the Democratic Party asks Conte for a summit for the new hardening

The head of the delegation of the Democratic Party in the government, Dario Franceschini, announced that he had asked Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte for a summit to launch new restrictive measures for the coronavirus emergency. “I asked President Conte yesterday for a meeting as soon as he returned from Brussels to decide without delay new national measures to contain the infection, obviously in agreement with the Regions,” Franceschini said in a statement reported by Ansa.

“The Democratic Party calls for a summit to launch new restrictive measures”

The summit could be held tonight, while Conte left the summit early to go to Jole Santelli’s funeral. Franceschini’s statement follows rumors reported by the Ansa news agency about the Scientific Technical Committee’s request for a tightening of emergency measures “before the weekend.” And the fact that it has been publicly denounced when the greatest secrecy is usually kept on this type of issue suggests the division in government between the so-called rigorists and the open-minded ones that Conte must mediate. The prime minister knows that if the first national blockade has skyrocketed his popularity, a second would be unsustainable for the country’s economy and this time would jeopardize his leadership.

But in the government the sensitivities are different, and the departure of the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza to Che tempo che fa to prohibit private parties, later unauthorized by the Dpcm, which only recommended the famous six-person rule, is an indicator of a division in absolute. internal executive. And only Speranza (Leu) wrote the day before yesterday Daily fact, “together with the Minister of Cultural Heritage and Tourism, Dario Franceschini (Pd), represents the most intransigent wing of the government and is ready for tougher restrictions such as Macron’s curfew in France, perhaps next week.”

Among demos in government, the contagion curve is being watched with growing concern and chaos at school openings is not helping to defuse the climate. The president of Campania Vincenzo De Luca has ordered the closure of the institutes until October 30. Meanwhile, the Minister of Economic Development, Stefano Patuanelli, has made it known that it is not conceivable to stop productive activities. While De Luca himself urged the government to act: “Half measures no longer work, the sooner we make firm decisions, the better. If we delay we are approaching the time when we will be forced to make even more serious decisions but with the water in gluttony. He is responsible for making tough decisions today without waiting any longer. ”

Towards the curfew at 10 p.m. throughout Italy

Curfew and distance learning in secondary schools

Currently, the two measures we are talking about are the curfew at 22 for all of Italy and distance education in secondary schools, which after Campania should still be adopted in some provinces of Lombardy, including Milan. On Facebook, the Minister of Education, Lucía Azzolina, today took a stand against the decision: “100% of distance education, as someone asked in recent days, would not help protect the health of children, which they would still go to satisfy their legitimate desire to socialize elsewhere. Our duty, today more than ever, is to protect them. Our school principals and all the school staff spent a whole summer with the meter in hand, working together with the Ministry, school security. “For Matteo Bassetti of the Genoa hospital, on the other hand, the curfew is a good idea.

And Franco Locatelli, president of the Higher Health Council (Css) and member of the Technical-Scientific Committee (Cts) for the coronavirus emergency, today in an interview with Corriere della Sera again threw water on the fire: “I don’t think there are elements that they can guide us to foresee a next, new confinement, nor a confinement to be achieved in such a definite time, but still relatively distant, like the Christmas holidays ”.

Then there’s the economic side: the blockade at Christmas is a 4.1 billion nightmare for tourism just because of the lost expenses of the more than 10 million Italians who went on vacation last year during the holidays – this comes up from an analysis by Coldiretti / Ixé in reference to the alarm launched by Crisanti about the development of the pandemic in Italy in the coming months. A severe blow to the economic system already severely tested by a summer that, Coldiretti stresses, left a hole of 23 billion in the national tourist accounts due to the decrease in Italian presences and the practically total absence of foreigners.

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