And the vote was: it was inevitable, but not for someone's culpable and / or willful responsibility, but rather for the legitimate exercise of the right to dissent expressed by those who have seen their basic ideological setting definitively compromised with respect to certain self-referential measures imposed by the President of the Council of Ministers in the context of a government of self-styled National Unity mortifying, a priori, the identity of individuals.

It was not obvious, albeit predictable, and it certainly took by surprise those who were overly convinced, for evident common advantage, that the natural conclusion of the legislature would be reached without suffering too many shocks. It didn't happen that way. We will return to the polls on the 25th of September in the year 2022, and I think the date will be one to remember. We will be called to express our preference for the election of our representatives in the context of a drastically reduced Parliament in terms of numbers and, in any case, we will do so aware of seeing the expression of that preference compromised due to an irremediable original defect, to be governed by an electoral law, the Rosatellum, which, rather than guaranteeing governability, seems to be made on purpose to favor promiscuity and, consequently, political instability in the exercise of government activity.

Let's be clear: this is a healthy democratic exercise and, if anything, it would have been our duty to think carefully if the opposite eventuality had occurred, that is, if the current Parliament had opted with conviction to continue its activities under the aegis of an alleged national traction unity Mario Draghi probably existing only in the thoughts of our beloved President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella. The circumstance, however, is useful to appreciate the consistency of the current ruling class that would claim to represent the country in the next five years, which, indeed, fails to hide, not even for a sense of institutional decency, its inability and unpreparedness. For the sake of clarity: if from the parties of the center-right coalition, in the total absence of content calibrated on the current economic and social situation, Forza Italia and Lega seem to want to entrust the results of the electoral campaign by basing it on historical and dated arguments, known to be were the workhorses of the two reference parties in the years 1994 and 2018, from the parts of the center-left Enrico Letta, despite having the burden and the honor of directing the Party par excellence in the history of the Italian Republic, seems to place himself at the the same way as a newly licensed driver who claims to want to drive a "Ferrari Testa Rossa" (Democratic Party) using the necessary precautions to lead, if anything, an "Ape Cross" (ie a newly formed party with few pretensions , useful for squaring the circle in percentage terms, but very little decisive if understood individually). In other words: from the parts of the center-left, they seem to have not yet reached the awareness of their own expressive power for being too focused, on the one hand, on their internal struggles, and, on the other, for having sat down on the conviction of having to fight a latent fascism existing only, and fortunately, only in the memory of those who actually lived that historical moment.

Still, it seems incredible I know, but this appears to be the state of the art just two months before the next election. But it doesn't end there, alas. The commutative property is an algebraic property that characterizes addition and multiplication, and establishes in the first case that "by changing the order of the addends the result does not change", and in the second that "by changing the order of the factors the product does not change ". The recall is not made randomly and serves to stigmatize the content of the subjective composition of this electoral round which, inevitably, in terms of candidacies, will reward the so-called "magic circles" existing within the various competing parties, resulting in that , to go well (and so to speak), we will end up with a Parliament of reduced consistency "manipulated" by the now well-known "big party", very little inclined to abandon their need for "protagonism" but which, over the course of the various past legislatures, they have already been accredited for their functional and instrumental inconsistency. In short, to say it "papal papal": we will not likely see a healthy and serene turnover of the ruling class, but we will be called, in spite of ourselves, to express any vote that, with good verisimilitude, will guarantee "the appetites" of the powerful of the Palazzo . This is the feeling that withdraws from it. There will certainly be new parliamentary balances and unprecedented relations of power due to the simultaneous coexistence of a majority system and a proportional one, but the subjective consistency of the representations will be neither more nor less a "heated soup" too indigestible to be digested. Nor can it be otherwise since the "Rosatellum", in providing for a mixed electoral system requiring corrective measures not yet implemented, provides that one third of the seats between the Chamber and the Senate be elected in single-member constituencies, therefore through a majority system, while the remaining two thirds they should remain divided among the various parties, literally respecting the percentage results that they will total at the outcome of the vote, that is, they will be distributed through a system of a proportional nature.

If therefore, with reference to single-member constituencies, they seem to want to favor coalitions between different parties with every conceivable consequence, the real dilemma remains the division of seats between parties (forgive the inevitable repetition), completely suitable for potentially making the balance needle. Basically, any count will go to reward, at the end of the fair, and except for error, especially in single-member colleges, anyone who has scored one more vote than the others in the college. All this will be parameterized on the basis of a threshold of 3% of the votes on a national basis for the various competing parties, and 10% for the coalitions between parties. The consequence could be nothing short of paradoxical.

Taking into consideration the polls currently in place, we would arrive at the situation whereby, to consider everything, both the Brothers of Italy and the Democratic Party could draw a greater advantage and convenience if they had the courage to run alone, as they would offer the Country a contrasting and distinct identity image that unwittingly would affect the orientation of citizens who have been confused by many, too many years, of governmental promiscuity and a spasmodic search for lost individuality. With all due respect to the rest of the center-right and center-left, of course, it has indeed become a simple jumble of ideologies all yet to be defined. Certainly not a good deal will be made by anyone who has the audacity to associate Matteo Renzi and Giggino Di Maio in a coalition only for pure and simple electoral advantage, admitted and not granted that that advantage exists only on paper. And certainly, even if you want to consider everything, the results of this electoral round are far from obvious if we want to take into account the widespread "X" factor: abstention. Mind you: there was no lack of exercise of a right, but rather a legitimate silent exercise of meditated dissent resulting from an undignified political proposal, unworthy, for that very reason, of being able to be taken into consideration.

This electoral round, by setting doomed to failure, will be useful only if the various parties find the courage to bring the old ruling classes to a regime of forced quiescence to offer renewed and effective ones in the name of preparation and moral rigor as characteristics. uncompromising of an authentic representation of the Sovereign People. The deformed and out of tune "piled up" have run their course. The race is therefore two: not Letta-Meloni, but Brothers of Italy against the Democratic Party, right against left, "tertium non datur" although the 5 Star Movement of Giuseppe Conte represents a variable of no small importance, completely capable, despite the predictions, to mess up the set-up of the course. It is all still in the natural order of things. Any remainder is pure and simple reservist corollary.

Giuseppina Di Salvatore

(Lawyer - Nuoro)

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