The center-right won the regional elections by a landslide Basilicatawhere the governor Vito Bardi he was reconfirmed for another five years at the helm of the region with a large majority of support (56.63% of the votes against 42.16% of the left-wing challenger Piero Marrese). Forza Italia has shown that it is strong even without the Cavaliere, and indeed that it enjoys excellent health. The field has narrowed even more, with the 5 Stars suffering a real debacle compared to the previous time. As you can see, the political data that emerged from last Sunday’s elections are many and interesting, all deserving of a front page headline.
Future, the official body of the Italian Episcopal Confederation, however, made a different choice, against the tide: it put the elections in Basilicata at the start (many newspapers instead relegated the news to the interior), but highlighted a further element, that is, the high level of abstention, which reached 49.8% of those entitled to vote. In truth, that of the bishops’ newspaper is not a non-conformist choice in the high sense of the term, but rather a political choice in all respects. Which clashes a lot with him appeals that the newspaper himself continually warns against politicizing the electoral consultations. And it is also a choice that does not do the reader a good service because it tends to hide the relevant elements of correct information, starting with the name and surname of those who won and those who lost which cannot certainly be the “Mrs Abstention”.
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The low turnout at the polls, however one judges it, is nothing new, having now been a constant in all elections for a few decades now. Journalistically speaking, it does not constitute news, although for historians and experts it is certainly a phenomenon worthy of study and in-depth analysis. From a liberal point of view, abstentionism cannot even be considered reprehensible, as it is a choice of equal dignity compared to that of those who go to vote and express their preferences at the polls. In essence, it is a way of making a judgment on candidates that must still be respected, contrary to what people think democratic theory, non-democratic, which pervades our consciences and constitutes a cornerstone of national ideology. Giorgio Gaber was wrong: freedom is not participation, but first of all the ability to be able to completely control oneself!
In any case, in the case of Avvenire, the entirely political intent is to hide the crisis and difficulty of the left, to which, no one knows how or why, a significant part of the Italian episcopal body has long since devoted itself. Just look a little further down than the main title to notice the political leanings of the bishop’s newspaper, now directed by Marco Girardo. Always on the front page, the interview with is recalled Marcus Tarquinius which occupies a large space on the internal pages. In it, the person who was the newspaper’s director until recently makes his decision official candidacy in the next European elections in Democratic party by Elly Schlein. Insisting on the certainly not commendable performances of the center-left would certainly not have been a good gift for the person you want to boost! Nor, we can add, for the party of reference of those Catholics to whom their faith should inspire very other and different political choices.
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The point lies precisely here: how can one ally oneself, to the point of becoming a megaphone, with a party that has a program that is in antithesis with the fixed points of Catholic morality, starting with the right to life which is proper to everyone? Of a party that denies the family, as well as the existence of two sexual genders, that exalts abortion as a “right”, in essence that denies the cornerstones of Christian anthropology? Tarquinius, in his interview, he admits the difficulty, which he judges to be momentary and not structural as it actually is, between the Catholic world and the Democratic Party. However, he does not hesitate to add that, having had several offers, he did not have a minute’s doubts in accepting the one from the Democratic Party because this party would be the only one today to preserve spaces for positions that are not approved or mainstream (Tarquinio uses precisely this term) . To which a question arises: but what world he lives in Tarquinius? What do you see, or not see, about actual reality?
His statements, more than a paradox, seem to be the fruit of a hallucination, with all due respect, especially if among the followers of a culture not mainstream he includes, as it should be, Catholics. What space would there be for Catholics in a party that in Verona, for example, a few weeks ago asked for the resignation of the group leader in the city council who had voted for a anti-abortion motion? The Democratic Party today is a party in which the Catholic component has no weight, neither in fact nor from a cultural point of view. Those Catholics who persist in remaining, rather than “adults” as they once called themselves, appear to have become completely blind and unaware.
