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Radicals in PDL: ancient custom. The mystery is the distrust of the Democratic Party

Andrea de Liberato

Posted September 9, 2009 by Libertiamo.It

- Radicalism is today, to all intents and purposes, a member of the People of Freedom party calling a major, well expressed in the recent elections in which the PDL has proven the strength of a relative majority.
I am referring to the radicalism that has its roots in the party "historic" Cavallotti and which is "born again" in the mid-fifties with the group of The World. The first
liberal reformers and radicals are then Libertia full, just scroll down the curriculum policy of the founders, certainly expressing political views often differ, sometimes very distant from the rest of the PDL. Yet, as pointed out by the same Silvio Berlusconi, a few months ago, during the founding meeting of Liberty, the People of Freedom is very happy, fully expressing the fact his vocation majority to count inside the radical liberal of freedom. Moreover, the positions taken by the most "uncomfortable" by Benedetto Della Vedova (not least, the rather recent Eluana and living wills) were widely reported in the same PDL (come to think first and foremost with Gianfranco Fini) . Liberal ideas, liberal, libertarian are (and, I suspect, will remain) largely minority in Italy, as indeed have always been. In the seventies, in which the radicals got real triumph over divisive issues for the Italian company at the time such as divorce and abortion, the Radical Party barely exceeded one percent of the vote in parliamentary elections. This shows that radical liberalism can be, on some issues subtle problem, a real engine of progress and modernity, because of the strength of its innovative and revolutionary proposals, beyond the electoral success, the occupation of the chairs and put down roots territorial.
's why today that the PDL has damn need of freedom, which brings with it the highest and most noble of the modern right, that of Friedman, Hayek, von Mises, and expressed by Benedetto Della Vedova (Antonio Martino and) a very liberal parliamentary representation. The same electorate
radical, always positioned on a line between right and left, was much larger and nel'96 in '94 (when the radicals competed in elections as allies of the then House of Freedoms) coming to pass easily 3% while the rate increased in electoral terms was paid by the turn of the socialist Rosa nel Pugno (who picked up roughly, in percentage terms the same consents obtained from the recent European Bonino List). This
Berlusconi, Fini and the entire PDL know this very well and were able to profit from the reformist and liberal culture of that part of the world further away from the liberal-radical, liberal policy to the next, already fully embraced by the Radical Party in the nineties (when spoke of "turning liberal" radicals).
addition to the PDL in Italy there is another major party to call (in this case so-called) majority: the Democratic Party, but formal enormously radical.
This is a difficult relationship that is present at the birth of the PD, when Marco Pannella, to do honor to his story (he had hoped for years the birth in Italy of a Democratic Party on the U.S. model) consistently asked to run for office. Request that was promptly rejected by the ruling class piddina, like that of Antonio Di Pietro, and a few years later, Beppe Grillo.
remains a mystery to understand how a majority party that wants to be close the doors to all those who knock on his door, which seem to be guilty of one crime: they can not produce a past ex-communist or ex-Democrat.
Curiously, the original sin of liberalism is forgiven in the juvenile, with the nomination (although hindered, sweaty, contested and painful) of the radical Giulia Innocenzi, but back then it seems predominant over the last European elections, when the Democratic Party has chosen to pay an additional price in terms of declines in support, rather than to live up to promises of a year earlier (with Bettini, who spoke of a million preferences to confirm Pannella in Europe), reaching about "divorce by mutual consent" never happened. The project
Veltroni a large modern leftist party was not to be sneezed at, but, in my view, was not materialized because of the suspicious and biased to various anime closure of the left and in first place in the liberal radicals. A left that will be also fully liberal will be used to express his true vocation: to be a minority, unable to make their own instances, to remain in an Italian context, at least by Carlo Rosselli and Guido Calogero.