Karl Marx, in one of his many aphorisms, once said that:
"History always repeats itself twice: first as tragedy , the second as farce. "
There is no phrase more suitable to describe the political moment that our country is experiencing.
At this point, the reader is wondering what story I am referring to.
I'm talking about a history never happened.
Let me explain. The story is being repeated in San Marino, as a "farce" is nothing but a rehash with twenty years of delay the end of the First Republic in Italy.
No history of San Marino, but it is as if it were.
policy of the two countries has always been connected in glove. Just look at the changes over time from various parties on the cliff, always careful to remain in the wake of their live across Italians.
The most obvious difference the past two decades, is that if in Italy, between "90 and" 93 we observe the end of a system and the beginning of a new in San Marino no .
On Titan, reshuffle things, change some names, a comma here and there and stop. Nothing more. There'll never need.
But what has escaped the policy of San Marino, is that you can not escape from history. you reach .
And that is exactly what is happening.
San Marino ran the story. The'ha refused . He hid his head in the sand, hoping to get away. But to no avail.
As always, to understand what's happening today on Titan, we must remember the events that led to our Italian cousins \u200b\u200bto so radically change their political system.
Italy at the beginning of the 90s is on the verge of collapse .
It faces a number of socio-political changes that actually cause a change epochal in its political history.
Before that time, the peninsula was in force the law of the Christian Democratic .
With its 35-40% of votes and because of its location in the center, plays a vital role in the formation of parliamentary majorities, formed from time to time coalizioni diverse con i partiti minori, che si riflettevano similarmente sulla composizione dei governi.
Era però un sistema che non funzionava.
L'enorme potere politico della Dc, portò tantissimi enti amministrativi statali e locali ad avere una forte ingerenza nell'economia della penisola. Le partecipazioni pubbliche erano all'ordine del giorno e, contemporaneamente, il capitalismo italiano stentava a svilupparsi.
I gruppi di potere si restringevano sempre di più, erano sempre le stesse persone che comandavano, favorendo in questo modo corruzione e clientelismo.
Questa situazione, fu sfruttata da molti partiti per finanziarsi e da vari loro esponenti per arricchirsi. La spesa pubblica andò fuori controllo , e il debito pubblico volò oltre il 100% del PIL.
Fu l'inizio della fine del vecchio sistema.
The trouble for the old political class, in fact, were just begun.
The wave created by the economic crisis that was sweeping the country, was going to have new thrusts. Even on a social level. The end of communist ideology and the decline of the Catholic subculture, brought the "old" DC to confront an electorate that was not the same.
to give the final push for change, however, thought the judiciary.
On February 17, 1992, began the investigation Judicial "Clean Hands " on the system of bribes, which involved many members of all major parties.
The enormous loss of credibility suffered in particular by the forces of the majority parties, led them to an irreversible crisis, until the dramatic dissolution of the DC and PSI, respectively the largest and oldest of the Italian parties.
In subsequent elections "in 1992, the Christian Democrats won a record low of votes, and April 18, 1993, following a referendum with over 30 million votes, the Houses resolved the so-called "Mattarellum", the new electoral law introduced the mixed majoritarian system.
These new laws, in addition to the gravity of the crisis that was destroying the party, parliament and the government, urged the President of the Republic (Oscar Luigi Scalfaro) to dissolve the Chamber and to hold elections for the March 1994, sanctioning the de facto end of the First Republic and the beginning of a new course.
Overwhelmed himself in short, the system had to change.
same period, San Marino things go differently.
Even in the ancient land of liberty to lord it is the Democrat Party, which is imposed by the same methods that we saw in Italy.
Similarly, governments are and unstable coalition with the Christian Democrats of San Marino which, thanks to its share of votes, has more often on the side of the knife handle.
The story, however, is not the same.
The wave overwhelmed with so much momentum the Italian political system, he left almost unscathed San Marino. Here things have not changed.
It was the First Republic , strong economy that flourished instead of collapsing (not sure due to increased economic productivity), and with the complicity of a system land, in front of the same misdeeds that seen in Italy (cronyism, corruption and government spending without limits) did not blink.
The reason for this lack of change, with hindsight, has an explanation. If in Italy, the population felt teased and cheated , to the point of the protests also to the blatant political leadership, in San Marino, the system was installed so that its defects passed in second floor.
The high quality of life guaranteed by a series of privileges premises had in fact, the effect to thwart any recrimination. Allowing the "first republic of San Marino, to continue undisturbed power to administer a bigger and bigger.
Now back to our days, because as I said at the end the bill is paid .
San Marino, has come a dead end. Today, in the midst of an unprecedented economic crisis, we discover (but not those suspected ?) As politics and finance have developed over the years illegal plots, even at the cost of coming to terms with people close to organized crime .
has hit bottom.
Pensare di cambiare con proclami o con lodevoli iniziative di singole persone è irrealistico . Oggi piuttosto, a distanza di vent'anni, ci sono gli elementi per vedere sul Titano la stessa onda, che a suo tempo travolse in Italia un sistema politico-economico vecchio e corrotto .
Un'onda che deve saper modernizzare prima di tutto il sistema normativo sammarinese.
Too many in fact, the dysfunction of a country that has lost the meaning of concepts such as justice, economic development, territorial and international politics.
The same electoral system in recent years has shown all its inadequacy, leading to an exaggerated number of political parties in a state of only 32 thousand inhabitants.
Not to mention the justice system too often disarmed before financial and administrative irregularities.
"For a firm to do well, moves in progress, in the exaltation of family values, the spirit of good friendship, because they thrive without conflict between the various subsidiaries, in the serene way to start towards a better tomorrow, just that everyone does his duty. "
-Giovanni Falcone
It 's time to do .
SM
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