In Emilia Romagna, the centre-right has spoken out against the appointment of Stefano Bonaccini as commissioner for reconstruction after the flood. In Rome, discontent has mounted in recent days in the face of the hypothesis that Palazzo Chigi wanted to entrust the task to the governor.

It is a tug of war that everyone wanted to avoid and that is raising the tension on the Rome-Bologna axis. In the Region they begin to make a damage count, "over 7 billion", and are preparing to welcome the president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen.