remove those no vax rules – Corriere.it

He talks for a long time and his people welcome him: «45 replies in three hours, it’s a record-breaking Meloni!», they applaud from the Brothers of Italy. But the Prime Minister’s press conference at the end of the year – which touched on practically all current political issues – did not arouse the same enthusiasm in the opposition. Because the controversy over the anti-Covid measures is reopening, which the government had practically almost canceled also through passages of the Rave decree under examination by the Chamber since yesterday and to be converted by today, with rules that had caused the parent company to distance itself from Come on Italy Licia Ronzulli.

Meloni herself at the press conference made it clear that we are heading towards a tightening, compared to the expected easing (yes to masks, a fourth dose of vaccine and yes to control swabs), and yesterday he also announced that more intense monitoring will be carried out on the possibility that the virus regain strength and strike again with violence, but firmly ruled out any lockdown or “restrictions on freedom”.

Forza Italia immediately makes its voice heard: «We invite the government to relaunch the vaccination campaign on the fourth dose. This has always been our line. We cannot let our guard down: we are in a different phase but let’s not let our guard down», says Maurizio Gasparri in the Chamber. With him Maurizio Lupi: “We need an awareness campaign on vaccines”. But while the centrist area finds itself on the line of maximum caution, the group leader in the FdI Chamber Giovanni Donzelli announces that «in January we will schedule the establishment of the commission of inquiry into Covid. We will go all the way to find out why there was no pandemic plan in Italy and the minister lied saying there was, someone will have to answer for when on February 12, 2020 two tons of medical supplies left for China when there weren’t masks for hospitals; to understand what happened in the red zones and on the 12 million commissions to the consultant friend of Pd Benotti. We will defend the citizens and we will clarify the disaster you have caused ».

In short, a counterattack, while the fire has already started in a row of criticisms of the oppositions. The Democratic Party is at the forefront, with the same secretary Enrico Letta: «The Covid emergency is back but the government wants to pass the decree law with No vax rules that limit the measures to contain the epidemic to the House. You approved it two months ago. Now the situation has changed. Stop. Be responsible. Make it decay», is the heartfelt cry. There is absolute confusion in the government – ​​the parent company in Montecitorio Debora Serracchiani is pressing -: in these hours the Minister of Health Schillaci and the president Meloni are saying things diametrically opposed to what is foreseen in the decree. This is why we confirm our complete and absolute opposition, with all possible tools.

Even from the Five Star Movement the reaction is strong: «With the measures of the Conte government the catastrophe was avoided», is the premise. And «today Meloni discovers that checks and masks are indispensable weapons to fight Covid-19, better late than never – say the representatives of the social affairs commissions of the Chamber and Senate -. In fact, it does not escape that only two months ago Minister Schillaci opened a reflection to remove the masks even in nursing homes and hospitals. After the protests of doctors and health workers, who called the government to account, fortunately the masks remained to protect the most fragile”. Giuseppe Conte himself intervenes to say that the three billion expenditure for rearmament by his government was foreseen yes «but in three years. And largely for the staff who presided over the area in times of Covid ».

«Worries about the government flirting with No vax», protests the leader of +Europe Benedetto Della Vedova, and even from the third pole there are those who raise their voices. “The evolution of the pandemic in China is followed by us with great concern, Meloni must say what will be done on the fourth dose,” says Maria Stella Gelmini, for Action. Harsh controversies also on the Qatargate case, defined by Meloni more as a «socialist job
” that aitalian job
. “The political exploitation of judicial matters is never a good habit”, attacks the deputy secretary of the Democratic Party Irene Tinagli, while the dem Enrico Borghi speaks of “guarantee on alternate plates” and “fall of style”. Carlo Calenda is also tough on the government: «This budget law lacks any vision. Indecorous. At the first serious test the executive failed. TOgive us back Mario
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