Letter published in the monthly "Centre" - August 2006
Debate on the future mayoral candidate of the center, the upcoming municipal elections, undergoes a brief setback in waiting the resumption of September, but so far has been quite lively and articulate, both at headquarters and party officials in the local press.
As on other occasions, the discussion seems to focus or, better said, crystallized the names of possible candidates rather than the program that they should offer the electorate. To overcome this impasse was launched the idea of \u200b\u200ba planning conference, to be held this autumn.
The planning conference should, hopefully, to avert the risk of thinking about the candidate before you even think the program. This is because the schemes and political considerations to "draw" the outline of a mayoral candidate, who characterizes his proposal with his personality and political-cultural origin. If it had identified more than one there is always a valuable tool for primary elections.
The speech, therefore, should not be centered on people as such (as a mayoral candidate?), But on how many units the center is able to provide, in order to overturn a local administrative and political situation totally unsatisfactory and asphyxiated. The planning conference of the Centre and any primary, will feed exchange and sharing of ideas on things to do and how to do it, neutralizing the opposition personal and collective psychodrama. Comparison and reflection exorcise the wretched and suicide case, in the center, to appear in any order the appointment election.
seems to me that one of the centrality of local political debate over the relationship of the parties with regard to the community. For this, I try to make an argument
I wonder: is certain that the party is still the most important tool through which to reach the government of a city? I think so, while taking into account the fact that parties are becoming lighter, that is emptied of attendance and participation.
Historically, the crushing of political parties - which, remember, built the Republican and constitutional structure of the country, one of the most solid of the West - led to the establishment and replenishment is not always successful, to political formations. The search for new subjectivities, in some cases even new identities, politics is still in progress. Just think of the Democratic Party or on the opposite side, the party of moderate or populist. The threats to the Constitution and democracy, the sirens of Berlusconi and his associates, destabilization and finally sent to an economy rolls over the past five years have represented a serious threat to the nation. On the outskirts, and Fasano, not that it went better.
But, as I said before, the parties are becoming lighter and less frequented, especially by young people. How to remedy? In my opinion, should make renewed forms of dialogue with everyone, and there are many resources are professional, entrepreneurial, intellectual and moral, both youth and adult. To urge those citizens that seem to dialogue in a quiescent state with respect to matters of "common good" as asleep but, perhaps, waiting to wake up.
What to do? The idea is simple and daunting: to bring together the forces (of party and civic, for instance), fleeing the conflict between politics, lived as a profession, and society perceived as distant from the things of the palace.
The planning conference could be the first step in this direction, trying to make Fasano what has been done in many other towns of Italy. The example of Bari, with Emily, is at hand, although it is not the only one. The policy should be back at practice aimed at integrating the dialectic, so to speak, of "Political" and "civic". Terms in quotation marks because the political and civic elections in the municipalities, are still firmly intertwined, the point is, therefore, to bridge the gap between the parties and the society, can not deny it, in recent years has increased.
In conclusion: build a program to confront the political and administrative, with the aid of a planning conference, but not exclusively, organized by political parties and "civil society", could be a first test. Following identify a mayoral candidate through the instrument of the primaries, if necessary.
Sometimes ideas can be simple though complex construction, but will, however, concentration and commitment. The effort, I think, is primarily a cultural nature: the union is possible if, in the words of Schopenhauer, we think that "the task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen, as to think what nobody has yet been able to think about the things that are visible to everyone. "
Bruno Marchi
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