The Council of State has expressed, with the utmost urgency, a favorable opinion to the proposal of the Ministry of the Interior for the annulment, in an extraordinary way, of the order of the Mayor of Messina Cateno De Luca which has imposed on "anyone who intends to enter Sicily through the Port of Messina, whether traveling on foot or traveling on any means of transport "the obligation to register, at least 48 hours before departure, in the dion-line system www.sipassaacondizione.comune.messina. en. The Section observes that "the extraordinary cancellation to protect the unity of the system today shows its renewed relevance and relevance, precisely in the face of phenomena of a global dimension such as the current pandemic health emergency afflicting the country, in order to guarantee the rational balance between the powers of the State and between them and the territorial autonomies ".
"This power - the section reiterates - finds its raison d'etre in the obligation imposed on the President of the Council of Ministers, enshrined in article 95 of the constitution, to ensure the maintenance of the unity of political and administrative direction, within the framework of unity and indivisibility of the Republic, referred to in Article 5 of the Constitution ".
"In the presence of national emergencies - concludes the Council of State - while respecting the constitutionally protected autonomies, there must be unitary crisis management to prevent regional or local interventions from frustrating the overall emergency management strategy, especially in cases where it is not only a question of providing aid or carrying out interventions but also of limiting constitutional freedoms ".
The opinion of the Council of State will now be followed by a resolution by the Council of Ministers which must be implemented by decree of the President of the Republic.
Meanwhile, the controversial ordinance of the mayor Cateno De Luca, which established an online database to regulate arrivals from the Straits, entered into force in Messina . This morning the mayor carried out some checks with the municipal police at the Rada San Francesco to check whether the passengers disembarking from the ferries are registered or not.
The ordinance specifies that whoever enters Sicily through the Port of Messina, either on foot or on board any means of transport, is required, at least 48 hours before the scheduled departure time, to access the online registration system -line www.sipassaacondizione.comune.messina.it. The passenger must declare to know the provisions of the Dpcm and the ordinances of the President of the Region on the coronavirus emergency; indicate the reasons for the move and the destination, where to spend the period of fiduciary isolation. If the reasons are valid, you can access the city of the Strait otherwise entry will be forbidden.
