THE NEW FACE OF POWER IN THE CAPITAL
In the history of Rome, not only political but, April 28, 2008, election of the "black" Gianni Alemanno Capitoline to the throne, was and will be a decisive day in order to understand what has changed in the country. As. Why. And with a choice obviously intentional, he plays with the recurrence of calendars, nell'ottantasettesimo anniversary of the March on Rome (October 28, 1922), arrived in the library fall of Rome (Rizzoli, pp. 208, € 9.80) the last work of Claudio Cerasa, excellent reporter of the paper, reporter lively and strong. "What is hidden - you ask Cerasa - behind the extraordinary rise of Gianni Alemanno? For reasons such as a city decides to entrust his fate to a man from the past so busy? Because the right knows better about the safety of the left? Which billionaire businessman hiding behind the government of the different mayors of Rome? ".
With the pace of the investigation method and an entomologist, these questions Cerasa gives answers. And - most significantly - with names, dates, numbers, circumstances. Restoring a picture of the power that moves the city, its links, its joints, not only useful to those who live, but also to the many observers and confused, not knowing nor soul, nor geography, nor the profound social and cultural gaps that have crossed over the last twenty years, we insist to simplify the treatment, regular updates to the string of clichés that it has earned over the centuries.
the "taking of Rome" has the merit of illuminating, calling him by name, the political section of Alemanno's victory and, more generally, of the center-right majority that has been done in the country. Alemanno won with the mob, pressing at the gates of the fort now identified as the true patrician of Rome Veltroni's constituency. Tell Thus the reversal of charges of political, proletarian and bourgeois. With a victory, not surprisingly, begins and is built into the belt device, Ponte di Nona, which the center-left administrations had imagined as a modern monument to stay and sustainable urban proletariat, small and middle-class, historically "red "Time and expelled from the heart of the city. Abandoned their sense of insecurity and physical (real and "perceived"). At the next set with the last of the last (new Romanian immigrants and Roma).
After fifteen years of center-left government, the right has the hunger, the strength and desperation of those excluded. And not for winning a new project or idea of \u200b\u200bthe city, of which the book is no coincidence that there is no trace. Win by wasting natural opponent and especially because the real masters of Rome, his powers are strong - manufacturers, managers of municipal Vatican circles, lobby taxi drivers - in the best tradition of changeable and cynical city got rid of a horse worn down (the Rutelli and Veltroni's Democratic Party) which have achieved everything they could get and get on the new provisions, but to win in any condition.
mantra Alemanno and his campaign - "Unbolt Rome" - it sounds music to the ears of the people, becomes the vestibule of his deception. Because the choices of the new Mayor, in his new geography of power - as Cerasa documents - in reality, the Plebe is (re) delivered to the same block of Patrick which, in words, the new mayor has promised to want to get rid of. In short, revolutionary, the new outlet in Rome, there is only noise and the power of words, the extraordinary charm of history, except for the first time ever. There is above all an omen. That once the "unbolt" in a rage the city its new political masters will be quickly digested.
Carlo Bonini
03/11/2009
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