Enrico Letta today filed its official resignation as President of the Italian Council to President Giorgio Napolitano. He led a coalition center-left/right wing government. His party, the Democratic Party by voting for “a new phase with a new executive supported by the current majority" brought him the fatal blow.


The conductor will change but the music remains the same. Matteo Renzi, struggling to hide his personal lust for power, clearly states his intention to “accelerate reforms ", i.e., to expand the austerity policies. He can count on the support of the right embodied by Angelino Alfano, who pleads for a “non-political " government "without connotation center-left“.


In light of this new "coup”, everyone can measure the level of collapse of the institutions and parties that dominate Italian politics. Citizens are reduced to the status of spectators once again. In a democracy, can one change the person who holds the key position of the country without consulting the sovereign people?


The need for a left political alternative is stronger and more urgent every day.