as Salvini's shadow man hit the mark, so much so that Vittadini gave him a long reply: “Certainly Giorgetti is right if by happiness we mean what they mean today, but in the sentence of Giussani happiness is not being a comfortable pig, happiness rhymes with freedom, it means this insatiable desire of the heart, it is the urgency of something that is never enough, it is infinity, it's something uncomfortable... The happiness of the Meeting is that 'it's never enough' and therefore I agree with Giorgetti that this makes it uncomfortable". Then a draft of self-criticism: “We too as Meeting have made mistakes many times we sought power, in the face of those who don't run this risk even when they go into politics". And then a direct blow to the government in office: “The mistake of every government is: I arrived and I'm not interested in power... the fox and the grapes. Everyone has this risk. It's not that we have doubts about the government but everyone knows that they run the same risk as before. It's not that we need to be cynical and wait for the body on the river... but the body passes by anyway even if we don't wait for it, because that's the limit, it is evil, it's the heart, it's Job".
Vittadini said he agreed on the topic of intermediate bodies with the representative of the League: “There is a crisis, It is true, ours too, so how do you do it? We need an education of intermediate bodies which otherwise become corporations, they must be brought back to the common good". And then he closed by returning to the government: "We we have no doubts about this government, as on all previous ones, we want to collaborate with everyone, not because we don't have a thought but because dialogue is the form of subsidiarity. LeU will also be at the Meeting tomorrow, I wish there were too 5 place…, their problem and not ours“. And a hint to the fact that even inside CL the fences have become free: “Now each of us votes as we want, the first Republic was the one in which the CEI told Catholics what to do...". Ending up trying to motivate an attitude of at least coldness towards the current government, when instead with Renzi and Gentiloni it was kisses and hugs: “We are critical of ourselves and of others, this criticality is the contribution we can make, and we want to give it not against politics but together".
The prospects of democracy:
By the Parliamentary Intergroup for Subsidiarity.
They intervened, moderated by Giorgio Vittadini, president of the Foundation for Subsidiarity:
Giancarlo Giorgetti, Undersecretary to the Presidency of the Council of Ministers;
Graziano Delrio, President of the PD deputies;
Mariastella Gelmini, President of the FI deputies;
Maurizio Lupi, President of the Parliamentary Intergroup for Subsidiarity;
Massimiliano Romeo, President of the senators of the League;
Gabriele Toccafondi, Member of the Italian Parliament, CP.
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