Italian politics has spent years searching for an anti-system option that frees it from the messes of the traditional center-right and center-left. the drama is that the Government of Italy is a shredder of Adanist options. Giorgia Meloni was already a minister under the orders of who will now be her most decisive coalition partner, Silvio Berlusconi, who, in turn, came to power as a reaction to the famous tangentopolis, the corrupt plot resulting from the so-called historic compromise, a system of shifts and distributions very similar to that of Spain in the 19th century. The Italians presume to make the country function outside the State. There is something of exaggeration, but the truth is that in difficult moments they have unorthodox survival mechanisms.
The Meloni thing could be an ordeal if its new partners had the possibility of making an alternative majority with the PD of the resigned Enrico Letta. But they are tied hand and foot to it. That doesn’t mean they make it easy for you. Meloni’s is an evanescent vote and the one that the polls weaken, Berlusconi and Salvini will drop it as Conte has dropped Draghi. Italy is not afraid of being left without a government and instability does not deserve the punishment of the voters.
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Meloni would do well to carefully observe what is happening around her. Great Britain, after playing for decades with the fire of leaving the EU, is experiencing these days the troubles of Brexit with a collapse of the pound sterling that cracks the Conservative Party. Poland, Meloni’s only friendly government within the EU, finds itself mired in the contradiction of having encouraged anti-European sentiment and now depending on its partners to spend the winter while feeling the vertigo of Putin’s nuclear threat.
Populisms serve to vent but never fix anything. Britain is no better off now than it was before leaving the EU. Poland could be invaded right now if she wasn’t in the EU and NATO. Yes, tolls are paid for being within the system. And, often, the putrefaction gives off a stench that makes one forget the benefits it provides. Pointing out the pestilence may serve to oust some parties from power, but once they are gone, reality is stubborn and will now haunt Meloni.