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AOSTA. Valle de Aosta’s decision to pass a regional law that, in effect, overrides anti-Covid restrictions, has angered the government. The Minister of Justice, Alfonso Bonafede, has announced that he will propose to the Council of Ministers – whose meeting is scheduled for the afternoon – to challenge the law passed by the Consell del Valle thanks to the unprecedented union between the autonomists and the League.
The head of Regional Affairs, Francesco Boccia, wrote yesterday to the president of the Region Erik Lavevaz to invite him to cancel the ordinance with which he had given the green light to the reopening of “neighborhood businesses” talking about “health networks at risk” . Lavevaz’s response was the threat of legal action against the actions of the Ministry of Health that maintained the red zone of Valle d’Aosta. Then, in the afternoon, the regional assembly approved the law that will allow, once published in the Official Gazette, to reopen everything. Except schools. The progressive civic project opposed the decision, which opted for abstention: “It is a dangerous and illusory measure.”
“President Lavevaz’s remarks undermine and loyal collaboration that has characterized the hard and exhausting work and health security in recent months,” said Boccia. “More than 80 health workers have arrived in Aosta in recent months. In the last weeks we have decided to place additional resources in the availability of the Regions to give relief to penalized activities, with a fund that probably the president of the VdA does not know because there are no public interventions of his in the institutional sphere.
“The Government – added the minister – has been with the entire Valle d’Aosta community from day one. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the Valley has always been guaranteed additional financial resources, as can be seen from the numerous agreements approved unanimously at the State-Regions Conference, more than 16 million consumables and more than 7,000 non-consumable materials, of of which 15 lung ventilators were used to enhance intensive care, up to more than double, “adds Boccia in a note inviting the president of Valle d’Aosta” to ask the president of the Bonaccini Conference or vice-president Toti about the commitment respected by the Government to redistribute in the territories an additional fund of 250 million euros that will be made available to the Regions penalized by the closures that are added to the national aid stations.
“Finally, the monitoring model was questioned. First of all, the President must know that it is strictly scientific, accepted by the Conference (and therefore also by the VdA) it has existed since April 30 and each president for 7 months has on his desk every week the report on the epidemiological condition of its territory. This report is also prepared with the contribution of the three technicians appointed by the Conference of the Regions – continues the minister -. The Aosta Valley has lost 322 fellow citizens since the beginning of the pandemic, 5 in today’s day alone, Lavevaz would do well to investigate all these aspects before making decisions that could cause damage not only to health but also economic to a territory that has a lot I need the support of the state. Full support that I confirm, reaffirm and assure again on behalf of the government. But always in full compliance with the regulations and health safety ».
