Centonove
Weekly of Politics, Culture, Economy
N. 5th of February 4, 2011 Page 2
PD, the electoral law will not help you
Francesco Palazzo
on election law on local authorities, which is going to be scheduling ARS, shall be made a few thoughts. One, meanwhile, of a general nature. The bill, which passed the rock of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs of the Sicilian parliament, is only the expression of the majority (PD, MPA, FLI, UDC, API), while the opposition, which was previously the majority (in Sicily we do not miss anything) said that in the classroom will be a battle, indeed even spoke of a coup. Electoral laws covering the entire electorate, should be approved in a shared. Not to shock the majority. Especially if those who want this very law, the PD at the start of term had been nailed by the voters, and severely, in the opposition benches. So far as we are, that in politics, as we know, is substance. We are, however, the content of the law. The lighthouse that inspired is the fact that you want to give voters the opportunity to better choose mayors and provincial presidents. Always on a single card the electorate will be obliged, if he wants to express two preferences, one for the candidate adviser, municipal or provincial, and a candidate for mayor or president of the province. Ends, therefore, the effect of drag, for which, since 1997, just vote for a director and not express any preference for the mayor or the chairman of the province, that the vote should be automatically linked to the aspirant to the highest chair belonged to the coalition of the candidate's adviser. The PD knows that the center has a long history of lists very weak, so no driving while presenting candidates for the seats of mayor or president of the province have almost always had a much greater appreciation of the contenders of the center. Spera, thus rebalancing its fortunes in the local authorities. And now this, expressly stated that in house PD, raises a question mark. This new electoral law will make a weapon choice of more voters, or are partisan reasons? It seems that there are both. But a standard election should never contain an expectation of political change on one of the parties. One thing is the policy that a party entitled to make in the field, another is willing to bend the policy to themselves by building a standard that aims to bridge the gaps of an array. But is it true that only the card with the hope that moves automatically to the candidate mayors or presidents of the province has always penalized the center? Let's see what has happened in Palermo and Catania in two different elections, in November 1993 and November 1997, keeping in mind that the current electoral law was approved in September 1997. Well, Orlando is in Palermo, that White, in Catania, won, not only them but the lists that supported them in 1993 and 1997, with two different electoral laws. In 1993 there was a double board for mayor and council, the board only in 1997 with the drag effect. Why this happened? The explanation is simple. In 1997 he was awarded what was done in the previous term, even if it had changed the electoral law. Voters are not stupid fools, they know very well what they do. And why in the last decade Catania and Palermo have been delivered to the center? Blame the Electoral Law? Do not fool ourselves. E 'success this season virtuous of the two mayors since 1997 was lost on the road, setting the table to free ride four jaws to Berlusconi and climbing companions. Some may object to that, electorally, is a season behind us. What is not so shows him the present. We observe, to give just one example, what happened to Gela in the 2010 elections, held even nine months ago. The run-off came two candidates of the Democratic Party. Go see the lists of votes that supported them. You will realize that the victory was, in spite of the single board and drag effect, which theoretically would favor the center-right, both of the lists of the two candidates. This means that where the center is credible, see sindacature Crocetta in the town of Gela 2003 to 2009, the electorate rewards regardless of the voting procedure. Let me be clear, it is right to provide a wider and more accurate voter can express themselves at the polls. But remember that the Democratic Party political action is one thing, and it is this that generates the victories or defeats, another election rules. Confusing the two moments is not a good sign.
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