Bonaccini ready to collaborate with Figliuolo. “It seemed that the government’s problem was to say no to Emilia-Romagna”

The appointment of General Francesco Paolo Figliuolo as emergency commissioner after the floods did not please the president of Emilia-Romagna Stefano Bonaccini. Not out of disdain for the military head of the Joint Operational Command of the Defense General Staff and former extraordinary commissioner for the Covid-19 emergency, on the contrary “he is an authoritative figure”, “I have and have collaborated very well during the pandemic and here nobody has anything against him” Bonaccini said in an interview with La Stampa. The problem is political and methodical.

The government, according to the president of Emilia-Romagna, “confuses the institutional level with that of the party”. Stefano Bonaccini explains that “first they decided to separate the emergency phase from that of reconstruction, ignoring that in a flood the two things are held together. Then they said that the Commissioner for reconstruction would come months later, faced with the need to immediately help families and businesses and secure the territory. Finally, they split over the name, taking a month and a half to decide. Faced with our proposal for an institutional collaboration that puts the territories at the center, which had worked, and well, in the post-earthquake reconstruction of 2012, they made an opposite choice. And it seemed that the problem was saying no to Emilia-Romagna and not naming Bonaccini”.

For Stefano Bonaccini, “almost 9 billion are needed, of which almost 2 immediately for urgent interventions. In exactly one week we have provided the list of 6 thousand interventions to be done immediately on roads, rivers, collapsed slopes”. The president of Emilia-Romagna expects “equally rapid responses. President Meloni said on coming here that the damages to citizens and businesses will be compensated one hundred percent: I am sure that will happen”.