Italian democracy is buried under rubbish

Several thousands of tons of rubbish are currently piling up on the streets of Naples and its outskirts, notably because of malfunctioning waste disposal centres. Numerous fires have been lit by exasperated inhabitants. "Hope that we might be able to govern our South without resorting to force has been buried beneath the rubbish on the streets of Naples. ... Also lost is the illusion that good technicians, honest civil servants and competent left wing administrators could succeed where others had failed", despairs the editorialist Francesco Marlo. "The rubbish of Naples is endangering Italian democracy. The government must impose a logistical solution with force, with emergency laws, with the army."

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