Coronavirus, Fontana challenges Palazzo Chigi: “They reopen Lombardy”. The government freezes him and he stops

Contrary to the reopening of bookstores and stationeries earlier this week, the Lombardy region yesterday requested the Conte government, with an official note, the possibility of reopening from May 4, giving “green light to the activities of production”. Except for doing a partial reverse at night, with the president of the board, the Northern League Attilio Fontana, who declared having been “misinterpreted: we do not allow ourselves to talk about productive activities, which are the responsibility of the central government, subtracted from all our possible evaluations We are talking about the gradual resumption of ordinary activities to be agreed with the government. “

The Lombardy region initiative is under the weight of an unprecedented recent economic downturn: € 857 million of missing spending in March alone, the Milan, Monza and Lodi Confcommercio announced yesterday. It is 31.1% of monthly household spending. Another league player, the budget commissioner, Davide Caparini, assured yesterday that the reopening would come in second place. four coordinates, the “four D”: distance, personal protective equipment, diagnosis – serological tests in collaboration with San Matteo de Pavia will begin next Tuesday – and digitization.

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Announcements that have generated more than one perplexity at the Palazzo Chigi: “surprise” at the change of line, skepticism over an “inopportune” proposal, and the suspicion that the announcement serves Pirellone to divert attention from the court case of deaths in the Rsa. More explicitly, the Minister of Regional Affairs, Francesco Boccia, has made his opposition clear: “Fontana is part of the national control room, he says, if you want to make proposals, that is the institutional place to make them.” No less important Mise’s deputy minister, Stefano Buffagni: “Lombardy’s request is a mistake. Fontana has always supported a rigorous and restrictive line and today, surprisingly, he decides – it is not clear what data – to open.” The criticisms that later took the Fontana half-step back.

But caution is also extreme in other settings. “Lombardy is the pilot of what will happen in other regions – underlines Ranieri Guerra, Deputy Director General WHO – and must be extremely cautious and carefully assess risk quantification to be zero. “

In reproduction ….

Rejected in practice, Lombard’s reopening will have to take into account a number of passages that are not entirely obvious. By public transport, for example. The regional rail network is one of the most extensive and traveled by travelers: of the 2,300 trains that Trenord puts on the train every day, today a tenth of them travel. Trenord planning meetings are daily, but the solution is complicated. “How will we apply social distancing on the wagons, a Trenord source, how will we control entrances to stations? We don’t have enough staff.” The idea is to start pilot experiments at Lombard’s 30 main stations.

Unions ask for guarantees. “Assuming that the conditions for the reopening are on May 4, reasons why Ugo Duci, secretary general of CIS Lombardy, if the four” Ds “will not prove to be just another announcement, we are ready to ensure that security systems become a daily reality. ” . However, the protections first. “The resumption of activities must have a framework as a precondition clear – warns Elena Lattuada CGIL regional secretary – and confirmed by the national scientific committee. “

In reproduction ….

On the other hand, there are the entrepreneurs who tremble. Especially the medium and small ones. The regional president of street vendors, Giovanni Mauro Dolci, wrote to Fontana asking for the reopening of the covered markets: “We can guarantee forms of prevention not inferior to other forms of distribution,” read the hypermarkets. “To avoid economic death – assures Marco Accornero of Unione Artigiani – we are ready to make somersaults, even opening at night. Half of the 90,000 Lombard companies do not have employees, they are ready to start again. As for the others , like hairdressers, there are all the precautions to work safely “