Rome
In five days, to fight the Coronavirus, Rome has placed 60 million people under house arrest, under police surveillance, until April 3. Never before has Italy experienced such a nationwide deprivation of liberty. How could such an unstable government have adopted it, without Parliament having a say, without causing any debate? It is true that the Constitution of 1946 provides, in its article 16, for the possibility of limiting the movement of citizens "for health or safety reasons". An article used twice: in 1973 when cholera raged in Naples. And in 1975 to fight against terrorism. But nothing on this scale.
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The political dynamics specific to Italy are not unrelated to this firm response from the government. Because in the six critical days preceding the quarantine of all of Italy, it was from Lombardy that the pressure came. The region most affected by the virus, but also the strongest in terms of
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