Sergio Bindi 

Recent elections for provincial councils replacement have registered a very low electors percentage turnout, nearly by 58%; a survey reveals that the 57% did not know either the name of candidates. These data bring to some considerations about disaffection of citizens toward politics. The same data, with even lower percentages, seem to be the normal trend for the other European countries, as Germany and France, as well as United States. Only motivations are quite different. For the mentioned countries the reason of a so large abstentionism is the conviction that vote does not change anything and the very boring sexy gate proves it. In Italy the main cause is the indecorous spectacle offered by the “sudden reversals”. Parliamentarians who, once elected, do not have scruples jumping the fence, breaking the engagement with electors. Furthermore the government body arising from these jumps, evidences coalitions' underlying divergences, both programmatic and ideological, so that every day there's somebody that threatens the fall of the government, this way determining a series of compromises, useful only to keep chairs but not to govern. The well-known “sudden reversals” arise indignation of who has voted those who act 'sudden reversals'. Last days, while I was required by the director to send the article, since the magazine is already going to press, there's a great agitation, since the admission, by the Constitutional Court, of the referendum aiming at the abrogation of the current electoral law. At the same time, the prompting of the lists for the European elections has brought the direct clash between Cossiga and Prodi, D'Alema arbitrating it . The true is that the parties risen from the diaspora of the Christian Democrat Party are at all in great ferment. The “sudden reversals' makers following the Cossiga policy are not any more available to follow the leader's strategy, while the secretary Mastella tries to recover the agreement with his teacher De Mita to control hawks and doves. So the political situation is on move and the current arrangement is very unstable. Each component feels the terrible weight of being at government with the other partners. It is hard for true Christian democratic sing ' the red flag will win ', also during the next 2000 and it's more difficult for ancient communists to sing 'White flower'. How much it must be done for a chair! Power is a strong elixir, but I don't think that this alliance can be deemed, from both parts, as strategic and that it can endure. So it is necessary to find an alternative way so that a centre mediates the natural contraposition of Right and Left. This is the program of the centre federation launched again these days by the risen Christian Democrat Party of Flaminio Piccoli. We will see the development of this situation next days.

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