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In the afternoon, the president of the ANCI, Antonio Decaro, changed the position he held between yesterday and this morning and said that the mayors are responsible for the lockdowns and local curfews, if the state agrees to take the honor of the controls. HuffPost is pleased to acknowledge this.
With an air of concern above all about his political photogenicity, President Giuseppe Conte has decided to stay in no man’s land, neither here nor there. With the last dpcm he preferred to escape from the alternative of the devil, as defined here by Alessandro De Angelis, that is, either to face the epidemic emergency or the economic emergency, and finally does not address one or the other. It proposes additional, but mild, restrictions and offloads the burden of real options on municipalities, in terms of closures and curfews. As if his only concern was to come out as clean as he came in, when eight months ago all of Italy looked at him with their mouths open, even a little admired, since the shadow of the monster that had fallen over our lives looked like the most schizophrenic. nightmares, and he, the prime minister by chance, had even assumed the air of leader.
That time is up and Conte, who is not stupid, has understood. Perhaps not until the end, given that he managed to boast of the 150,000 daily tampons, when at least twice as many would be needed (say several virologists), and while avoiding the infamous thirty-seven billion of the Month, with which we would have arrived with an adequate sanitary arsenal for the fall test. Sooner or later he will have to account for it, and it will not be a good time. But he understood a little: puzzled and terrified, eight months ago the Italians stood firm, listened and obeyed; today they are just as terrified but less disoriented and willing to blame the government for the collapse of health and bills. In order not to take too long, Conte does not know if it is preferable to remedy the delays with severe limitations and be besieged at Palazzo Chigi, or whether to accumulate others waiting for a stroke of luck and, if not, to be besieged later. Technically it is called a disclaimer.
And here we have to talk about the mayors, whose highest representative, Antonio Decaro, has clung to the institutional barricades, complaining that the Prime Minister alleviates the aforementioned responsibility and the discharge in the municipalities. Decaro is right, but it is difficult to understand how the anger of today and the opposite of yesterday come together, when Decaro himself protested against the handyman Conde: “We cannot and do not want to be relegated to mere executors of decisions made elsewhere.” Then he claimed autonomy and now he rejects it, because autonomy implies responsibility. And the responsibility at this point is too heavy. Let’s put it this way: it seriously damages photogenicity, while in other times it was beneficial, when it was won (that mayors cannot enforce any lockdown or curfew has nothing to do: a mayor decides and controls with the tools that has, and in any case it would already be a step forward in prophylaxis).
Here we are at a time like this. Everyone waives their responsibility. And although it is, by definition, the highest, the noblest, the responsibility of the government (central or local) and implies the obligation to make decisions and be responsible for the consequences. If one does not have this strength, no problem: step aside, especially now.
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