Who pushes Conte towards a Dpcm in the confinement in Italy?

Giuseppe Conte go back to exclude a emergency shutdown “widespread” actually says “we must avoid it.” For days there are those who paint him as reluctant to adopt a new Dpcm with a “soft” blockade in Italy and stricter measures at the school. The prime minister says that “we remain vigilant and willing to intervene where necessary at any time” but the truth is that fear is a self-sustaining feeling and the 19 thousand positive cases of coronavirus registered by the Civil Protection bulletin only put more Su The government is under pressure, which is already divided between those who would like a significant tightening within the weekend and those who would like to wait at least ten days, or the moment to weigh the effect of the measures of the last Dpcm before moving again. The problem is that time is running out.

Who pushes Conte towards a Dpcm for the confinement in Italy?

In recent days the newspapers wrote that with more than 2300 people in intensive care, closure will be required so as not to make the hospitals suffer and that the government is willing, if necessary, to declare it. The October 25 date had been set for the new Dpcm and the government’s denial of pragmatism almost seemed to confirm it. Of course, it is enough to look back over the last week to understand that the pressure on the government is increasing. Last Friday the Ansa news agency wrote that the Scientific Technical Committee He had asked the government to include in the Dpcm in preparation (that of October 18) a curfew and distance learning in secondary schools. Immediately afterwards, the coordinator of the CTS Agostino Miozzo informed AdnKronos that there had been no pressure from the body but only problems to discuss with the executive.

A few hours later the head of delegation of the Democratic Party Dario Franceschini In a statement to Ansa it came to light: “Yesterday I asked President Conte 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.” Conte, upon returning from Iole Santelli’s funeral, began a two-day long consultation with the local authorities at the end of which he published the Dpcm on October 18, but not before sparking a furious controversy with the mayors. At a press conference, illustrating the Dpcm, Conte said that the first citizens would have the right to close streets and squares in the presence of gatherings The same said a draft also published by Today. and it circulated everywhere near the signature of the provision, although it was evident from the annotations in the text that it was not a definitive form.

A few hours pass and, surprise!, in the final text the reference to mayors disappears and the text becomes so neutral that it is not clear exactly who has this famous and phantom power to close streets and squares: “From the streets or squares of urban centers, where you can creating meeting situations can be closed to the public after 9:00 p.m., without prejudice to the possibility of access and exit to legitimate businesses and private homes ” The president of Anci Antonio Decaro Today he recalled on the radio how the story was: “We held meetings continuously, from last Saturday to Sunday and then they kept us in the dark about the provision.” During the day of Monday the festivities approached. In the institutional sense, the first citizens nevertheless accepted the commitment: “Mayors can close streets and squares but controls are in the hands of the police: we did it because we have a sense of responsibility but that does not mean that the method followed by the Government in the The issue of the curfew to the mayors seemed to us an institutional incorrectness, that’s why we protested ”.

The government and the pressure towards the closure of the confinement in Italy

As soon as the Dpcm was launched on October 18, stripped of all the characteristics that had been discussed in the previous days, from smart work for the public administration to the secondary regulations requested by the government by some Regions, but without that nobody had done it. go ahead even in front of public opinion to claim them; to most people it seemed pretty smooth. Behind the election was an objective question: the speed of positive growth in the past week had been less tumultuous than this one. And perhaps there was also a political issue behind this. That is, in front of the first confinement, the climate in the country has changed and if in March the seriousness of the situation had overwhelmed everyone, now at the polls one wonders what the institutions did to avoid the encore by having all summer available to avoid crowds. intensive care. An embarrassing question for both government and governors.

For this there is the most important thing, which is that the Italian economy cannot afford a new lockdown like last March if not at the cost of much greater damage. However, the week that started with a new Dpcm is ending with a series of forces asking Conte for another Dpcm. One hundred scientists do with an appeal to Conte and Mattarella calling for “strict and drastic measures to be taken in the next two or three days” to “prevent the contagion numbers in Italy from inevitably arriving, in the absence of effective corrective measures, in the next three weeks, produce a few hundred deaths a day. ” Doctor makes Massimo galli from the Sacco hospital, calling for “a curfew throughout Italy if necessary.” Your health minister does it between the lines Roberto Speranza. Newspaper columnists do so with increasing aggression, but this is perhaps the least of Palazzo Chigi’s problems.

He does it in an interview PD Undersecretary Andrea Orlando: “We have a symmetrical attack on health that receives asymmetric responses, each governor gives different responses that create confusion. The Dpcm was written with the need to be a lowest common denominator, saying things that nevertheless leave a wide range. We will have to narrow it down. this range and say things that all regions should adhere to. We must avoid an economic blockade around Christmas, which would be the most devastating that can be imagined. “And he imagines that the deputy secretary agrees to a statement with his secretary.

It also does the president of the Campania region Vincenzo De Luca who says that it is essential to take an immediate decision on the closure in Italy and announces that Campania “will move in this direction very soon”, even if some of the adjustments that the governor expects are not within its powers. Conte is holding out for now, certainly concerned about the health of the Italians, perhaps also about the economy and somehow also about his stay at Palazzo Chigi after the end of the emergency. How long will it be successful?

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