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“Italians also love freedom, but we also care about seriousness.“Then the president Sergio Mattarella replied to the prime minister Boris johnson, which had justified the largest number of coronavirus cases in Britain by saying that the British love freedom more and therefore respect the rules less.
According to Johnson, the British do not know how to respect the rules
Two days ago, in a speech to Parliament, Boris Johnson, to deflect opposition criticism of his handling of the epidemic, said Britain had more COVID-19 cases than Italy and Germany because is “a country that loves freedom”. And therefore it is more difficult to ask citizens to abide by the rules.
Ben Bradshaw, a Labor MP, asked if “the reason Germany and Italy have fewer cases” is because their services work.
Johnson had rejected the thesis and added: “There is actually an important difference between our country and other countries in the world, and that is that our country is a country that loves freedom.”.
My question asking Johnson why #Germany Y #Italy have much lower # COVID-19 rates that seem to have hit a nerve # covid19uk pic.twitter.com/Z351pkG4SK
– Ben Bradshaw (@BenPBradshaw) September 22, 2020
For Johnson, a glance at the last 300 years of UK history is enough, where “all the progress in free speech and democracy” was born. That is why it is “very difficult to ask the British population to uniformly obey the guidelines,” the prime minister added.
Johnson’s thesis, in practice, aims to link the current coronavirus positives from Italy and Germany to his own. past experiences of totalitarianism.
Mattarella’s response to Johnson
The response of the President of the Republic Mattarella came this afternoon, Thursday 24, during a ceremony in Sardinia in memory of Francesco Cossiga.
“Italians also love freedom but we also care about seriousness”Mattarella observed in Sassari.
It is not the first time that the Head of State has intervened on this specific issue.
As Fanpage points out, this summer Mattarella said: “Sometimes the issue of the violation of health standards is evoked as an expression of freedom. There are no values that are at the center of democracy like freedom. Of course, it is also necessary to take into account the duty of balance with the value of life, avoiding confusing freedom with the right to make others sick.”.
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