PALERMO (ITALPRESS) – A path to reconstruct 43 years in close contact with the political landscape is an opportunity to reflect, in the company of those that he himself defines friends, on the evolution of the dynamics of the parliamentary court and the relations between parties. Pier Ferdinando Casini chose the frame of Palazzo Bonocore, in Palermo, to present his latest book ‘At the center of the classroom. From the first Republic to the present day: the work gathers inside the interventions in the classroom and the political evolution of a man who in his career wore the shoes of the party leader, the president of the Chamber, the man both right and left; present, together with Casini, the vice president of the Chamber Giorgio Mulè, the national vice president of Italy Viva Davide Faraone and the MP of the Pd Giuseppe Provenzano.
The meeting allowed Casini to share anecdotes with the public and fellow stagers, but also to foster an exchange of views on changes within parliament and the same coalitions. The main theme is the disappearance of parties in the traditional sense, with an increasingly direct policy towards personalisms: to this are added the progressive backwardness of the center with consequent polarization between right and left, a more preponderant role of Europe without however that it has still reached a leading role in the global scenario, the urgency of finding strategies to curb the disaffection of citizens towards vote.
“On the occasion of my 70th birthday at the House they wanted to gather all my writings and speeches in the classroom – says Casini, – I loved politics trying to do the best I could, in a complicated journey in which the world changed. When I was born in 1955 Europe produced 50% of the world GDP, today it produces 15%: there are so many economic challenges at the door, but we have to take our destiny to ensure that our children are not subjects of someone else. Today when I talk to young people I realize how much better they are than how we represent them: it is fundamental that they know history. I would like that in politics to begin to dialogue deeply: in this room there are people who, even with different ideas, want to dialogue on the future of Italy. With the hindsight, many things could be said: one of these is that compared to today’s government Berlusconi is a moderate.”.
The peculiarity of the former president of the House, according to Provenzano, is the ability to pass “from party leader to man of the institutions: as a man of the left I found a curious paradox in this passage. On some things I did not agree, even because with Casini when I was young we were political opponents: I thought that after the Dc there could still be a moderate force able to hold the demon of the right, but with the Berlusconism season that theme was denied.”.
Pharaoh points out a particular alignment with Casini regarding the idea “according to which in the absence of a strong center within the centerleft it ends up strengthening the right: it is equally objective however that this right that governs the country has put in a corner every form of reformism, although today this risk is present also within the centerleft; in this way it is risked to present to voters two coalitions with a bipolarism enough”.
Mulè emphasizes that “the political trajectory of Casini is in the name of a faithfulness to those who believe its values: to this is added a sense of institutional responsibility in which the culture of compromise is a fundamental element in order for democracy to be really such. There is a passage from the book that has particularly in which, what is said to chase the chimera of the center does nothing but extend the polarization: the Dc in the first Republic knew how to keep to mind the ‘spiritelli’ of the left, but today it is different”.
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