Politics will have to triumph to overcome vetoed grudges, personal prejudices and mutual revenge and create a political project with the decisive contribution of the respective political cultures
04/01/2024
The Christian Democracy, as everyone knows, closed its doors way back in 1993. But the values, practices, method, style and, above all, the political culture of the Christian Democracy continue to hover and condition the concrete behavior of many political exponents . And in various parties. Except, of course, the populist, extremist and maximalist parties.
Of course, no one thinks of reviving a party that has now been consigned to history and the archives, at least as it was organized in that historical phase of our country. But there is also no doubt that the political culture that inspired that party is by no means archived. And the upcoming European elections represent a tasty event not to regret a party but, if anything, to re-propose the political and cultural reasons for that political project. And this can only happen in one way. And that is, by voting for candidates in the so-called centrist parties that continue to refer to that cultural and ideal heritage. Because precisely around a united political Europe, cohesive and capable of playing a decisive role in the current international context lie the underlying reasons for the principles and values that belong to the history of Christian democrats.
As is equally obvious, these are values, principles and culture that do not have political citizenship in all parties. Certainly not in populist parties – specifically in the populist party par excellence, the 5 Star Movement, and in the Salvinian League – and nor in sovereignist parties such as the Brothers of Italy or in radical and maximalist political forces such as the Democratic Party of Elly Schlein.
Only in centrist or centrist-oriented parties can candidates of Christian democratic orientation be voted for. As long as they are nominated and not obstructed.
Now, it may appear somewhat contradictory and singular that democratic and Christian values win for the construction of a political and federalist Europe and, at the same time, a party – or the party – of reference is consigned to the historical archives. But, be that as it may, there is no doubt that parties are only organizational tools destined, from time to time, to be present or archived. Because what really matters are the programmatic recipe and the political culture which are concretely expressed in the political dialectic.
Lastly, and if these considerations are true and objective, it is equally important that in the aftermath of the European elections – and having taken note of the real electoral weight of the individual centrist formations – the process of recomposing the centrist area will be an indispensable and necessary operation . By definitively and irreversibly overcoming the adolescent phase of politics made up of vetoes, resentments, personal prejudices and mutual revenge.
In short, once again and as always, politics with a capital P and with clarity on the political project and with the decisive contribution of the respective political cultures will have to triumph.
