Prefect Guido Longo is the new health commissioner for Calabria. Conte: “Man of institutions in defense of legality”

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A Council of Ministers met with haste and fury to appoint, after 20 days of failure, the commissioner to perform at the piano on the return of the Health of Calabria. To overcome the vetoes and find the square with the definitive transfer of the position to Guido Longo, prefect of Vibo Valentia, former Palermo police chief, the intervention of the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella was also invoked. Thus, after shameful hesitations, resignations, postponements, ends a game that has shown all the political fragility of the government.

Conte: «Longo is a man of institutions, in defense of legality

«The new health commissioner of Calabria is the prefect Guido Longo. A man from the institutions, who has already worked in Calabria, always in defense of legality, ”wrote Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte on Twitter. Longo, executive director of the police, was appointed prefect of Vibo Valentia in 2017, after working for ten years at the Reggio police headquarters in the mobile squad. In Campania, the Casalesi clan was hit with the arrest of the superfugitives Antonio Iovine and Michele Zagaria.

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Longo has always measured itself against the infiltration of crime in municipalities

Now it is up to Longo, who has always been measured against the infiltration of crime in the municipalities dissolved for the mafia, to untangle the skein of healthcare in Calabria. Before him, six of them were burned, despite the fact that some expressed their approval and availability. The last to be removed from the list when it now seemed done was Agostino Miozzo, CTS coordinator for the Covid emergency. He was left one step away from his appointment for demanding too much in terms of “superpowers.” Another hole in the water that has aggravated the Government’s impasse: since November 7, or since the day of the resignation of the former general of the Carabinieri Saverio Cotticelli, who has directed health care in Calabria since 2018, appointing the commissioner ad acta company. Even a sham.

Mostarda and Varratta rejected

Same luck for Narciso Mostarda, director of the ASL Roma 6. Child neuropsychiatrist, specializing in health management, 58 years old, was director of psychiatrist at the ASL Rm / C and the ASL of Frosinone. In 2009 he was a councilor for the Democratic Party in the municipality of Ciociaria. Rejected. Like the prefect Luigi Varratta, who said that he was ready to serve as health commissioner in Calabria. Varratta, appointed prefect on September 1, 2008, served in Crotone, from December 30, 2009 he was prefect of Reggio Calabria, and then he moved to Florence on April 2, 2012. Since June 29, 2015 He is the head of the Department for the personnel policies of the Civil Administration and for the instrumental and financial resources of the Ministry of the Interior. Vetoes and differences have blocked it.

Gaudio went back on his own

Eugenio Gaudio backed down on his own: as soon as he was appointed he surrendered for “family reasons”. The former rector of La Sapienza said: “My wife has no intention of moving to Catanzaro. A job of this type must be faced with the utmost commitment and I have no intention of opening up a family crisis. The slogan has started on social media. Among the eligible candidates, at least in the intentions of the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, was also Gino Strada, who however did not want government posts. In any case, it has never received official proposals. With Giuseppe Zuccatelli we were at the dawn of history: going from one blunder to another, he was torpedoed in less than a week. In a video that went viral, the manager stated, among other things, that “masks are not used for ca … o”. So he resigned, at the request of Minister Speranza. And he also resigned from his position as commissioner of the hospital companies of Catanzaro.