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Italian democracy: let's talk together

Our last meeting consisted of a discussion between us on the theme of Italian democracy, we have had Wednesday, December 15 at 19 at the headquarters of the Italian Council of the Movement European Piazza della Libertà 13 , fourth floor.
exchange greetings, which extend also to the readers of the blog, we discuss initiatives for 2011.

*** The Italian debate on democracy has long been trapped between the regime thesis and dissertation the omnipotence of government leaders and come out victorious from the elections . The debate is stuck, because it very much to those who support the thesis as the other. Yet they are both without merit. We live in such a way so emphasized the populist wave that crosses the old Western democracies, to have a President of the Council and majority parties who engaged in repeated and especially the claim that "the majority takes all."
But the reasons for which Parliament has ceased to legislate and the government acts only through the Minister of Economy has nothing to do with populism, have if anything to do with events dating back more institutional.
And most so far, I stress so far, we have an arsenal of counter enviable , and that in most cases they do their job, by the President of the Constitutional Court, judges from the local governments, independent authorities to Bank of Italy, not to mention the President of the Chamber.
We have thus the institutional point of view, a very confrontational democracy, not a democracy that is slowly turning off (the thesis of the system) or who is prey to the popular will of the usurpers.
Restore sense of proportion compared to what is happening would be if we are thankless job in the media environment. But at least between us we may ask: can the two theories in public discourse continues to monopolize the attention, while not at all reflect reality? It would not be pressing from facts, rather than fairy tales?