Tommaso Cerno (senator PD) and Michela Rostan (deputy of Leu) join Italy alive. Cerno would thus become the eighteenth senator of Italia viva, Rostan the thirtieth deputy. "They gave us for dead and instead ...", note Renzian sources.
"There had to be an escape from Italia Viva - stress internal sources - and instead Renzi's party is growing. Today Michela Rostan has left Leu and Tommaso Cerno has left the Democratic Party. Italia Viva today has 30 deputies and 18 senators".
"Senator Cerno - declares in a note the Capitoline councilor of the Democratic Party and exponent of the Democrats of Rome Giovanni Zannola - who fought the No Tav in dissent from the Democratic Party group in the Senate last summer, passes to Italia Viva who presents in two days with Renzi a shock plan on infrastructures.
Michela Rostan sent a letter to the Leu group last Friday with which she announces "the intention to leave the parliamentary group of Liberi e Uguali". "In the next few hours, I will formalize this choice in the institutional offices. The origin of this determination - reads the letter - is in the now evident difficulty of facing political battles that I consider important, in total solitude. It has recently happened in two circumstances : one is the commitment to allow renewal for drugs that fight hepatitis C to remain in the Innovative Fund for a few months after the deadline scheduled for April. I wanted a fact-finding survey on the subject in committee. We held dozens of hearings: a voice has risen unanimously. Patients, associations, doctors have told us that we are about to eradicate hepatitis C. But innovative drugs must be renewed, for at least another 6/12 months. 'AIFA ". "I tried to have this renewal included in the Milleproroghe, without anything done. Neither in the government, in the decree, nor in Parliament with amendments. From our Minister of Health, informed of everything, did a contrary opinion arrive, evidently inspired by the AIFA ". "The second defeat, in the same way, came on the law to contrast violence against doctors and medical personnel on duty. I have been committed since the beginning of the legislature for the recognition of these figures of the status of Public Official. They ask for it themselves: the Order, the trade unions. My proposal on the law was also signed by Roberto Speranza. The commission came up against the commission when I translated it into an amendment and the majority voted against. " "Frankly, they are too bitter morsels to digest- continues Rostan in the letter -especially because they come from a sector where we have our significant political presence which, paradoxically, instead of supporting us in the battles, comes against us".