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post electoral considerations and reflections

NB: Part of criticism had already been written before the election results yesterday

The news was in the air, then no wonder the Democratic Party made by the election debacle, which ultimately has harvest what it has sown in this year of opposition.

But let's order, apart from the increase of votes of right-wing populist, due mostly to a common European wind that there is no need to analyze and that wind is probably a passenger, the reasons for the fall elections are due mainly to a leadership has lost touch with what should be our reference points, first of all the main issues: state secularism, liberalism el'ambientalismo.

The ongoing tussle inside positions to be taken against the interference of the Church in political life, with the positions incomprehensible for a party that wants to be a house of reformists, discussions on living wills and the opposition of most of the party to lay all the initiatives (remember that there were even representatives who voted in favor of the PDL!) for fear of losing the Christian vote, the lack of joint initiatives with associations secularism as the Uaar have completed everything.

Even in the economy has lost sight of the idea of \u200b\u200ba liberal and left liberal to run after groped for the center-right government policy by proposing initiatives to the limits of demagogues such as allowances for the unemployed or income minimum, and when we know that less is more regulated free markets rule alone, moving on from outdated ideas such as the Social Democrats took time to qualify the party by voters as "old" and no longer in step with the times. At the same time, however, should be developed as much as possible the trade fair, the real way to fight such phenomena as mass immigration from poor countries, which despite being a rather marginal phenomenon in Italy is a serious problem in other European countries.

Finally, almost no policy on the fundamental theme of environmentalism, in all these months I have no reports of contacts with associations or joint environmental protection (WWF, Greenpeace, Earth First, Legambiente, etc ...) that have always been our natural reference, a modern left that does not ride is over environmental policy, the only thing done was to present candidates that had the program Defence land and organic farming but little, am appalled by the lack of opposition to the energy policy of the center-right government that continues to rely on old and highly polluting energy such as nuclear power, even here there is hardly raised dissenting voices will protest movements.

Still, the lack of connection among the national leaders and youth movements have prompted many young people not to consider the Democratic Party as a party applies, the student protests last fall has been left alone, the Wave movement had no political support, but how many know the student movements especially Collectives are a natural partner for a party of the center.

What we need now is to finally create a modern center, which is more related to issues concerning the economy and jobs, offering outdated concepts of time but to create a "new left" close to the non- that looks the part of the population culturally progressive and with a degree of higher education. The substantial list of successful and Freedom and the Left List Pannella-Bonino show that the natural outlet for the center is with the Greens and the radicals rather than with the Italy of Values \u200b\u200bor justicialism Catholicism UDC.

In conclusion: state secularism, liberalism, economic, environmental and ecological movements and attention to the challenges of the future for a party.

Fabio Mazzari