The temperature rises to St. George’s Palace (and also in the Palazzo Alvaro across the street) and the pot on the stove is boiling. And it is bringing all its secrets to the boil. As the hours pass, both the bad moods and the desire to give up everything grow. These are frenetic hours in the palaces of the city’s politics: there are a succession of secret meetings and gatherings, more or less secret, where everyone meets everyone; where everyone speaks badly of everyone and personal political destinies take precedence over the destiny of the city (what should matter to everyone but is inexorably put in the background). The city councilors are becoming aware of the inevitability of the arrival of the access commission to Palazzo San Giorgio and many are looking for a way out, new shores and new shores. Thus passes the glory of the world… while the centre-right is insistently thinking about making its own councillors resign to raise a national issue.
A democratic inquiry
The “Ducal” investigation – which immediately revealed itself as a deeply democratic investigation because it hits the Democratic Party hard but does not neglect the center-right, hitting FdI and Lega hard – is spreading like wildfire, uncovering new suspects and new scenarios (increasingly disturbing). All of this is obviously and absolutely incompatible with politics. Which, as St. Thomas Aquinas defined it, “is the science of action. Politics – wrote the philosopher monk – must be understood as an architectural science that presides over the coordination of all other disciplines that concern the activities that take place in society. The city, that is, the object of political science, is created by men through reason”. But it is precisely reason that seems to be most lacking in this city.