ROMA – It is the most delicate moment since he has been at Palazzo Chigi. Mario Draghi he is aware of it. Worried, in some ways. At the weekend the No Passes return to the streets, fights are feared. Dockers and transporters risk slowing the recovery. But it is precisely for these reasons that the premier in these hours confirms the line of firmness. He will defend the Green Pass, its rules, its “fundamentals”. He will not give in to the request for free tampons. The Viminale circular on those who work in ports will also be modified. It will grant only targeted adjustments, which will not change the rigorous framework. He cannot do otherwise: a chasm would open.
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It is not just the tensions that have inflamed the country. The alarm for the G20 at the end of October. There is also politics. Matteo Salvini that continues to blow on the “no Green Pass” fire, hoping it will turn into a fire. It is a political and social puzzle to manage. The idea is to resist. Palazzo Chigi has no doubts, the plant will hold up. From here to tomorrow we will evaluate corrective minimums, but the pass will work. We have to grit our teeth for a few weeks, the containment of the pandemic will be the antidote to No Pass and No Vax.
A passage, in this sense, shows that the premier is demanding firmness. This is the case of dockers swabs. Draghi had limited himself to urging a pragmatic solution. With a circular, the Ministry of the Interior has invited companies to pay the tests to workers in the sector. An opening in the wall of the Green Pass. For example, that would authorize law enforcement officers who refused the vaccine to ask their employer, that is to say the state, to pay for the costs.
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Palazzo Chigi was unaware of the contents of the circular. The text does not like. Informally advises the Interior Ministry to withdraw it, or in any case to correct it. But something runs aground. A case arises: on the one hand the offices of Bruno Frattasi, head of the cabinet of the minister, on the other the rest of the executive. Eventually the circular could be withdrawn. All, however, without public friction, because the government cannot afford to weaken the owner of the Interior at this stage.
Let me be clear, the premier is pushing to resolve any practical obstacles. Let’s take the case of hauliers from Eastern Europe who pass through Italy. Many received Sputnik, a vaccine not recognized by Ema and Aifa, therefore unusable for the Green Pass. Is it possible to imagine a derogation? No, was the response from the Ministry of Health of Roberto Speranza. For them, however, a compromise solution is being studied: those who drive the trucks should be able to stay on board, waiting for the unloading of the goods, and then leave again. Here, this is an approach that the executive considers reasonable, because it defends a production need without weakening the philosophy of the Green Pass. And without giving in to Salvini’s requests.
Draghi and the Northern League leader meet in the early afternoon, at Palazzo Chigi. To ask for a meeting – actually for Palazzo Chigi already on the agenda for days – is the secretary of the Carroccio. He publicly claims to be “concerned about the situation in the country”. He promises to bring a petition to Palazzo Chigi, on behalf of the entire center-right: “The emergency is work, not fascism. I don’t trust some ministers, but the government manager cannot allow what is happening. national pacification “.
The face-to-face lasts an hour. The appeal, in the premier’s study, takes shape as follows: “President, we fear the climate of growing tension in the country”. It refers to what happens in the squares, but also to the content of the political debate. “The controversy over the fascists – the sense of reasoning – is an excuse to fuel a campaign of aggression against the main parties of the coalition”. This is the thesis, which does not seem to take into account the gravity of what happened in the headquarters of the CGIL, nor the arrests of the leaders of Forza Nuova. Salvini, however, hopes for a lowering of tones: “To be achieved thanks to his authority”, he tells Draghi.
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Draghi listen. He does not reply to the appeal, they report, nor does he promise anything. The same line that holds with respect to the League’s claims to calm the price of tampons and extend the validity to 72 hours. Tests for law enforcement, at least try to snatch something from the leader, must be free or very low cost. Also in this case, it does not take hold on the premier. Which remains cold even when, at the end of the interview, the former Minister of the Interior reiterates the need to strengthen the flat tax of VAT numbers – bringing the threshold up to 100 thousand euros from the current 65 – not to return to the Fornero law and reform the Basic income. Draghi, on the other hand, is interested in quota one hundred, which will disappear. The budget law is imminent, the goal is to prepare the League to digest the unwelcome news.
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