When Mussolini decided it was time to turn the Italian kingdom into a criminal tyranny, he organized the so-called "Marcia su Roma" (March to Rome): on the 22nd of October 1922, tens of thousands of fascists converged on the capital city to claim political power. This occurrence defined the death of the liberal state and the final rise to power of the fascist party. On that occasion, the king, Vittorio Emanuele III, didn't show any courage in preventing this coup, bowed his head and assigned Mussolini, the leader of the Partito Nazionale Fascista (National Fascist Party), the task of forming a new government.
Eighty eight years later, the very same thing has happened. Let's be a little bit more clear and start explaining this political tragedy, moral failure and 'ethical' murder from the beginning.
Acts, or even better, enactments, backed by the government have become normality, even if the definition of enactment presupposes some "crisis" conditions which would allow the government to exceed all other constitutional powers. Today even the interpretation of the laws belongs to the government ( Berlusconi) !
For more: Killing Democracy: How Berlusconi Made Italian Democracy Unconstitonal
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