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Saturday, July 4: MZ Galleria Cremona in

warn all users of the blog Saturday, July 4, from 11 to 17, Cremona Zero Movement will attend a banquet at the Gallery on April 25, to continue collecting signatures against the dictatorship and for the bank distribution of information material aimed at raising awareness about the issue of economic crisis.
During the banquet there will be a distribution FREE de The Voice of the Rebel, a monthly information by Massimo Fini.

We wait.

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Electoral Referendum sur la loi: les ont-ils valdôtains the 'droit politique' à voter?

tomorrow and after tomorrow, Sunday 21 and Monday, June 22, the Italian electors are to vote yes or no to t kings referendum questions concerning the electoral law for the Italian Parliament . As part of Valle d'Aosta of the Italian state, the Valle d'Aosta Valle d'Aosta and have all the constitutional and legal rights to go to the polls to respond to the consultation.

Anyway, I have a question - provocative, of course - a political : Since the result the referendum will not affect in any way the electoral system in force in VdA (which is and will remain, in particular, a pure majority system), is it politically correct and acceptable for Valdostane vote for this referendum?

Let me explain in more detail with an example. Suppose quorum of 50% +1 is joined with a minimum difference , say about 50,000 ways: we could probably argue that the electorate Aosta, where the participation in the region to the consultation is at or more than the standard, has a decisive influence on an issue that does not look directly . In other words, the Aosta Valley could be responsible for changing the electoral law for the Italian Parliament, but without any direct effect on regional politics.

Valdostane course we have the right and duty to vote , particularly because the outcome of the referendum could affect the formation of the Italian parliament and government, areas which look directly VdA too. The Aosta Valley, therefore, have all rights (legal, political, moral) to go to the polls. But what I want to do is focus on problem of asymmetry in Italian institutional . It is, in other words, the problem of West Lothian (West Lothian Question ) , raised about thirty years ago by Scottish MP Tam Dalyell . Without going into details - it would be a long and complicated discussion - as I want to emphasize, along with the referendum question, whenever a parliamentary Aosta (or Sicily, Sardinia, Trentino, the South Tyrol and Friuli Venezia Giulia) vote in the Senate or the House of Deputies on a question which is, in its respective region, local jurisdiction (eg, school), makes a decision that will have virtually no effect on his electoral district. Is it correct and acceptable for a system of parliamentary democracy?

So this is a typical problem of asymmetry of federation (the Canadian case is emblematic), political philosophy and legal, but also an open question in the Italian institutional framework.

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After the EU elections - Some Proposals for the Future of Democracy in the European Union

Ten days after the EU elections the political debate has quickly shifted from the concerns on the low electoral turnout (43.07%), to the decision over the new presidents of the Parliament (EP) and of the Commission (the latter will surely be the incumbent president Barroso). However, this lack of trust and interest showed by the European electors is extremely worrying - especially if we consider the progressive decline since the first elections in 1979 - must be better analyzed and faced with concrete proposals. Actually, it's an incredible paradox that the more the powers and competences of the EP have increased, the more the electoral turnout has decreased.

In my opinion, the most relevant causes of the disappointing turnout can be listed, randomly, as follows:

1. Absence of an European demos : Europe is made of a sum of several demoi (not necessarly identified with the current member States). As a result, people cannot feel completely involved in the process of political and social integration of the EU, also because national politicians and media tend to 'nationalize' the issues debated during the electoral campaign : consequently, there's an institutional, political and cultural lack of interest for the European elections;
2. Absence of pan-European parties, candidates and lists : member States remain central in the political debate and, as mentioned above, the issues debated during the electoral campaign are mainly focused on national problems;
3. Disaffection towards politics, demagogy : in this sense, the current economic crisis has played an important role. People see politicians as sort of 'distant entities', far from the reality they have to face: thus, they avoid going to polls. Another implication is the concerning growth of ultra-right parties in several European countries (above all in the UK, Austria, Nehterlands and Hungary).

How to face these problems? How to relaunch the process of political integration of the EU based on democratic participation and centrality of the Parliament? I hereby suggest some 'federal' solutions:

1. Parties must be registered at a EU level and allowed to present lists wherever they want in the Union , bypassing the national frontiers. This would force parties to set programs, lists and electoral campaigns on a continental base , dealing with issues that can be widely understood and in the interest of the whole Union: hence, it would eventually relaunch the process of growth of the EP, which would be central in the political debate;
2. Electoral districts have to be chosen by the EP itself . It is actually absurd and counterproducing that the electoral districts are gerrymandered by the member States: the EP has the political and moral right to decide the allocation of its members, overpassing the old-fashioned mentality laying on the centrality of the member States. In this sense, electoral districts could be organized and drawn on the base of common interests and cultural proximity (that's the case of the Euroregions). I make a simple example which regards me directly: the Western Alps' semi-arch, including Aosta Valley, part of Piedmont and Liguria (Italy) and part of Rh ô ne-Alpes (France) can be set as a sole cross-border electoral district;
3. Parties must make clear before the elections who is their respective candidate for the presidency of the EU Commission (to be renamed, according to the Treaty of Lisbon, 'Presidency of the European Union'), who, in turn, has to be directly responsible for the chose of the commissioners, without any 'suggestion' from the governments of the member States;
4. Brussels has to be the sole seat of the EP , as federal capital of the Union (see my previous posts: 1 and 2 ). It is a paradox and a huge waste of money that the second largest Parliament in the world has two seats: reducing the expenditures of around 250 million Euros will give an important signal to all Europeans.

So, these are Proposals my, my ideas. Does Anybody Have Something to add, to criticize, to Propose? More Than I'm of course open to discussion!