Who has lost, who won

The elections have just ended up not only a clear result in favor of a party, the center-right, but also outlined the major trends in Italian society.

The figure obviously more important is the clear affirmation of the People's Freedom led by Silvio Berlusconi.

The Knights, despite owner of television stations, banks, newspapers and publishing, and involved in several judicial processes, in other circumstances that democratic countries would not even be able to submit to the leadership of a government, managed to convince for the third time in fourteen years the Italian people of its good faith and his real desire to get to the service of the country.

Leaving aside the moral and political judgments about it, we must highlight his amazing ability to attract consensus, albeit helped by its dominant position in economy and in the media, especially among the more affluent classes as among those people, who have largely supported the PDL.

As regards his main opponent, Walter Veltroni, the defeat was clear but not humiliating, the PD, in fact, has increased by several points during his pelvis election compared to the 2006 elections, in which DS and Margherita had gathered together much less.

So we must give substance to a Veltroni be successful, very quickly, to give at least on paper a new face at the center-left, allowing him to present at least in part as a break with the cumbersome and unstable majority which supported Romano Prodi.

The birth of the PD and the break with the radical left, perhaps questionable in terms of the old supporters of the center-left, has actually greatly simplified the political framework Italian, until then hostage to the small and very small parties, or even individuals.

But the clarification we feel most obvious ideological. On one side were those who felt that the current capitalist system is to change radically, even if in small steps and without the use of any form of violence: this is the case of the Rainbow Left.

Second, the ranks of the PD, met all those who agree broadly on economic and social system exists, but considered within that context that we should give priority to the rights of the excluded, the weak, employees, short of the rings of fragile Italian company, thus inaugurating what could be termed a "moderate progressivism," which abandons the old ideals of the clash of class and suggests instead a concerted effort to build a better society.

It should instead talk about his memorable defeat for the radical left. Victim in the logic of voting, but especially dell'incapacità to create a credible political entity, the team heir of the Communist Party is found, for the first time since the birth of republic, outside the parliament.

The reasons for this failure are many. The key seems to lie in the absence of a specific project that together all the parties who are part of us seems very different approach gradualistico and almost more cultural and political with Fausto Bertinotti which aims to build an alternative to the current system , From the more rigid and more tied to the ideological schemes of the past Oliviero Diliberto.

Italy thus became the only western European country not to have a force in parliament ecologist and antagonist.

Another surprising is the clear affirmation of the Lega Nord, which seems to have catalysed its most votes of older workers on the extreme left militants.

Although the ideas propinate league very questionable, we can not but stress the incredible ability of leghisti to show outside the theater of politics, resolute in trying to achieve their objectives, able to leverage on the immediate needs and more concrete population .

The great strength of the League is his character a-ideological. The party of "Lumbarda" makes rooting territorial integrity and promoting the interests of a particular geographical area its battle horses, not referring to the traditional ideological categories, achieved consensus among the various population groups in northern Italy.

Pierfrancesco Celentano