Sergio Mattarella has taken on February 3 the position of the twelfth President of the Italian Republic. In his speech before Parliament (supplemented by regional delegates) who elected him, the new mayor has devoted little or nothing to the palace and to the powers of the Republic, simply recalling the role that the Constitution assigns to the Italian head of state compared to other institutions . “The head of state must be and will be – has committed the president – an impartial referee, players help him with their honesty.” This simple, almost trivial, calling the constitution was for much of the title of the great media discourse on the beautiful country of Mattarella. And most commented on and applauded by politicians and political analysts. But the speech of Mattarella lasted thirty-one minutes while the time devoted to the powers of the building was less than sixty seconds. The remaining half hour and broken Mattarella has dedicated to anoth er: the implementation in the everyday life of the constitutional rights of citizens, of which the president wants to try to be a guarantor. Banality even this? Up to a certain point, if it was that Mattarella want to get serious.
The PREDECESSORS You will understand soon enough from his first acts, according to which they are directed to dismantle or consolidate the impressive structure of parallel government that was born at the Quirinale and that, in particular in the nine-year presidency Napolitano, has made a real new political power in fact like the Government and Parliament. Perhaps even superior to them because not liable to any person for their actions, except for extreme cases to limit the impossibility of proven against the Constitution and / or high treason on the part of Mr. President. The political power of the Quirinal and the structure that was born to exercise it – and that is rooted in a constant crescendo, from Sandro Pertini to Giorgio Napolitano, via Francesco Cossiga, Oscar Luigi Scalfaro and Carlo Azeglio Ciampi – is now a machine that runs and drives, parallel to the Government and Parliament, foreign policy, and internal security, to justice a nd even the legislative. Offices, people, officers and directors of the highest level of the President are subject to the fact that today exert remarkable political powers and is now to decide how to handle Sergio Mattarella. If you will follow the footsteps of his predecessors – especially the last – is unlikely to be consistent with its policy commitment to hold the presidency of the Republic above and out of politics every day of the building.
The SYSTEM If you have the strength to dismantle the massive and powerful political apparatus of the Quirinal or convert as many offices for the concrete realization of unrealized constitutional rights of citizens (in the study, to health, to equal access, the fight against exclusion and discrimination, just to stay at some of the quotes made by Mattarella in his inaugural address) will determine a tear strong against trend, now also entered the constitutional doctrine, to assume the presidency of the Republic as a case almost unique in the world of “kingdom Republican”: a system of fact-like presidential grafted on a parliamentary form of government, without any of the balances and limits for President typical of presidential systems. The debate is open and is expected Mattarella immediately put to the test. In many and conflicting hopes and goals, rather than keep the spotlight focused on the Quirinal. It is not by chance that in a few wee ks of life among the insiders are doing much to discuss the book “The King of the Republic, chronicle constitutional presidency” Giorgio Napolitano “(Piles publisher, 150 pages, 18 euro, in January 2015), written by constitutionalist Gino Scaccia, professor of public law at the University of Teramo and professor of constitutional law at LUISS University of Rome, and from 1996 to 2013 Consultant of the Constitutional Court. The title of the book contains the message content in a rigorous scientific analysis on the profiles of strict constitutionality of the acts and decisions of Giorgio Napolitano.
THE BOOK The essay, while not disregarding the ‘there is a “reason of state” that has motivated an expansion of presidential powers during novennato just ended, but doubts that these powers to return to their original riverbed. And with that belies the clichés that wants the political powers of the president to extend and shrink like an accordion according to the person who embodies the institution, concluding that in the rooms of the Quirinale is materializing, step by step, tear after tear, a Re Republican. That will now Mattarella? The first choice was dedicated not only sober but also a narrowing. Did close the sumptuous apartment Ramparts del Quirinale, did reopen after the first three years by Giorgio Napolitano and Mrs. Clio to go live in the much smaller (about 110 square meters) and more suitable for use in the guest hall Channel , adjacent to the offices. The same apartment in which they leaned to the palace Carlo Azeglio Ci ampi and woman Franca, when they did not return in the evening in their home in Rome. Fixed home it’s time to think about the office.
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