Grillo and the M5s, a new grammar – The Republic

THERE can be no automatism between a warranty call and resigned, and this even may mean that certain severe conduct on the part of those who are at the centre of an investigation. To establish the new code of conduct, the 5 Star Movement, released yesterday by Beppe Grillo. An instinctive reaction drives us to criticize this radical change, stressing that sounds more opportunistic in the timing, given that it arrives when it appears imminent involvement in the inquiries of the roman Virginia Ray. An act that, according to the canons, always sanctified by the Cinquestelle, would have imposed the resignation of the mayor, as alleged, a year ago, in the case of the first citizen of Parma, even if in that cas e to raise the dispute was the non-transparency on the matter.

in Addition, it is striking that this just comes from a man who has used the warnings of warranty as a cudgel in the political struggle and preached the purity as a distinctive character of its movement. An objection that, however, it would be easy to move, even in the Democratic Party, which for years has used surveys, investigations, and notices of guarantee in its battle against Berlusconi and the centre-right but then be many suspects and convicts in the house.

So it seems to us more correct to look to the substance to say that the intervention of Grillo is right for the principle that expresses and serves to re-establish some elements of fairness in the relationship between politics and the judiciary. The new guidelines of 5 Stars return to the entry in the register of suspects its true value: the beginning of a process in which they are collected and weighed the evidence in support of the indictment, and not a sign of automatic guilt.

for almost a quarter of a century, it is repeated that the notice of the warranty is due, a defensive tool that too often has been contested as an item offensive. Today it is no longer, because the reforms to the criminal procedure have imposed the questioning to closing investigations, which, in fact, together with the extensions of the inquiries has become the moment for journalistic, which is aware of the investigations against someone.

But to repeat it today can help svelenire the political climate, and can help return a healthy principle of responsibility to politics and the world of information. It is the opportunity for a new grammar, in which you put aside automatic and pavlovian reflexes and analyze the cases in their specificity and to assess severity and responsibility.

we Must say that in the course of the years, the level of tolerance toward the behavior of politicians is changed, however, something that only the 5stars have been ignored. Ministers Maurizio Lupi and Federica Guidi resigned without that had been formalized the hypothesis of the crime against them. There have been parliamentary debates and an assessment of how it emerged from the acts of the powers that drove them to decide: ethical evaluations and policies, that went beyond the legal framework.

This is the point to emphasize here, that should serve as the guiding star also for journalistic activity: not limited to the promotion of the mere location of the suspect, but to insist in a the work of in-depth study and analysis of the behaviour, offer to the Parliament and to the citizens, all the elements to decide. What was the meaning of the ten questions of Giuseppe D’avanzo to the then prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi: the journalism of inquiry.

The same that has led us to denounce the opacity, and the risks in the appointments and in the selection of employees to be part of Virginia’s Rays, a work done well before the arrival of notices of guarantee, and arrests, which have only confirmed the goodness of the work of the Republic .

Topics:

m5s

the 5-star movement

notice of warranty

just

Starring:

Beppe Grillo

Viriginia Rays