Covid, Valle d’Aosta disobeys the government and proclaims itself a “yellow zone” – Corriere.it

Valle de Aosta “disobeys” the government and passes a regional law that provides for the reopening of retail stores and other businesses despite the fact that the entire territory remains in the “red zone”, therefore with very strict anti-Covid restrictions. From Rome, the regional autonomy minister Francesco Boccia immediately warned the Valle d’Aosta city council that the provision will be challenged and what looms is an institutional clash between the central government and the local authority.

Shops and bars reopen

Everything arises from the vote that took place in the afternoon in the regional council where a law design was approved (in favor of the Lega and the autonomist groups) that in practice “degraded” Aosta and its territory to the yellow zone and declined the provisions contained in the Dpcm in local code. While the obligation to wear a mask outdoors and the ban on gatherings are confirmed, the green light is given to retail, personal services, bars and restaurants, and even museums and libraries. The measure is declared “urgent” and will enter into force with its publication in the official gazette. The President of the Region reserves the right to reintroduce restrictions in case the contagion curve worsens.

“The government does not understand the mountains”

A kind of “all free” in stark contrast not only to the red zone regime that exists in Valle d’Aosta, but also to the fact that the Regions do not have the right to mitigate the provisions adopted by the government in Rome but In any case, just make them stiffer. “The Italian government has shown little sensitivity to understand the problems of the mountain,” said regional president Erik Lavevaz, during the Valley Council that approved the law. “This law goes in the right direction, which is the one we have already started: it gives order to the implementation phase of emergency management, immersing itself in our territorial reality.”

And Rome turns to TAR

The immediate and foreseeable response came from Rome: the measure will be challenged in the TAR and Minister Boccia stigmatized the behavior of the Autonomous Community: “The statements of President Lavevaz of the Valle d’Aosta Region undermine and damage the loyal collaboration that characterized in In recent months the arduous and exhausting common work against the pandemic. Everyone knows the importance of the serious crisis that economic categories are going through, obviously not everyone is aware of the very serious health emergency and the number of families that every day they have to face very strong pain.