Coronavirus, Nicola Zingaretti test positive: “I fight, don’t panic”
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So, evidently a little drunk with the good percentages of victory that the polls deliver for the regional ones in September, urged by the journalist Rai, De Luca stressed: “On the Covid emergency we anticipated the measures taken then by the government by 20 days. we remember some phrases like ‘Milan doesn’t stop’, ‘Bergamo doesn’t stop’. And we remember a party secretary who is also a friend of mine went to make a toast, but since God is there he caught Covid ” . General laughter, but two hundred kilometers north, at the Nazarene, they didn’t like it at all.
Vespa asks if he then “made the evil eye” to the dem leader, De Luca replies: “I did not make him the evil eye, I defended myself with my nails and my teeth”. Then more serious he adds: “For example, compared to the return of our fellow citizens from Lombardy. We have taken into account all the risks and I think we have done a double miracle because, even if we don’t talk about it, the Campania Region is the one that receives less of all regions of Italy as an allotment of the national health fund “.
But the boutade is judged unhappy not only by some MPs in Naples, where his verb is hardly questioned, but especially in Milan, where the reference to Zingaretti’s “toast” touches painful memories and touches the community to which the National Secretariat had wanted to make a visit that day in full compliance with the regulations then in force.
“Dear De Luca – in fact Pietro Bussolati, regional councilor of the Lombard Democratic Party replies – Nicola had come to bring solidarity to Milan and to a wounded community, respecting the rules in force at that time. Your joke is therefore unpleasant and inappropriate. Let’s continue like this, let’s get hurt. ” A thrust that receives, more confidentially, numerous bipartisan compliments.
De Luca takes advantage of this to reiterate the legitimate battles of his legislature, on the theme of funds and health: “Fifteen years ago, it was decided to allocate the funds on the basis of the average age and social deprivation on the data of average income, and environment).
Over the years, the 2 criteria have been reduced to just the registry age and therefore every year we are plundered by € 300 million. My colleagues don’t care because in order not to lose money they don’t look at anyone, there is a block of power that is completely indifferent to the correctness of the criteria “.
No reference, however, or an accent of self-criticism, on the dispossession of regional health, on the closure of hospitals and presidia started already by its predecessor Stefano Caldoro, then continued by De Luca. Nor on the elements that, during the emergency, did not work: from the non-existent rainfall of the Usca (the operational units) to the citizens who died waiting for a buffer, even for nineteen days.
And in the evening comes the reverse of the governor from Campania: “I find it incredible that a joke made during a chat with Bruno Vespa during a conference may have been interpreted as a political act”.
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