Dear Director Feltri,
What do you think of the introduction of the third term? A tested governor, for sure, offers stability, but keeping him in his place, allowing him to maintain the institutional role for even
15 years does not represent damage to democracy?
I am very curious to know his opinion, always illuminated.
Sandro Pelle
Dear Sandro,
He has been debating for some time and I have already been able to have my say about the third term. We know that in our system the rule of the two consecutive mandates is worth in our system, which cannot become three, which implies that a person who has held the role of president of the region twenty consecutive times cannot even be proposed to the elector people, as it is not candidate and not eligible. This limit, however, does not exist for the positions of deputy or senator, for example, and I do not understand this differentiation, which automatically makes the constraint of the second term illegitimate, in my opinion. If a leader enjoys broad consensus and the people appreciate it and want to preserve it, why should we see damage to democracy in its re -acting? It would be more logical to consider the damaged democracy if anything where it had been prevented from being re -proposed and consequently it was prevented from being able to prefer and designate it again. I am convinced that the presidents of the Region can run more and more and that this innovation
It should be introduced, definitively closing any controversy that periodically turns on the public debate. The alternation, which must be guaranteed and protected by democracy, would not be injured if, for example, Zaia was still nominated and not even, it goes without saying, if it were De Luca, however much loved by the Campania, to recur in the presence of the sovereign people, a sovereign people who could give their consent to the adverse candidate. And are we sure that continuity, all the more where they operated well and where citizens therefore express trust and appreciation, is a negative element, irreconcilable with democratic values? Well, for me it is the exact opposite. The continuity is welcome, which translates into stability, efficiency, policies that are carried out and completed and not suspended or overturned, confusing citizens who, every time, must undergo changes. Public affairs would be administered without interruption.
A president who has already operated for a decade knows procedures, needs of the territory, the needs of the population, for what reason, that it is
Logical, should he be forbidden to follow to deal with it? If Zaia or De Luca were recovered and re -elected, no danger of feudalization of the regions would not materialize, they would not become the masters or sovereign of Veneto and Campania by acquiring a disproportionate personal power such as to harm public service, risk that those who oppose the third mandate pay. The good administrators, those who have moreover built a close relationship of trust with the voters, are rare goods, block them and force them on the bench due to a rigid rule even insane.
Considering the very high levels of consent that have reached certain governors, I consider it necessary to recognize the possibility of a third term in order to accept an application that, in truth, comes from below, that is, from the people, and not from the top of a regional council and a presidency.