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The governor requests the “count” of the monitoring data. “Assemble the control room on Monday and anticipate the passage”
FLORENCE. At one point, after having exhausted and stunned him for forty minutes, reciting numbers, percentages, open beds here, traces recovered from there, comparisons with other regions, the hardest blow. He marked where it hurts the most. Roberto, you see, I defend the insecure. He is the champion of the weak, not the former splinter, the minister of the atomized left of ArticoloUno. And then almost a provocation as well as an offer. “Look, put together the control room on Monday and Tuesday, objectively evaluate the data by allowing us to move to the yellow zone midweek and I am ready to sign an ordinance and anticipate the stop to travel between regions that the Christmas Dpcm anticipates from December 21 to January 6. Also because it seems absurd to me: Tuscany is surrounded by 5 regions with contagion data two or three times higher. ”It was supposed to be a video call, a summit between politicians and technicians. , Eugenio Giani chooses a traditional phone call, because for the governor everything is politics, mediation, agreement, even in the heart of a pandemic.
So, before going to light the Christmas tree at the Ospedale degli Innocenti, Giani calls Speranza and also talks at length with Silvio Brusaferro, president of the Higher Institute of Health. An interview scheduled since the morning with the Minister of Health, with whom Giani also contacted shortly before lunch. Convincing him of a new offensive is not only the rejection that came a day earlier from the control room, the follow-up that stuck Tuscany to orange for another week, but also the deluge of criticism that rains down on the comments to his posts. “Giani affirmed!”, “But then we don’t count for anything?” He is convinced of it: even one more day for restaurateurs and their employees is crucial.
But even in the Democratic Party there are those who accuse the president of having created a “bubble” of betrayed hopes. “The Region was wrong to create expectations without being sure of the result,” says Luca Menesini, mayor of Capannori, president of the province of Lucca, very close to the leader of the group in the Senate Andrea Marcucci. The mayor of Altopascio, Sara D’Ambrosio, also echoes him. In short, the accusation is of having sinned in communication. Obviously an offensive part of the opposition: “Giani tell us if Tuscany can reopen safely or stop playing with colors,” said Senator Massimo Mallegni from Sins. The shields are Dario Nardella and the president of the regional council Antonio Mazzeo. But the risk of a negative image reaction is strong.
So Giani decides to fight back. Record a video, run it on Facebook and get 225 thousand views. He defines the decision of the control room as “unfair and unmotivated”, says that Tuscany has suffered “a disparity”. He recites the data for the region that, with only 597 cases, is one of the few sanctioned, while many are worse. And then the RT, which has been in the yellow zone for three weeks. “Veneto has surpassed 5 thousand cases today and is in yellow, you see!”, It will thunder later on the phone with Speranza and Brusaferro. For this he wrote a letter of appeal to Conte and the minister. A document in which you actually ask for a “recount”, a review of the data. Give up appealing to the Tar. There would be no margins. And it would not make sense to follow Marsilio’s example in Abruzzo. “The TAR has blocked its ordinance.”
“It was a positive conversation – said the governor at night – But I had the impression that they did not know what we had done, the 550 extra beds, the 500 route planners. They told me they followed the procedure. It’s just a matter of practice. But how is it done. “Ultimately, both the minister and the technician point out to the governor that granting an advance to Tuscany would have generated a precedent. And that a diplomatic incident with other governors would have triggered, one above all, Vincenzo De Luca. “They asked me to send a report before Monday morning, I trust that they will meet the control room on Monday or Tuesday, so that we can switch to yellow midweek.”
