I feel emotional, more than I have in a long time over a political outcome (yes, political!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And for some reason, I find myself thinking of my one-and-a-half-year-old children, who can barely speak yet. Hardly at all. But they make themselves understood, and there\u2019s one thing they say loud and clear: no.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They say it when they don\u2019t want to eat, when something scares them, when they feel that something isn\u2019t right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What does that \u201cno\u201d mean, the one they can whisper, but also shout? Perhaps simply: \u201cI don\u2019t like it, I don\u2019t want it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And I like to think that Italians, even those who may not have understood every detail of the reform, wanted to say just this: I don\u2019t like that you are the ones changing the Constitution.
I don\u2019t like questioning the work of judges and subjecting them to politics.
I don\u2019t like those who, while under investigation, attack the justice system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I don\u2019t want it. I don\u2019t like it. You don\u2019t convince me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And perhaps it\u2019s worth saying: this \u201cno\u201d is not a retreat into immobility. It\u2019s not the desire for nothing to change. On the contrary, it is the rejection of a change perceived as unjust, or at least unconvincing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meloni has just stated that \u201cthere is bitterness, because the goal was to improve the country.\u201d But improve it for whom? And above all: in what way?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It feels somewhat striking to hear talk of change from those who have always presented themselves as defenders of order and tradition. So perhaps that \u201cno\u201d is not against change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is a way of saying: not like this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And perhaps, every now and then, even a democracy needs to return to that\u2014a short, clear word that doesn\u2019t explain everything, but says enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Simply: no.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Maria Pranzo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I feel emotional, more than I have in a long time over a political outcome (yes, political!). And for some reason, I find myself thinking of my one-and-a-half-year-old children, who can barely speak yet. Hardly at all. But they make themselves understood, and there\u2019s one thing they say loud and clear: no. They say it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":7712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n