The President of the Republic is not the cold “notary of the Republic” that someone would have liked to see in him
We will be happy with the new President of the Republic? This question may sound silly. First of all because we still don’t know who it will be. Then because it is only by seeing him at work, for years, that we will know what to judge of him. Many at first did not expect that Mattarella he would have been one of the best presidents, just as I didn’t expect Scalfaro to be one of the worst.
And yet I have an answer, and I’m not ashamed to get it from a very good joke. Why thehumor is one of the peaks of the human intellect and a great source of truth, as Freud would have said. Here it is: “Deciding means reducing errors to one”.
To decide comes from the Latin decaythat is, to cut away, to separate violently A from B, knowing that, having chosen one path, the other was abandoned. And sometimes we wonder if we are not by chance abandoning the best solution for the worst. This is why deciding is painful. For this reason, sometimes indecision has a long life: in fact, until you decide, you can still choose.
But if this is the case, the only cure for the anguish of the decision is to decide (toh, to decide) once and for all that, having arrived at the choice, if we do not know what to do, it is a sign that the “options” all seem to us. equally plausible e all equally questionable. So why worry so much? To a man who was very undecided between his wife and his mind, I once said: “If you are so undecided, it is a sign that the value of these two women, in your eyes, is more or less the same. So don’t keep them on grill, choose one with the dime. So much your indecision proves that, in any case, you can’t go wrong ”.
This is if we were rational. But “rational“Is not synonymous with”human“. A lady loved to buy clothes and bags but often, on the way home, she regretted the money spent. Human was certain, rational I don’t know.
As long as we talk about a President of the Republic – a character we met in the book on Constitutional Law – we almost imagine a figure between a giant and the statue of a Roman senator. Then when someone is elected President, we realize that he is a man whose past we know and that it would not be easy for us to define a superman.
Here is in what sense deciding is “reduce errors to one“. Since no one, before being elected, has the proportions of the First Citizen, the one who is entitled to the reverential respect of the whole country, all, as soon as they are elected, appear inadequate. “A mistake”, therefore. But let’s remember that we would have said it about everyone else. And let’s remember that, to the test of facts, whoever appeared to us “bad“Could turn out”good“. And viceversa. Furthermore, those who appear frankly inadequate – as Sandro Pertini appeared to me – will probably do no great harm after all. Maybe he will play scopone on the plane, with the journalists, but it is not high treason.
The President of the Republic he is not the cold “notary of the Republic” that someone would have liked to see in him. He even has a duty to make some decisions, particularly in the event of a crisis. And precisely for this reason, because he knows he is under the eyes not only of politicians and all citizens, but also of historians, he is very careful about what he does. And so, on average, he does less damage than Parliament does.
After all, it is natural. The Parliament he continually decides things, and we have said that the more you decide the more “you are wrong”. That’s why in March 2018 we should have been very alarmed (and some of us were) when a third of Italians, no less, sent a crowd of parliamentarians “grillini“In Parliament. Because the Parliament makes the laws, and in fact those gentlemen, in addition to abolishing poverty, have abolished the prescription in criminal law. Thus an already lethargic and sometimes biased justice would have had the possibility of keeping an innocent citizen under criminal charge for life.
We hope the new one will be elected soon President of the Republic. At least, so that we talk about something else. I wouldn’t want the new President to be called “Ugh!”
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