A HR activist, Mrs. Laura Boldrini, and a anti mafia judge, Mr. Pietro Grasso, are Italy's third and second most important personalities. However, the election of House of Deputies and Senate's Speakers does not allow to create a Government in an extremely divided Parliament.
MILAN (ITALY)- HR and legality are two values which can also allow to overcome political instability. On Saturday 03/16, Italian Parliament's Lower House has elected Laura Boldrini as the Speaker of the House of Deputies.
Mrs Boldrini is a HR activist and Deputy of left wing SEL party: the second most important political force in Democratic Party's leader Pierluigi Bersani's center-left coalition.
Mrs Boldrini has been voted by 327 Deputies of Bersani's centre-left coalition, whereas Roberto Fico, the candidate of the populistic Five Stars Movement, has obtained 108 votes, and the Deputies of the right wing coalition, which is led by former PM Silvio Berlusconi, have abstained.
Few hours after Mrs Boldrini's election, Mr. Pietro Grasso, a former judge and a Democratic Party's Senator, has won a internal election in the Senate, and became Italian Upper House's Speaker.
Grasso's victory has been possible thanks to the support of the center-left coalition and a part of the Five Stars Movement's Senators, whereas right wing coalition's Senators have supported the candidature of Senate's former Speaker Renato Schifani: a member of Berlusconi's right wing PDL party.
Mrs. Boldrini -the third women to be elected as House of Deputies's Speaker in the Italian history- in her first official speech as the Lower House's Speaker has expressed the importance to ensure an adequate representation to the poorest people, unemployed and women.
Mrs. Boldrini has also cited recently elected Pope Francis and former Italian PM Aldo Moro -a Christian Democrat killed in 1978 by far left wing terrorists after he had been appointed as the PM of a government supported by the Christian Democracy and the Communist Party- and has promised to exercise her role by the same passion she used to have while helping refugees during her previous career.
Mr. Grasso, a colleague of mafia's victims Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, has supported in his first official speech the importance to ensure transparency and legacy in Italian institutions.
Mr. Grasso has also remembered another anti mafia judge Antonio Capponnetto, and has expressed the intention to create a special commission, in order to establish the truth about all unsolved cases of mafia.
The election of the Lower House and Senate's Speakers now allows President Giorgio Napolitano to start consultations with political forces in the Parliament, in order to appoint a new Government.
The situation is not simple because of the lack of a sure majority in both the Italian Parliament's Houses.
One the one hand, Bersani's centre-left coalition -who has obtained the best score in last 02/24-25 Legislative Election- has a strong majority in the Lower House.
On the other hand, a crowded presence in the Senate of Berlusconi's right wing coalition and Five Stars Movement's Senators does not guarantee Bersani's coalition a majority in the Upper House.
In front of the situation, three possible solutions can now give the Country a new Government.
The first one is a coalition between the Centre-Left coalition and several Five Stars Movement's MPs, although Five Stars Movement's leader Beppe Grillo, a comedian who endorsed populistic slogans during the electoral campaign- has sentenced he is not going to establish any alliance.
The second possible solution is a technical Government supported by a 'Big Coalition' of the centre-left coalition, right wing forces, and former PM Mario Monti's centrist Civic Choice -despite nor Mr. Bersani neither Mr. Berlusconi are going to cooperate in the same government.
The third solution is a early legislative election, after a so called 'Presidential Government' -temporary named by President Napolitano and led by a technician as one of the Ministers in former PM Monti's Cabinet- will change the electoral law, which now does not permit any majority in the two Houses of the Parliament.
Matteo Cazzulani
Welfare Network/Lombardi Nel Mondo
lademocraziaarancione@gmail.com
www.welfarenetwork.it / www.lombardinelmondo.org
