Salvini condemns those who drive by talking on the phone. A Northern League deputy leads by talking on the phone

Matthew Salvini had announced, no more than a dozen days ago, that it was necessary to “update the highway code which is thirty years old” and that “it must be updated to new mobility, new technologies, the abuse of mobile phones which distract and a huge problem”. A huge real problem, given that distraction is the main cause of road accidents in Italy. A huge real problem that also grips those in his party, the Lega.

Indeed, on 21 December the honorable Stefano Candiani he took part in the debate underway in the joint EU Policy Commissions of the Senate and Chamber for the hearing of the Minister for European Affairs, Raffaele Fitto. He did it live streaming while driving. Indeed, by his own admission, while he was “slaloming on the Milan ring road”. And this despite the fact that Senator Giulio Terzi di Sant’Agata had underlined, as if to dissuade him from speaking: “I see him engaged in driving matters”.

Following and intervening in a commission while driving falls squarely within the casuistry of distractions, the enormous problem underlined by Minister Salvini. There is no news of sanctions, warnings, or heckles against the distracted driver Stefano Candiani.

However, there is news of the government’s extraordinary plan to “curb the massacre of pedestrians on Italian roads”: “The resources are aimed at the design and implementation of interventions in urban areas, such as the implementation of zones 30 and environmental islands, with the ‘introduction of elements of traffic calming to mitigate the speed differences between pedestrians and motorized traffic, pedestrian crossings with traffic lights and other similar interventions”, thanks also to “the increase in visibility also through interventions on vertical and horizontal signs”. In practice, there will be an allocation of 13.5 million euros for 14 major cities: Rome, Milan, Turin, Verona, Venice, Trieste, Genoa, Bologna, Florence, Naples, Bari, Palermo, Messina and Catania.

A noble intention, also for a government that had canceled the Draghi government’s urban cycle path fund, allocating the 94 million elsewhere for the two-year period 2023/2024, to then concede, emphasizing it as if it were a new ad hoc fund for urban cycle paths , 2 million euros, to which 4 million will be added for 2024 and the same for 2025.

Probably belonging to the Northern League does not allow the live streaming to be included in the case study “of the abuse of the mobile phone which distracts and is a huge problem”.