“Absent in 250, the traffic police called urgently”

Today in Rome, as in the rest of Italy, we voted in favor of the referendum on the reduction of parliamentarians. The polls are open from 7 in the morning to 11 at night, the first after the emergence of the covid, but as it has emerged in these hours, it is precisely the covid that is still scary. Many presidents and tellers have missed the appointment with the seats, 250 in total of 2,600 who announced it at the last minute.

The mandatory masks, the anti-collection paths, the sanitation of the premises were not enough, the fear of contagion seemed in too many cases to have taken hold, so much so that it forced the municipal administration and the Prefecture to resort to the availability of the local police, to the necessary replacements for the correct development of the vote.

The call to the traffic police came yesterday from the Roma Capitale Delegated Services department addressed to the general commander of the local police Stefano Napoli. “Those responsible must report to via petroselli 50 as soon as possible” we read in the communication that RomaToday could see. With the subject the “Mandatory recruitment of Corps personnel”.

The Roman secretary of the Ugl union, Marco Milani, intervenes on the question: The agents will not be lacking in their prompt response but it is necessary to ensure that dangerous precedents do not become the norm and that above all the central and local administrations finally come to recognize, at the contractual stage, the enormous differences, responsibilities and needs, required of white helmets, in comparison with the rest of employees of the local authorities ”.

The Councilor of the Brothers of Italy Francesco Figliomeni also denounced critical issues in the organization of the polling stations: “We receive news from many parts of Rome that the polling stations lack representatives of the mayor, section presidents, tellers and material with the electoral office that, stuck with calls, does not give answers with the risk of not having time to establish seats regularly. before the vote “. Then the attack on the Capitol: “The Rays and the rulers of the Pd / 5 Star also take note of this umpteenth failure and allow Italians and Romans to vote early to elect a more capable and competent political class.”

The leader of the M5 group, Giuliano Pacetti, defended the work of the Municipality. “The fear of contagion has endangered the composition of the polling stations throughout Italy: Milan had to resort to appeals through social networks to search for available ATMs and electoral presidents, in Apulia Civil Protection had to intervene” explains the councilor grillino. “In Rome we cover absences in a few hours using Capitolinos employees. I want to thank you for what you do every day and for what you do. There were 760 surrogacy operations in the approximately 2,600 places in the capital. A huge number covered in record time. A heartfelt thanks to all who made it possible for the election operations to run smoothly.