I was 32 years at Mediaset. I was hired in 1988 by Galliani and Berlusconi. I have been a reporter, correspondent, editor, anchorman, columnist. A long beautiful story marked by many media and political battles, first and foremost, from Tangentopoli onward, the one about the relationship with the judiciary, or rather with an ideologized part of it. Obviously, a piece of the Italian Mainstream argues that the problem was Berlusconi and not the overwhelming power of the judges, but with this tirade of threatened autonomy lies another truth that goes beyond the single political figure who ended up in conflict.
After Tangentopoli, the relationship between the powers of the Republic was no longer in balance. That balance that the constituent fathers saw not only as a guarantee that a dictatorship would not return, but also as the cornerstone of the functioning of a democracy. In recent days, the ruling that the 14 immigrants brought back to the center the government wanted in Albania has reacerbated that wound. But who is to govern the immigration issue, the executive and the parliament or the judiciary by strokes of more or less ideological judgments?
Meloni promises battle by decree, judges feel attacked and call for cover from the head of state who calls for calm and dialogue. But there can be no more dialogue. The ever-postponed organic justice reform must be done and politics must recover, without overdoing it, its primacy in managing the problems of the polis. This is the mandate given to it by the citizens. Any interference, net of violations that always need to be punished, agrees to be rejected.
How will it end? There are the historical conditions, and the numbers, for the long season of Tangentopoli to go bye-bye. It takes, however, as the singer Carboni used to say, a beastly physique…
The article Politics and justice, the showdown comes from TheNewyorker.
