Can Italy's new government be considered "democratic"?

[ingemann]

I don't understand the point? The Italian parliament elect a government, the Italian parliament are elected by the Italian people. It's no difference from the British, Danish, Swedish or German government. So unless people believe that only a directly elected executive branch is democratic*, the Italian government should be considered democratic.

*Which limits true democracies to USA, Latin America, half of Africa, Central Asia, Caucasus, Cyprus, Indonesia, Iran, Yemen and Belarus.

[ingemann]

*Which limits true democracies to USA, Latin America, half of Africa, Central Asia, Caucasus, Cyprus, Indonesia, Iran, Yemen and Belarus.

France?

France have a PM who is elected by the parliament. The French president power is more or less limited to foreign policy and war. So France is structural more or less placed in the middle between USA and Italy.

[ingemann]

There is a difference between accepting that this is legal under the democratic system of Italy (which it obviously is) and thinking that it is democratic in spirit.

I maintain that it is deeply problematic to treat the democratic structure this way.

..and you're welcome to do, but it's your subjective individual opinion nothing more. I happen to have the subjective opinion that if something follow the rules, have widely popular support it's rather meaningless to call it undemocratic, and it's not like the Italians doesn't have very precise idea what a technocratic government means, they had one in the nineties, so that it will hurt won't surprise them.