WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE ITALY - news journal UPDATE - (en) Italy, FAI, Umanita Nova #38-24: Regime carcasses. Smokescreens to protect a moribund government. (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 In the last regional elections, Fratelli d'Italia lost 41% of the votes

it had in the European elections in June. Despite these data, the polls
continue to give the main force of the government majority with the wind
in its sails. ---- From the 851 thousand votes obtained in Liguria,
Emilia Romagna and Umbria in the European elections, FdI went to 502
thousand votes overall in the recent regional elections, thus losing 349
thousand votes in real terms. If we take this data and relate it to the
votes obtained by Fratelli d'Italia in the three regions in the
political elections (2022) and in the European elections (June 2024)
throughout Italy, we can hypothesize how many votes Giorgia Meloni's
party would receive if the vote were held today. Well, the result is
less than four million, with an estimated loss of around two million and
seven hundred thousand votes.

Why does this loss of consensus not bring down the fascist government?
In fact, the parliamentary opposition is the Government's main ally: it
does not raise fundamental issues such as war policy and adherence to a
competitive foreign policy among the superpowers that translates into
the closure of markets, a decrease in exports and an economic crisis, as
well as the importation of consumer goods and raw materials from
"friendly" countries at exorbitant prices. The CGIL was also pushed to
proclaim a general strike by the growing discontent of workers in the
face of bureaucratic inaction and then to confirm it, despite the call
to Palazzo Chigi, by the success achieved by the grassroots unions in
the school strike (October 31) and the transport strike (November 24).
If Landini wanted to do something concrete to improve the conditions of
the workforce, he could have revoked the signature of the
inter-confederal agreement on wage containment. This agreement led to
wages losing 13% in real terms in the four-year period 2020-2023 alone,
while the dividends of the largest Italian companies increased by 86%,
always in real terms. An explanation for the opposition's behavior can
be found in the meeting between the secretary of the main opposition
force, the Democratic Party, and Mario Draghi, who has been a bit of
everything and is now "advisor" to the president of the European
Commission Ursula Von der Leyen. Mario Draghi will have explained to
Schlein that the European Commission, in order to have the 24 votes of
the Brothers of Italy, would have given up at least 70 votes of the
Socialists and the People's Party. The Meloni government, in other
words, is well regarded in Brussels (where NATO is also based) and
Schlein and the PD must put on a brave face given that to govern in
Italy you go against the wind but not against NATO.

Furthermore, the Meloni government certainly also has admirers beyond
the Tiber. The Vatican hierarchy has cashed in on the proclamation of
pregnancy for others as a universal crime, while the Italian Episcopal
Conference will cash in on the new bonus of 1,500 euros per student
enrolled in private schools.

This also explains the mystery of the polls. On Saturday, November 30,
Nando Pagnoncelli's poll was published in the "Corriere della Sera". The
voting intentions recorded by the poll tell us that the fascist party
grows by one point, reaching 27.7%, while the prime minister drops by
three points in the approval rating. This poll is consistent with others
released before and after the regional elections, which did not register
any substantial variation in the percentage of consensus among voters.

If these polls reflect reality, the stability of voting intentions
compared to the drastic drop in real votes could only be explained by
the increase in abstentions, well above 50% which represents not only a
psychological threshold: with results of this type, the Republic and all
institutions will be delegitimized in the eyes of the majority of the
population and, no longer being able to count on consensus, they will
resort to violence for which they are already preparing the instruments.

It is much more likely, however, that these polls are part of the
smokescreen that is being spread around the government, to hide the real
difficulties it faces and the growing loss of consensus in the country
and to give a crutch to the fearful parliamentary opposition.

Obviously, it is impossible to know how long the government will last.
What is certain is that in the eyes of the majority of the population it
is already a walking corpse, supported only by the privileged classes,
by military circles and by the Catholic hierarchy, and defended only by
the truncheons of the cops.

As far as we are concerned, we will continue our fight against the
policies of poverty and war, against obscurantist and repressive
measures, to overthrow this and all governments.

Tiziano Antonelli

https://umanitanova.org/carcasse-di-regime-cortine-fumogene-per-proteggere-un-governo-moribondo/
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