The Italian political system has lived for 13 years in a state of transition, an intermediate period between a first Republic, now consigned to history, and a second not yet begun. The 45 years following the important elections of 18 April 1948 in fact saw the presence in Italy of seven historical parties (Christian Democratic Party, PSI, PSDI, PLI, PRI and MSI), some of which "mass" and others, however, very deeply rooted among the population, who obtained, on average, during the period of almost half a century, more than 95% of parliamentary seats. In recent years, however, the number of parties has grown exponentially and is decreased in inverse proportion to the real representation, both in terms of electoral participation of members and supporters of the same. The political fragmentation has been one of the factors, but certainly not the only one that led to the removal, due to excessive difficulty in understanding by citizens of the positions of the now numerous political forces, of removal of a ' huge audience of voters. In fact, if the so-called First Republic, the number of voters has been growing steadily, as has been the steady decline in absolute terms, the elections of 1994, including the last, fought until the last voting round.
As the Olive Tree alliance led by Romano Prodi and the creation, by Silvio Berlusconi, Forza Italy were the symbols of the years of transition, so the birth and evolution of the Democratic Party of Forza Italy , was as inevitable as the collapse of the DC after the end of PCI, with the confluence of An, a new container conservative mark the final sunset of this long political stage the actual start of the Second Republic dall'oramai mature affirmation of new features leadership. But as
un'americanizzazione a move towards the political system since the decline in electoral participation in both parties, leading to increased political clout of the lobby, and with the emergence of two political forces, merely American-style (Democrats and Conservatives) hegemonic the two sides, in a framework of clearly established now alternation, Italy is not America!
Someone does not recognize it in the two major parties, as in the First Republic was going to swing voters in the aforementioned 45 years, between 30 and 40 percent who did not recognize the Italian democracy and the Italian Communist Party.
If the grid's center-right it is premature to make predictions about who will oppose the emergence of a conservative party, even if from now on you can see a clear vocation for autonomy of the UDC, in the center-left, the most representative case is given just after the birth of a new leftist party that , nell'alveo of what has been the tradition of socialism in Europe and communist socialism in Italy, will contribute to a profound renewal of the political system.
I would love someone who writes in the first place, remember, a few years, this little written that today will be able to view the essay as a mere "political fiction", to see how many of these predictions will actually come to pass, but I am convinced that the path that will lead, in these terms, a new political system in Italy, though long, day in March 2007, has already begun. The President of
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Salvatore Speranza
