WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE ITALY - news journal UPDATE - (en) Italy, UMANITÀ NOVA: European, in the moonlight (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Five days have now passed since the 2024 European electoral

consultations and the associated media bandwagon has already been
replaced by the commemoration one year after the death of Berlusconi,
moral winner of the elections with the list that still bears his name
today. ---- But then, thinking with a cool head, who would ultimately
have won these European Championships? ---- Naturally on Monday morning,
as expected, fresh from the counting of the ballots, there was a
succession of declarations from the parties who were competing one by
one for the podium in this electoral round.

Is Giorgia Meloni right to be satisfied when she says she has
reconfirmed her success with her party which, in terms of votes, sees
the leaders as the only exponent who can maintain the result of the
September 2022 elections?

Can Elly Schlein rejoice for having definitively imposed her role as the
highest exponent of the opposition to the current government at the helm
of the PD where, however, she does not have an impact as the only
vote-bearer?

The election of the man of the moment, General Roberto Vannacci, to the
Brussels parliament may be enough to console Matteo Salvini and his
League for a disappointing performance which moves his party even
further towards far-right positions despite losing Pontida in the local
elections?

Can the Greens and the Left be considered a success when they manage to
achieve the double objective of breaking the 4% threshold and bringing
Ilaria Salis to the European Parliament despite feeling lost at the
level of European representativeness?

Legitimate doubts and questions which, however, risk ignoring the
elephant in the room, the macroscopic fact which seems to show no signs
of abating: the only trend which seems to have been incontrovertible for
more than a decade now is that of abstentionism.

The data speaks clearly of those entitled to vote on the peninsula
In Italy only 50% went to the polls in this round
votes. This percentage, analyzed further viz
brought back to regional realities it immediately shows us another
question:

in none of the southern regions did turnout reach 50%
until it reaches its most negative peaks in the two largest islands
(Sicily 38%, Sardinia 36.89%) and in the rest of Italy it does not reach the
even recent voting percentages.

Whether it is reasoned or not, whether it is the sign of disillusionment
towards
a government instrument where representativeness is a value in
disused by the political class, which is a signal towards Europe as it is
seen far from the citizens, there must be abstentionism anyway
evaluated by politics and people.

So what can we attribute this "disaffection" of the Italian people to?
to the instrument of voting? There is a clear disconnect between a class
politician who is no longer able to communicate with his electorate, e
vice versa, an electorate that no longer sees anything in this class
to represent yourself or to turn to and entrust your problems to
daily and long-term.

The cases of Vannacci and Salis are paradigmatic even if opposite
and direct us towards a process of constant "Mediatization" of
Italian politics: parties, programs and policies are no longer voted on
proposals, but the characters, the faces, the symbols of an antagonism
always
more polarized between a right and a left than despite having lost
most of their values remain alive as stereotypes and
specks of themselves, functional to a centralization process
in the figures

singles and a bipolarity that becomes a clash between two social profiles.

Above these questions it should be remembered that the world stands for
slipping into an economic-strategic world war and the nightmare of
wars that kill defenseless civilians, the living conditions in which he
finds himself
the majority of this world, 282 million people (FAO estimates
2023) who suffer from hunger and thirst, the injustices of regimes with
crimes against humanity and anything else that does not make people free
live in this world, must be the true objectives of politics
European but above all of all of us.

In this Europe that is preparing for the market of post-vote alliances,
we are on the side of the exploited people who see the increase
cost of living, the dismantling of healthcare in favor of private
individuals,
as in the United States, a constant centralization of wealth...

...and they also have to endure the electoral litany from one
political class that does not share the objectives with the people and that
he sees the elections as a simple tussle to win a seat
where one can look after one's personal interests, polarizing the debate
public when needed, feeding it only with a dynamic
poisonous now structural that has the flavor of vintage:

pro USA or pro Putin Israel or Palestine?

The only certainty that history can tell us is that the hierarchy
society suppresses the most in favor of those few who with their wealth
can afford not to be afraid of an impending war, of losing their loved
ones to a bomb or even just of not making it to the end of the month.

FAI - Italian Anarchist Federation
  Section "M. Bakunin" - Jesi
  Section "F. Ferrer" - Chiaravalle

https://umanitanova.org/europee-al-chiaro-di-luna/
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