Government, Cacciari: ‘Meloni is weak, she constantly needs to have an enemy’

Milan, 19 October (LaPresse) – The controversy between Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and PD secretary Elly Schlein should be ‘viewed within a larger and more complex context, of which it is in some ways a product, and which concerns the fact that Western democracies are increasingly in a position of weakness compared to the major economies and emerging empires, such as China and India.’ This was stated by philosopher Massimo Cacciari in an interview with La Repubblica. What does the crisis of democracy have to do with the right wing in power in Italy? ‘Because Giorgia Meloni is also weak and therefore has this constant need to have an enemy, to hunt them down, to say that we are under attack, that they won’t let us govern, that there is terrorism, that they want to harm us.’ Cacciari observes that “she is playing out a farcical comedy against the left, like all of Meloni’s polemics against the left. But she does so because it covers up her own weakness with imagination, the representation of the enemy. And so he can say that the PD is like Hamas without losing a single vote.” Regarding Schlein’s connection between her complaint and the attack on Sigfrido Ranucci, he says: “There is a link, because it is an intimidation of press freedom, which fits into this climate of a state of exception, of continuous emergency”, that is, “increasingly weak leaders, who govern by decree, with empty parliaments: and the more emergency decrees there are, the more need there is to have enemies”.