The Council of Ministers approved the single decree on measures for Covid, rave parties and impedimental prison. Among the measures decided in the decree there is also the postponement to December 30 of the implementation of the Cartabia reform. The appointment of the 31 undersecretaries and 8 deputy ministers was also approved. Stop the anti-Covid vaccination obligation for doctors and health professions. However, the obligation to wear a mask remains in hospitals and RSAs.
In the evening, the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, signed the decree. Green light from the Head of State also for the appointment of new undersecretaries with a Dpr.
THE PRESS CONFERENCE
She is “proud” of the intervention on the life sentence. He assures that there will no longer be “an ideological approach” in Covid management. And it gives the signal that “in Italy it is not possible to commit a crime” with the organization of rave parties which becomes a crime. You had promised “discontinuity”, Giorgia Meloni had promised “discontinuity” and proudly claims it to the first truly operational council of ministers, which has also completed the government team with the appointment of 39 new undersecretaries (8 will become deputy ministers). He guarantees, as the ministers also do, that there are no “problems” for now, that the team, one week after the executive takes office, works “with compactness and enthusiasm” despite the FDI-led center-right having reached governing the country “at the most difficult time for the nation”.
“There are no problems for now. I expect solidity and loyalty from my team and I am experiencing them.” A decree that the President of the Republic will evaluate, as always, with the utmost attention without anticipating judgments, is remembered in parliamentary circles. Even if the forumula omnibus is attacked by some sectors of Parliament. Postponement of the criminal justice reform, a stop to the requirement of vaccines for health professionals and the squeeze against illegal gatherings are presented in a single provision. Which immediately brings the opposition up on the barricades, Pd in the lead. The first CDM “betrays electoral expectations” the Dems go on the attack, with the secretary Enrico Letta pointing the finger at a “debut” that “rewarded the no vax”. While Giuseppe Conte stigmatizes “zero tolerance” against the raves of a government that instead “closes both eyes” on “Predappio’s black shirts and tax evaders”. But the meeting in Mussolini’s hometown minimizes Minister Matteo Piantedosi “has been held for years” and is a “different” case from that of Modena. In any case, the premier urged by a reporter on the sidelines of the press conference cut short, it is an event “politically distant from me in a significant way”.
In short, it rejects the controversy over fascism and anti-fascism, fueled in recent days also by the case on 25 April. And after an hour with the ministers to explain the measure, he returns to Palazzo Chigi to open the real game, the one on which credibility will also be played with Brussels, that of public accounts. Meloni closes in the seat of the government and with Giancarlo Giorgetti, the staff of the Mef (and the deputy premier Matteo Salvini), he begins to review the tables of the Nadef which, he confirms, will be updated in the next Council of Ministers on Friday. He is aware of this, “a race against time” needs to be done, but the hope is to bring the first measures against expensive bills already at the weekend, which will then be completed with the maneuver.
Certainly the premier and the owner of the Mef will have breathed a sigh of relief in front of a figure of the GDP of the third quarter that should have been negative and instead grew by half a point. In short, the scenario could turn out to be less bleak than the forecasts until yesterday indicated. And strengthen the dowry of the almost 10 billion ‘treasure’ bequeathed by the management of Mario Draghi and Daniele Franco.
For the moment to be claimed there is the first “symbolic” act on life imprisonment, which he also spoke about in the report on trust, which confirms that “the fight against organized crime” is “an objective” of the government and that against the mafia “will not step back”. In the meantime, she jokes, “I took the gag off Minister Nordio”, showing that she is an attentive reader of the criticisms that are reserved for her. And that you strongly deny, including those who see a risk on the targets of the NRP with the postponement of the Cartabia reform. “We take two months” to give the offices time to organize themselves, but “there is no risk”, she guarantees, that the Plan “will be compromised”. Just as there were no disagreements in the formation of the team. Undersecretaries and deputy ministers (only Salvini will have two, one from the League and one from Fdi), he also assures deputies and senators in the internal chat of the Brothers of Italy, they were chosen on the basis of “parliamentary experience as well as in the specific sector”. Of course there were “mediations”, because she was there, she confirms, “the theme of female representation” and “territorial”. But “we promised to be fast and we were”. Because now we really have to run.
