Quirinale, Draghi and the match of those who want to stay in Parliament until 2023
In a booklet that was intended as a reading opportunity for those wishing to learn English, there was a unforgettable anecdote. In an area renowned for the quality (and price) of the wine produced, the population was divided between the rich producers and the poor people, so poor that they could not afford a bottle of the famous wine.
So someone in the church proposed: “Before next Sunday we put a barrel in the square and at night, anonymously, anyone who wants to donate some wine to distribute to the poor will pour it into the barrel. I imagine that no one will dare to back down ”. In fact, no one backed down. At night, each one presented himself with his container, towards the precious liquid in the barrel, and disappeared without attracting attention. On Sunday morning, in great pomp, the tap of the barrel was turned on, and pure water gushed out.
The anecdote is quite a apologue than an anecdote. Hypocrisy – wrote La Rochefoucauld – is the homage that vice pays to virtue. But it is a purely verbal homage. If you have to put your hand to your wallet, things change. And if no one controls the real action, things change radically, up to pure water instead of wine.
All this also applies to the election of the President of the Republic. I have never made any predictions about his name, I am so wary of the future, but today, thinking about the history of the barrel in the square, I understand why Mario Draghi has not dissolved the reserve. And because he could hardly be elected President of the Republic.
If tomorrow all the political leaders agreed on the name of Mario Draghi, and proposed him in unison for the position of Head of State, who would dare to get in the way? None, of course. The consensus would be unanimous. Unfortunately, at the time of the vote, the voters vote inside the famous “bier” (the cabin closed to view, in Parliament) and the vote is secret.
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