WORLD WORLDWIDE ITALY News Journal Update - (en) Italy, Galtea FAI: Beyond the smoke of the elections (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Almost 48% of those entitled to vote and residents of Catania did not go to vote

in the municipal elections. Compared to the municipal past (2018), people who
abstained increased by 1%. ---- This increase has been a cause for complaint on
and off social media. But what exactly are we complaining about? ---- We live in
an economically, socially and culturally impoverished local context where
evictions are a daily problem, we work or live from day to day and subsidies and
incomes (NASPI, RdC, PdC etc) do not compensate for the expenses that must be
incurred ( especially in an area where inflation is high).
Over the years, the institutional parties have engaged in the electoral struggle
or, better to say, in appearing in the city council. The game played by them was
mere representation and delegation, where they tried to juggle between the
"beggar" who saw their job lost due to relocation and those who, as a company,
attempted to enter and/or wanted defend one's position within the world of
national and European procurement and funding (PON-FESR and/or PNRR).

This desire to juggle between the two sides (beggar and company) within a system
of powers, objectively speaking, always benefits the part that has a large
disposable income. Political voting becomes a purely economic matter devoid of
its presumed ideological or civic meaning: whoever goes to vote does so to have
an economic crumb (money or precarious work), political representation and/or a
paved road for contracts, permits, orders and so on.

The depoliticization thus created is useful to the system itself as it makes that
part of the impoverished population accept fatalism and living from day to day.

Thus economic entities such as:

-the uncle from Australia (Ross Pelligra) who, bringing prestige to Calcio
Catania, actively collaborates with his friends from the National Association of
Builders in planning building speculations (at the same time twisting those "four
beggars" who, with the faith as fans that distinguishes them, they go to support
the local football team (at home, away and in training in Torre del Grifo and/or
in Ragalna));

- Confcommercio, Compagnia delle Opere and Sicindustria, engaged in territorial
incentives for tourism, agri-food and the upgrading of logistics and road
infrastructures (roads and port);

they can thrive and further destroy the lives (physically and mentally) of
individuals and further disrupt a heavily cemented territory.

Depoliticization, as an integral part of the system of existing powers, must be
overcome.

Abstentionism, in this sense, will be an attack on the principle of authority and
delegation and, at the same time, will lay the foundations for the construction
of a collective autonomy totally different from the current model which is
leading us to self-destruction.

https://gruppoanarchicogalatea.noblogs.org/post/2023/05/29/oltre-il-fumo-delle-elezioni/
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