It has been over a year since journalists could stay and work in the Transatlantic of the Chamber of Deputies. In between, the various lockdowns and restrictive measures that have made the area inaccessible.
The reopening has now been established, but about fifty deputies have written a letter to President Roberto Fico expressing concern about the imminent reopening of the long corridor: a concern dictated by the fear that the return to the Chamber of all 630 parliamentarians could represent a risk for the spread of Covid.
This move, however, did not bear fruit: Fico and the Quaestors immediately made it known that the decision had been taken and would not be changed. The ocean liner is a symbol of Montecitorio. It takes its name from its own structure: a long and majestic atrium designed at the end of the 19th century by the architect Basile, also known in the chronicles as the “corridor of lost steps”.
The Transatlantic is a 56-meter saloon (almost 12 meters wide). As reported by beraking latest news, the Parliamentary Press Association welcomed with “with enormous amazement and disappointment the letter signed by a few dozen deputies asking the leaders of the Chamber to review the decision to finally reopen the ocean liner after almost seventeen months of closure. Above all, the invitation to extend a ‘special’ regime that today has now been superseded everywhere escapes us ”.