The shame of the Covid commission

In the beginning it was “honesty, honesty”. Today we have “truth, truth”. Governments change but basic populism remains unchanged. The passing of the baton from that 5-star Movement that was taking its first institutional steps to the current majority of the Meloni government took place yesterday after the House approved the bill on the establishment of a bicameral commission of inquiry into the management of the pandemic Covid. A green light accepted, precisely, with the cry of “truth, truth” from the benches of the majority. A provision approved for the sole purpose of being used as a cudgel to hit the opposition. Just think of some passages that have remained unexplained to date. Starting with the lack of involvement of the work of the regions. If the commission was meant to understand what went wrong in the emergency management phase, what is the point of excluding those regions that already today have broad competences in the field of health and which with differentiated autonomy will have more and more in the future? The political will to preserve those mostly centre-right local administrations seems evident.