Italy’s crisis: Wouldn’t it be simpler if the government simply dissolved the people and elected another?

That would be an option, or an Acropolis-like visit of Mutti that the Greeks had the privilege to visualize. Life has gotten tougher in the EU with this Italian Job and to spice it up even more, Spain has lost its Leader yesterday.

Add to that the tariffs Trumble in the Jungle coupled with Schauble's, no wait, Olaf Scholz's Black Zero and the Eurozone again is a bastion of stability and powerfully united to hike up the tariff on Bourbon and California bath salts. Take that, America.

Here is a good article about democracy in a union under the ceptre of ze Germans.

The decision of Italy’s President, Sergio Mattarella, to veto the appointment of Paolo Savona as Italian finance minister has sent the country into a political crisis. Bob Hancké argues that although Mattarella was legally within his rights to do what he did, his actions not only raise questions about democratic legitimacy, but are almost certainly not in Italy’s long-term interests.

On Sunday, the Italian President, unhappy with the finance minister that the almost new Italian government proposed, decided to blow up the democratic process rather than accept the outcome of the March election. Just to be absolutely clear: President Mattarella was well within his rights to do what he did – it is the constitutional duty of the President to protect Italy’s wider interests. And some of the policies, economic and otherwise, of the populist coalition between the Lega and M5S, as well as the main characters in the story, do not and did not inspire confidence.

But there are two problems with President Mattarella’s actions. The first is that it is never a good thing in a democracy if an indirectly elected politician throws out the plans of directly elected politicians. Whatever we may think about the almost-new-coalition-government, they had a more or less coherent programme and a functioning majority – or better, perhaps. Neither were any worse than most of the forty-six post-war Italian governments, and definitely less lugubrious than the Berlusconi administrations of the past 25 years. And it shows little political sense to put hope in the Italian people to elect a different government in five months’ time, after a government of technocrats will have imposed more austerity to calm financial markets.

Full article here.