Enrico Berlinguerthe popular leader of the Italian Communist Party, under whom the PCI reached its all-time highs, was known by the nickname of ‘ass of iron’ because it exhausted the negotiations to the limit and he did not get up from his chair until he got the agreement, convinced that this was the main virtue of a politician: the ability to negotiate. Thanks to that indomitable resilience, he achieved a mythical compromise with the Democrats. The ethics of responsibilityd, therefore, passed over the ethics of convictions and, with this principle of Weber as a head, Berlinguer made history.
It could be said that currently there are also many ‘culo di ferro’ among our leadersbut unfortunately the term does not refer to the superhuman virtue of negotiating until exhaustion, but to the subhuman sin of get stuck in the chair of power and not come out even with forceps. Neither ethics of responsibility nor ethics of conviction, but simple ambition, vanity and arrogance.
The latest example of this fusion between the ass of a public office and his honorable chair has been carried out by Mrs. Laura Vilagra, ‘councillor’ of the Presidency and political responsible for the enormous fiasco of the oppositions that has affected more than 13,000 opponents. This is a monumental scandal that directly affects the very meaning of power, because, if a government is incapable of organizing oppositions for public officials, it should not be able to manage the logistics of a ladder of neighbors.
In addition, the formula is well invented, not in vain The selectivity is organized every year, which mobilizes thousands of students. And it is done with volunteering and extra payments, which They neither cost a million euros nor do they need a foreign company that manages them It is no longer just a question of a government that seems to have no project or alliances. It’s about a Government that does not govern, and when he has a complicated responsibility, he looks outside for someone to do the job he doesn’t dare. And from here, to the catastrophe…
Scapegoat
But things get worse when the reaction of the person in charge, in this case the ‘councillor’ Vilagrà, is not that of a public office, but of a political commissioner: the pertinent responsibilities are not assumed, the fan is turned against the company and the first scapegoat they find is sought, to make him pay the piper. By the way, in this case, the scapegoat has been firecracker: cutting the throat of a general director who had been there for four months and who had no responsibility for outsourcing the call for oppositions. Ridiculous, if it weren’t unpresentable.
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And the statements of the ‘councillor’ herself, assuring that “she is not one of those who leave when there are problems”, is also a monument. What has not understood this good lady, of what public service means? It is not about selling some kind of pathetic heroics staying in office, but to demonstrate that responsibility is assumed by just abandoning it. Apart from the deplorable behavior of the Government, the attitude of the majority of the opposition is also remarkable, which does not call for the resignation of the ‘councillor’, perhaps because the verb resign is not part of its usual conjugation either.
Be that as it may, one for the other, what remains is a Government that has shown a flagrant ineptitude on a subject that touches on the very essence of what it means to govern. It is his original responsibility -as much as there may be other collaterals- for having seriously damaged the rights of thousands of people who have sacrificed hours, studies and illusions to do oppositions that had to guarantee them a job, and now they have been left behind. the weather If a public official does not resign due to a botch as serious as this, when will he? Certainly never, because for many politicians, the concept is not power as a public service, but power as a private service. Only from this perspective of defending party and personal interests, above citizen interests, can it be understood that this ‘councillor’ has not resigned. There are no excuses or explanationsthere is a seriously flawed responsibility that has only one democratic way out: resign from office and leave.