MILAN – At the hundredth message, Beppe Sala’s sense of institutional bon ton went into conflict with Beppe Sala’s sense of political opportunity.
And the mayor of Milan has detached himself from the idea of ”total lockout” of a metropolis which, if it stops, is somehow lost in its identity. Already on Tuesday, in postponing the important and profitable appointment of the Salone del Mobile in June, Sala had explained the need to “defeat the coronavirus, but also the virus of mistrust”. Yesterday his relaunch was across the board: “I got on the phone with Rome, I spoke with the Prime Minister, I invited him to come to Milan soon to see for yourself our situation”.
In these calls, although there is no official confirmation, it is certain that Giuseppe Conte has assured the mayor of his desire for a serious trip to Lombardy, to go around wherever you need, collect the requests of the various social categories and “provide”.
“Nobody likes Milan with the lights off, which is a city reopened as soon as possible”, says Sala and there is not only him in this perspective of rebirth in respect of public health. Reality and psychosis are reckoning: the real problem (in perspective) concerns the places in the reanimations, where it is necessary to cure the worst, not the mortality rate or the quantity of positive tampons. In fact, “The conditions are finally in place to ask the government for a gradual return to normal,” says the president of the Piedmont region, Alberto Cirio, who today at 6 pm meets the presidents of the provinces, the mayors of the provincial capitals and the prefects.
And for the re-elected president of the Emilia-Romagna Region, Stefano Bonaccini, the linked health emergency cannot be transformed, he claims, into a disaster for economic stability. Like Sala, he turned to Conte. In his wishes there are aids to companies in general and “for all operators of the public entertainment, it is not imaginable that the economic burden of the government’s provision falls only on them”.
In other words, there is another North that looks beyond “viral agents”. And Sala, the first citizen of the locomotive city, yesterday “after working on the reprogramming of the calendar of events, which are crucial for many activities and for tourism,” not only called the Prime Minister, but two other members of the government . Minister of Economy and Finance Roberto Gualtieri, to whom “I asked – he says – for support and I told him that help in Milan is a good investment”. And he heard from the Minister of Heritage and Cultural Activities Dario Franceschini, a regular in Milan and La Scala, with whom he understood on the fly: “Let’s start from culture, let’s reopen something, be it museums, or whatever, but culture is life “.
For Sala, the issue of economic difficulties does not immediately concern finance and large industry, “but there are people who, if they do not work, will not arrive at the end of the month and it is these that the mayor of a city must think about, if he wants it solid as active and international as ours “. Since the emergency occurred, Sala had said that it was appropriate to “limit sociality” and had never publicly distanced himself from regional health and the president of Lombardy Attilio Fontana, who is holding the snitch of strategies together with Civil Protection and the Ministry of Health. And he had remained silent in the Count-Fontana clash. That behind the scenes he told his parents that “this can’t be done” was no secret. And he has been busy. Next Monday, therefore, can mark the end of the “suspended world”, so unusual in Milan.
– .
