We can try to sweeten the pill as much as we want, but the result will never be satisfactory. Not for those, at least, who would have liked, and would like to hear, words of authentic legitimacy in relation to a formation of government, after all, desired by a certain part of the Italian people who went to the polls on 25 September last. So why is Giorgia Meloni's "right" frightening? Or better: to disturb the European elites is the very idea of the "right" of government, or its current personification?
The distinction is not insignificant, and could even be the presupposition of a new ideology based on the distinction between the ideological structure, however considered, and its physical expression. Let's be clear: everything that was going to form right-wing thinking today would seem to be different from what was going to constitute the thinking of contingent society, or at least a large part of it. In essence, there is a very deep cultural margin that cannot in any way be filled in the blink of an eye just because Italians, for the first time in the political history of the country, found themselves with a female Prime Minister who, on the level of "gender identity", provoked the exultation of those who basked in the circumstance without going to consider its substance. An overwhelming electoral victory was not enough, nor can it ever be enough, to mark the legitimacy of a ruling class with spurious and contradictory outlines.
We could talk whole days: but the problem would always remain the attempt to overcome a cultural idiosyncrasy unable to reach its fulfillment. Saying it otherwise: either Italy resigns itself to accepting a change of paradigm on a cultural level quickly, or the "right" of Giorgia Meloni, so ambiguous in wanting to continue on the Draghian groove in order to be welcomed in the European Union with the favor of the most representative institutions and then depart from it with measures that would seem to contradict the original intent (the compliant attitude with no vax doctors for example), will have to resign themselves to changing their ideological structure.
Giorgia Meloni seems to have come to sit on one of the highest government seats, but she has not managed, at any time, to clear her "right" with respect to a conception of the same of an international character that considers her too close to that of chiefs of State such as Victor Orban who, for sure, can ensure Europe everything except the political and economic stability desired and interpreted by the Chancellery of France and Germany. And this is why Meloni, even to consider everything, more than smiles of circumstance, nothing would seem to have been able to bring back to Italy on the provisional level. This does not mean that the "left" can continue to hope to be able to return to the leadership of the country simply by waving the bugbear of a small conservatism of which most Italians do not seem to be afraid at all.
It has been repeated countless times: a "right" that presents itself to the world as sincerely hinged in the schemes of the most classic conservatism, and never backward , would also be the right stimulus to revive a "left" , which has remained dormant over the years. years for having lost its ideological framework. Communism remains, like fascism, a heavy historical legacy to bear not only for the parties that are based on those traditions, but for the whole of Italy, condemned, in spite of itself, to remain anchored in the global and globalized collective imagination, to ideologies that none of the current interpreters of government has ever managed to cancel and re-establish in the name of authentic progressivism. The collapse of the coalition that met, in spite of himself, in support of Mario Draghi for having been requested by the President of the Republic, and despite the applause of most Italians, came at a very delicate moment in terms of relations between our country and the 'European Union. However, that of Mario Draghi remained the most Eurosceptic and contradictory Parliament in history, as animated by a President of the Council of Ministers conceived as a saving personification of the European system, but disturbed by the presence of anti-system forces born and conceived to put themselves in contrast with the established power.
Giorgia Meloni's triumph appeared as the so-called “icing” on the cake, as the event that seems to have marked the crystallization of the Italian political crisis which has reached its completion. If Mario Draghi's experience could be conceived by the great European Chancelleries as capable of closing the circle of a recovery plan through the socialist and statist reform of the Italian state, on the contrary his resignation and the coming to power of the right populist would seem to have broken the agreed framework causing an irremediable shock on the level of the consolidation process of a certain idea of Europe. The dissolution of that rainbow ruling coalition has helped to highlight all the tensions that a country like ours can express in the context of a conflict that we were not in a position to sustain.
The real problem of this "right", in a nutshell, and also to want to neglect everything else, is the return to power of political forces that have distinguished themselves in the very recent past - we would say fortunately thinking of the energy benefits we have portrayed - for being extremely complacent towards Vladimir Putin. Did they commit sin? And who can say: “The pits are full of hindsight”. Only one thing seems certain: very hard times have come for Italy, for the Eurozone, for the European Union. The climate of mistrust that has always existed on the level of international relations due to the constant instability of our governments is not easy to overcome and there are no leaders, not even the national Georgia, capable of causing a useful reversal of trend. The "right" appears almost "castrated", the "left" does not seem to exist, and the "center", all to be defined and understood, is still "disappeared" . We are on the high seas, the "right" frightens, it is true, but judging by the results of the last polls, the "left" seems to frighten much more.
Giuseppina Di Salvatore
(Lawyer - Nuoro)
