Qurinale, Sergio Mattarella’s end-of-year speech
The best thing about the seven-year Sergio Mattarella to the Quirinale is his departure from the scene, announced in time in widespread disbelief and solemnly confirmed in the sober and severe farewell speech of December 31st, with great legal scruple and institutional sensitivity, in the most typical style mattarelliano. Mattarella he does not grant an encore, even though he is loudly requested by the party system interested in removing more than one chestnut from the fire: it would have been for him, a scrupulous jurist and constitutionalist, a real shame.
It was not easy to do the boss of the State in such complex years, between party crises and endemic political instability, to which was added the unprecedented scourge of the epidemic Covid. The president did his best without protagonism and without realizing miracles, in line with the mediocre times of the political-institutional system. Many party exponents would make false papers to go in his place at Colle. Instead, he leaves the table, giving a style lesson to a politics that has lost style completely. It won’t be easy to replace it. And maybe we will happen to regret this old Sicilian Christian Democrat.
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