Covid, Conte and Speranza on the Commission of Inquiry: the reactions

Green light from the Chamber to set up a commission of inquiry into Covid with 172 “yes”, no votes against and 4 abstentions. The opposition forces, with the exception of Action and Italia viva who voted in favour, did not participate in the vote. Since it is a bicameral commission, the text is now being examined by the Senate. Immediately after the outcome of the vote, the majority sang “truth, truth”. Immediate reactions.

“As you have packaged this commission of inquiry into Covid, it is a political firing squad that has two names: Conte and Speranza”. The leader of the M5s Giuseppe Conte said this in the Chamber of Deputies on the commission of inquiry into Covid. The former prime minister added: «We thought we had reached rock bottom hearing what the current majority exponents said during the pandemic, and instead we are touching it today with the establishment of the Covid commission: we were the first to want it because I first I would like to ask why I have found myself with a public health system unable to deal with a pandemic. But as you have packaged it, it keeps out all the beating heart, the Regions, and all the chains of command », he added.

Equally harsh is the former Minister of Health Speranza: «The commission of inquiry into the management of the Covid emergency is a political tribunal to strike the main exponents of the governments that preceded you. An unworthy commission for a great country like Italy». Roberto Speranza, today a member of the Democratic Party, said it in the Chamber during the explanations of vote on the pdl presented by the majority. And he added: “This diabolical use of the commission is bad for the country: vaccines have saved millions of lives, you wink at no vax to get a few votes”.