The dual mandate rule? “It is understandable that those who are in their second term today would like to eliminate it. After all, the survival instinct comes from our animal nature, and is irrepressible. But the purpose of every rule, ultimately, is to curb our animal instincts in the common interest. The limit on the duration of mandates is not only a founding principle of the movement, but it has also been a safeguard of democracy since the times of ancient Athens. As I have said several times, it should become a constitutional law, at least for the most important positions”. Thus the M5s founder Beppe Grillo on his blog in a self-interview.
With the limit of the double mandate – Grillo asks himself – isn’t there a risk that skills acquired over the years will be lost? “I had proposed a ‘relay’ idea in which the ‘leavers’ would receive a compensation financed by the ‘entrants’ to ensure the handover and transfer the skills acquired to them.” “Not to mention – he insists – that parliament should first and foremost interpret the will of the citizens, which is much more difficult to intercept when parliamentarians lock themselves away in the building for years. To translate the will of the citizens into law, if anything, legislative offices with good and skilled professionals would be needed competent and not courtiers without art or role, a parliamentarian should be different, that is, to capture and understand the needs of citizens to translate them into political direction, which in turn should be translated into law by capable and competent legislative offices. So much so that we proposed changing the title of parliamentarians from honorable citizens to citizen spokespersons”, he concludes.
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