Italy towards the party oligarchy

The parliament that will be elected by the Italian legislative consultation of March 4, will be the expression of the popular will only in theory. The new electoral law will produce, in fact, a power expressed only by the parties and not by the civil society, with which the political class appears increasingly distant. What is foreshadowed is no longer a democracy, but an oligarchy of parties, as an expression of an increasingly narrow and often family-like dominant class. It is no coincidence that during the discussions for the elaboration of the electoral law that will be applied, there has been a uniformity between parties also of opposing sides to not admit the preferences, which could have given the elector citizen a form, albeit contained, of exercise a right of choice on which people to elect. On the contrary, the parties chose, with methods totally contrary to the democratic spirit, the members of the electoral lists, which were chosen only for their loyalty to the management team. Those that will be constituted will be parliamentary groups that are the expression of a small circle of parties that must always represent in a faithful and non-critical way. On the other hand, the electoral campaign of each training has so far been carried out on unrealistic promises and low-level reciprocal clashes, which have resulted only in pushing more and more citizens out of the electoral consultation. Not for nothing on all sides have we been urged to exercise the right to vote, for fear of abstention, which is announced large, which may not legitimize the vote in a comprehensive manner. The electoral campaign has shown a remoteness from the real problems of the country, which demonstrates the will to reinforce a restricted power justifiable only for the protection of circumscribed interests; hypothesis reinforced by applications for the protection of certain economic and social sectors. These factors, contingent upon electoral consultation, are added to a power that the parties exercise without being framed in legislation that sanctions its democratic functioning, so we are witnessing an overview of the exercise of power that starts from the control of the party system carried out through the exclusive financial power, up to the management that takes place through IT platforms. The classical party that provided for a large peripheral base no longer exists, because it had as a counter-indication the internal dissent, more difficult to contain. The affirmation of the so-called light party has served only to a total control of the ruling classes, which have also become practically the only ones within the political formations. But the detachment and disenchantment of the base also coincided with the increase in abstention, which was certainly formed by the perception of a policy away from the problems of citizens, but also by the lack of that force that was based on volunteering for keep the party active in a local dimension and that it was a force capable of dragging even non-members into the political agony. The destruction of this model, which occurred almost simultaneously on the left, in the center and also on the right, does not seem to have been random, even if it was meant to coincide with the end of the first republic. This was not the case: together with the destruction of the people's party, a phase of denial of the increasingly compressed culture went hand in hand, thanks to what was disseminated by the television medium and by a quality of education in increasingly poor schools. The result is that we wanted to remove the popular class from political life: first indirectly and now with rules that limit the decision-making power of citizens to the choice of the political party, a pre-packaged choice that contains candidates expression of areas other than those where they are eligible and of controversial personalities to whom there is no alternative. An electoral bid is often very inadequate, which justifies abstention and favors the uncontrolled power of the parties, which have now become merely forces expressions of the exercise of an oligarchic power increasingly distant from the democratic intentions of the Italian constitution.