Public shared reflection with Raffaele Cattaneo:
came the news we all seek: the Tar of Lombardy, granting the request suspension, has re-admitted to our President Roberto Formigoni, who finally returns in the running for the elections Regional Authorities of the 28th and 29th March.
Common sense and balance, after days of mobilization subsidiary, have prevailed on the strict application of the form touted in the name of a principle of equality enemy of democracy and freedom. The exclusion of a list in the elections for the regional was in fact made a deep wound to our democracy. "Summum ius, summa iniuria" or "the maximum fee, the greatest injustice," said the Latins. A phrase that fits well the intricate situation that has arisen in recent days and that, in the case of a walkover, would have de-legitimized in fact all the other candidates. There
are some facts worth considering with respect to the measure that allows the list again, "For Lombardy. First, in the order of the Tar emphasizes how the judges did not take account of the decree approved Friday night by the Council of Ministers and, even more significant factor and that more strongly reaffirms the goodness of the decision, once admitted as a list, the Central Electoral Office had no right to put into question the validity of the signatures submitted.
We subtract the critical evaluation than some inaccuracies that were committed in the collection of signatures, but who was in the Court of Appeal was able to ascertain, quite evident that there has been a neutral assessment of the facts, but a treatment in more than one case was not equal for all.
The question of the validity of the lists, has shifted attention to the idea of \u200b\u200bdemocracy that the policy seeks to defend. The one with strong ties to a formal level, not allowing the possibility to amend the mistakes and ensure the proper exercise of democracy in our country, is chained in front of the courthouse, shouting insults and impeachment, President Napolitano, that is defended or attacked on the basis of the advantages of party.
I believe instead that it is to defend another kind of democracy: that kind of substantive work for the common good and guarantees the right of millions of Lombard to express their thoughts and their vote and that this is probably more the fact that there is some round stamp.
The former president of the Constitutional Court Valerio Onida had observed a few hours after the release of the news of the exclusion list Formigoni that "the findings are weak and do not touch the essential formalities, which could be adjusted. Even in the interpretation of reads the common sense is a great policy. "
is clear that the rules should be respected and should apply to everyone, but it is equally true that we must distinguish between the substance of a rule formalism and the eye that can lead to very serious consequences. Our democracy and our civil society should never run out in a simple form of exercise, but eating content deeper based on trust, mutual respect and loyalty.
It is no secret that in recent days have appeared on some sites disturbing images of machine guns and equally eloquent slogan: "Judge me not want to vote? And I begin to shoot '" worthy of the greatest threats of the recent past.
is why it was important to defend the substance of democracy that is surely to be placed within the formalism of abbreviations and stamping round. Without the application of Formigoni, without the list of the PDL and the League, in Lombardy there would be no democratic elections, because the substance and values \u200b\u200bon which our Republic is founded would have been violated as never in the history of our country.
So let us go forward in our campaign - which has never ceased to continue in the experience so beautiful and so true encounter with persons, associations, families, businesses, leaving aside the sterile polemics on formal issues , and go to the substance of our experience, continuing to support our programs, our reasons, the values \u200b\u200bthat we cherish most. Voters must be able to choose, especially through the great instrument of democracy is the vote preferably based on content, ideas and proposals of the person who will represent the Regional Council. Guarantee this right to all, whatever the idea and the party in which you recognize, is defending not only in substance and form in our democracy
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