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It is discussed extensively in the Council of Ministers, the grillini raise doubts, try to interpose themselves, but in the end the ball passes into the hands of Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte who, in agreement with Ministers Speranza and Gualtieri, chooses, as health commissioner in Calabria , Eugenio Gaudio. Originally from Cosenza, former rector of the University of Rome “La Sapienza” and former dean of the Faculty of Medicine, since April 2020 he is advisor to the Minister of the University in the area of health and for relations with the National Health Service .
The day was complicated. The Council of Ministers on the financial maneuver and on the election of the new commissioner in Calabria, which should have started at 12, is postponed to the afternoon. “These are busy hours, we are looking for a way out of the stagnation,” government sources explain. Commissioner Giuseppe Zuccatelli must be removed, but above all a majority agreement must be found on the new name.
First, the first impasse must be overcome. “It is opportune that I resign”, with these words pronounced by telephone, the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, asks the Commissioner of Health of Calabria Zuccatelli to retire. In the middle of the afternoon we learned the news that everyone was waiting at the government headquarters. The health manager elected just a week ago resigned: “The minister called me and did not need to give me an explanation. He asked me to quit and I did. And I am resigning from all the positions I have in Calabria ”, thus leaving the head of the Catanzaro hospitals.
Fatal were the phrases pronounced on the masks that would be useless and distance is of little use. “To get the virus – he says in a video – if you were sure you should kiss me for 15 minutes with your tongue in the mouth, otherwise you will not get it.” The video is too bulky. And his predecessor, Saverio Cotticelli, also came out for a video interview broadcast by Rai3 on the “Title V” broadcast during which he says he did not know that the writing of the anti-Covid plan was in his hands.
At Palazzo Chigi for a few days we have been looking for a figure that can revive the health of Calabria and its accounts. The appointment of Gino Strada is invoked from many sectors. It is mainly some members of the 5 Star Movement who want it. But Strada does not have managerial experience, a requirement foreseen by the Calabrian decree bis and which the founder of Emergency does not have. However, he will enter the team with a special delegation, that of Covid.
As for the commissioner, to overcome the cross he vetoes the name Conte chooses him and, as we have said, Gaudio is named, “a technician”. “Two authoritative names – say sources from Palazzo Chigi – that can help to restart Calabrian medical care”. However, in this chaos, Strada writes late at night: “I learned from the media that there would be a Gaudio-Strada tandem, this tandem simply does not exist.” But he reports that he listened to the prime minister and gave his availability. Gino Strada brakes because he feels the ground may become slippery.
Members of the M5 government are furious, even if no one apart from Nicola Morra says so openly. The new health commissioner has been investigated since last year by the Catania Prosecutor’s Office as part of the investigation ‘Forbidden University’ on alleged irregularities in academic competitions that, according to the prosecution, were rigged. On July 23, the Public Ministry notified the professor and 53 other suspects of the notification of the closure of the investigations, as part of an extract from the main investigation. In September, Gaudio, at his request, was interrogated. In the following days, his lawyer, considering his position “clarified”, filed a request for presentation. A passage that Palazzo Chigi sources are about to underline to escape the controversy since M5s, the majority shareholder of the government, was created with the aim of not having investigated in the institutions.
Morra, president of the Antimafia commission, is not there: “Gaudio will undoubtedly be a very valid person, but in Calabria, for many different reasons, including the need to radically fight against the ‘Ndrangheta with its infiltration of the health companies, that is not it’s good”. . Even in the grilline chat, many perplexities are anticipated by the supporting role given to Strada. For the grillini it would have been a symbolic appointment that of the President of Emergency, an appointment that would have helped them in this phase of internal restructuring and loss of consensus. But even this time we will have to postpone it.
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