ROME (ITALPRESS) – Parliament, not only the place where laws are made but also a powerhouse of culture, documentation, information and, why not, a tool to de-mystify fake news that can deflect popular sovereignty, at the center of a debate at the Italian Cultural Institute in London. The director of the London Cultural Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Francesco Bongarrà, discussed it with Giovanni Rizzoni, former head of the Study Service of the Chamber of Deputies, Nicola Lupo of LUISS University and two professors from SOAS University of London, Peter Leyland and Emma Crewe. The occasion was the presentation of Giovanni Rizzoni’s monograph “Parliamentarism and Encyclopaedism,” recently published by Hart, one of the largest legal publishing houses in the United Kingdom. A volume in which Rizzoni questions the meaning and significance of parliamentary democracy today and the new challenges and tools available to parliaments.
“Political competence is even more important today than in the past. This requires serious study and analysis. We must avoid relying too much on our knowledge and analysis of the reality around us on volatile information media such as information technology. Disinformation is one of the greatest risks to democracy,” Rizzoni explained to a large and qualified audience of Italian and British jurists and parliamentary officials. Concepts also reiterated by the secretary general of the Chamber of Deputies, Fabrizio Castaldi, who attended the Belgrave Square meeting remotely. “This volume,” explained the head of the Montecitorio Administration, “has the merit of having highlighted the relationship between the new tools of law-making and new technological skills and the parliamentary structure that is at the heart of democratic decision-making systems.
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