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Dario Martini
4.15 pm. Il Tempo publishes the news online: “Interior Minister Lamorgese is positive on Covid.” She doesn’t know anything yet. His co-workers suggest that he look at his cell phone. And that’s when he reads Il Tempo’s tweet, as government sources say. At that time he is in the Council of Ministers, where the majority clashes for the Recovery Fund. The meeting had started almost five hours ago. Lamorgese is seated next to Luigi Di Maio (left) and Alfonso Bonafede (right) grillini. The owner of the Ministry of the Interior, who had undergone hyssop before going to Palazzo Chigi, immediately asks her assistants for confirmation. The latter call the doctors. Confirmation arrives: it is positive. Meanwhile, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Justice have already risen from their respective chairs to distance themselves as much as possible from their colleague. Giuseppe Conte has no other option: he suspends the session.
Lamorgese, asymptomatic, goes home. The ministers leave for about ten minutes. Then they sit around the table again. After half an hour, the Council is permanently suspended. The order is to meet again today. The time to sanitize the rooms and for all the ministers and their collaborators to submit to the hyssop. Di Maio and Bonafede, the residents of Lamorgese, do something else: they put themselves in fiduciary self-isolation. Today they will connect by videoconference.
Palazzo Chigi, at this point, releases a note to ensure that all safety regulations have been respected: “The Council of Ministers is held with all the necessary precautions. In particular, all ministers wear masks for the entire duration of the meetings and maintain the required interpersonal distances. In addition, full ventilation of the Council room is constantly ensured, which, already in these minutes, is sanitized by the personnel in charge “. And again: “All ministers regularly undergo health checks to avoid the spread of Covid-19.”
Everything is fine? Not quite. The leader of the League asks for a clarification and puts his finger on the wound: «Best wishes for a speedy recovery to Minister Lamorgese. Once cured, which is the most important thing, it will be necessary to clarify whether it is true – as some sources write – that she disobeyed the provisions of her own government, going to the Council of Ministers without waiting for the result of the test, thus putting her health at risk . from other persons. The minister who reviews and fines Italians who do not respect the rules cannot be the first to not respect them: in this case the resignation would be due.
If there is anyone who has been able to breathe a sigh of relief, it is Prime Minister Conte. The Council of Ministers looked really bad. Italia Viva does not want to know the scheme established to administer the Recovery Fund. And threatens to blow up the bank. The Minister of Agriculture, Renziana Teresa Bellanova, speaks of an “opaque structure with profiles of unconstitutionality.” Time, with the news of the infected Lamorgese, earned the Prime Minister 24 hours.
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