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“Because we will heal.” The Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, explains this to us, who in the midst of a pandemic found time to write a book on the coronavirus.
It matters little that the government came totally unprepared for the “second wave,” although it had largely anticipated it. “The Minister of Hope, Health”, as he was renamed by the Tg1 host who made this terrible mistake on September 2, he has been Italians’ most beloved government exponent for months, right after Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte. A certificate of esteem and trust that is awarded despite poor management of the emergency of coronavirus– The Immuni app turned out to be a failure, thousands of doctors, nurses and intensive care beds are missing. The only innovative idea, recently born by the owner of Salud, is the practice of informing to stop any private party. “It is clear that we will also increase controls, there will be complaints,” he declared during an interview with Fabio Fazio in which he spoke of the ban on holding private dinners with more than six people. This ban later became advice and the terrible Soviet-flavored mistake was forgotten after a few days because, curiously, the minister, despite everything, likes it. “Speranza has the reassuring look of the typical good householder and is loved by Italians because people believe that he is the one who heals them. If they love him a lot or a little, it doesn’t matter ”, explains the pollster. Nicola Piepoli consulted by ilGiornale.it. But how did a shy and uncharismatic forty-year-old potenza take on such an important role? To understand this, it is necessary to go back to his political career.
“I have a great passion for historical studies that I have cultivated, even after graduating in Political Science, obtaining a PhD in History of Mediterranean Europe. I am passionate about wine and good food. I love Totti’s Roma and nights with my lifelong friends “the minister who, after some experiences abroad, decided to return to “his” Basilicata, writes about himself on his personal website. It is from here that Speranza, born in 1979, began to take his first steps within the DS and, at age 25, was elected municipal councilor of Potenza. In 2005 he was already part of the national executive of the Juventud de Izquierda, a youth movement of the Democratic Left of which he assumed the presidency two years later. We are in 2007 and the DS is moving towards dissolution to make room for that P.S “Majority calling” heavily sponsored by then-center-left prime minister Walter Veltroni. Speranza, an iron dalemian first and then a Bersanian, assumed the position of regional secretary of the new party in Basilicata in 2009. “He is one of the last who made a career in the party, a type of career that today could no longer be done because that type of party structure no longer exists “, explains a source of ours who knows Speranza from the current head of the party. The Ministry of Health was part of the Committee that supported the candidacy for Prime Minister of Pierluigi bersani. It was 2012 and, at that time, “he was regional secretary when holding that position meant becoming the plenipotentiary of candidates for political elections,” our source emphasizes.
The cartoonist Vauro describes Speranza as a “young old man”, an image that perfectly fits the character. “He did not have great leadership skills, but he knew how to hold the various souls together and do the work of the gray man of the apparatus,” say those who knew him closely. “He is the classic exponent of the party that, then, could have been both Minister of Transport, Education or Health”, add those who think that Speranza is “the classic bureaucrat who always manages to stay afloat because he never says a word.” out of place. “The only flicker, if we want to call it that, dates back to 2015 when he resigned as House Leader after then-Prime Minister Matteo Renzi decided to place his trust in Italicum. Speranza, who had entered Parliament for two years Before and who occupied that role as leader of the Bersanian majority, suddenly he found himself in the minority, he left. In 2017 the fracture with the Democratic Party Renziano and Speranza was definitively consumed, together with Pier Luigi Bersani and Arturo Scotto, they founded Article 1 in an attempt to create a kind of mini-gadget similar to the one he grew up with.
Two years later his shy and basically taciturn character helped him to be nominated, also thanks to the hand of Massimo D’Alema, Minister of Health of the Giallorossi government. “He is not a person who necessarily wants to speak, but then this attitude gives the idea that he disappears. But in the face of people who end up saying things out of place, he represents the man of prudence ”, his former party colleagues explain again. The pollster Piepoli, in this regard, clarifies: “Only a malevolent public opinion can think that Speranza is a puppet and that the true minister is the grillino Sileri” who, unlike the leader of Article 1, is a doctor. The perception of public opinion is that “if a politician does not speak, it means that he acts.” But you always have to see what political actions he takes. “We do not know if it was a strategic choice of the government or if the figures of Arcuri or the technical deputy minister Sileri could be more reassuring. The fact is that, in the confinement phase, there was an absence of the minister who, in these moments of crisis, should not be there ”, attacks the deputy. Marcello Gemmato, Head of Health of Fratelli d’Italia. The Melonian exponent, however, credits the minister for having acted as “pungiball.” “Very often he would go to the Chamber to report, before each Dpcm, even when it would have been the responsibility of Prime Minister Conte, as in the case of the extension of the state of emergency,” concludes Gemmato.
