Bar straight and full forward. The indiscretions, the rumors, the controversies within the majority and the demands of the unions on the extension of the Green Pass do not seem to undermine the determination of the prime minister in pursuing a clear path with an equally clear purpose: to secure the country as much as possible. as quickly as possible, to avoid that autumn brings nasty surprises.
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The control room
For this reason, the control room this morning at Palazzo Chigi (the heads of delegation of the majority parties present) will decide the extension of the green certificate to all categories of workers, public and private and Italy will become the first country in Europe in which to go to work in the office, factory or any other workplace you will need to show the Green Pass. Goal of the government, to force the hand and convince those 3 million workers not necessarily No Vax, but undecided for more than one reason, to get vaccinated.
Transitive property
Green Pass also for restaurateurs, owners and employees of gyms, swimming pools, drivers and staff of long-distance means of transport in the name of a sort of simple and straightforward “transitive property”: if to enter a restaurant, for example, I must show the Green Pass, those who work there must in turn possess it. The same transitive property already applied to the school world, so to speak.
The doubts of the trade unions
CGIL, CISL and UIL in yesterday’s meeting with Draghi did not affect the Prime Minister’s determination. The knot to be solved is the free use of tampons, requested by Landini and colleagues, which the prime minister does not want to grant. Not so much for a matter of costs (which would in fact be very high) as for the fact that granting the possibility of a free tampon could mean reducing the propensity of Italians to get vaccinated. The possible middle way would concern a free time, for two or three weeks, to allow those who are not yet vaccinated to enter the workplace awaiting immunization. But for now it’s just a hypothesis.
The council of ministers
After the control room, at 2.30 pm the meeting between the Minister for Regional Affairs Mariastella Gelmini and local authorities. All to get to the Council of Ministers this afternoon, in which to approve the new decree on the Green Pass, which will come into force in mid-October. The minimum time allowed to those who decide to get vaccinated to obtain the certificate.