They had assured that during this period there would be no controversy and that everyone would give the government a hand to deal with the Coronavirus emergency that affects the entire country by now. And instead controversy and criticism seem to be on the agenda as evidenced by the statements of the leader of the League Matteo Salvini , who also convenes a press conference in the Senate, and by the position taken by the other Matteo, Renzi, often against the Executive . It is the escalation of the interventions is evident. Salvini begins in the morning, defining "incredible and shameful the clash between the Pd government and the Pd region on the skin of the Marches!". Then, always the Northern League senator, says that "the governor of Sicily Musumeci is right" when he claims that it is not "possible that at a time like this the government allows the disembarkation of hundreds of other immigrants" by calling on Europe to "wake up and take charge".
In the middle of the day there is a period of calm when Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announces that Salvini would have explained to him that he had "changed some numbers" and that he had developed "a text" that would have "already arrived at Palazzo Chigi". "It is my responsibility to evaluate the proposals also from the opposition - he declares - and if they are good I will bring them to the table, it being understood that the majority has been working for days". The League leader's response is positive even if a certain sarcasm transpires: "I read that the President of the Council, his kindness, said that if there are intelligent proposals, he will even bring them to the Council of Ministers. We are honored to have such great attention ".
But then Salvini and Renzi continue to be a "river in flood". Also regarding the decision to open an investigation by the Public Prosecutor on the management of the Coronavirus emergency by some Lombard hospitals: "If the news of an investigation by the Public Prosecutor against the hospitals of Codogno, Casalpusterlengo and Lodi were true , where the Nas of Cremona made an inspection tonight, we would be absurd - he comments - it would be the result of the insinuations of the Prime Minister. Doctors, nurses and volunteers are risking personally to protect many Italians: they deserve protection and thanks ". "I hope journalists have misunderstood", Salvini always adds at the press conference.
A position similar to that of the leader of Italy Viva Matteo Renzi who on Fb invites the country to say "thanks to the doctors, nurses, health personnel, volunteers. Starting with the doctors of Codogno and Lombardy, for days in first line against CoronaVirus ".
Then we move on to the economic aspect that entails the epidemic: "In totally blocked areas - Salvini observes - I refuse to think that the state has come to beat cash from April 1 to businesses, exemptions and suspensions are needed, otherwise it is an outlet round". "With associations and producers we estimate a minimum damage to the Italian economy of no less than 10 billion euros. And the red zone has now become the whole country, because what we are objecting to the government is that some measures concern 11 Italian municipalities, but Venice is actually empty, in Milan one of the largest hotels in the center has a hole of hundreds of thousands of euros in 5 days and neither city is in the red zone. From Monday there are thousands of cancellations in Madonna di Campiglio. .. So that the government limits itself to talking about 11 countries in the province of Lodi is at least an understatement. " And he underlines: "When the memo of the Revenue Agency remembers the deadline of 28 February for the scrapping of ter on the mobile phone of millions of Italians, I think it is an insult to taxpayers. That it should be suspended in the last 11 Municipalities of the red zone and not in the one next to it, it seems to me to be a mockery ... ".
Then, answering the question of why in Italy there was this 'boom' of contagions, Salvini, whose vote in the Senate Immunity Council could slip by 15 days, raises the bar: "Someone is able to defend the public health and someone else doesn't. " And again: "Is this government able to handle this emergency? My answer is no, so we are not available to mess up. If there is a country to take by the hand with a certain date of the elections, we are available, but this is not the government .. ". Then, after having defined the Executive quarrelsome, he hopes that "whoever is in charge, is taking care of it and worries about it. He goes back to blame him directly with Conte:" If you turn the televisions of half of Italy for three days, alarm anyone watch television believe there is alarm. I don't know if Macron and Merkel have behaved in the same way, by eye I think not. "And always making the comparison with France and Germany he insists:" If there had been a problem in a French or German hospital, I don't think the President of the French or German Council would have pointed to French or German doctors as possible perpetrators. "So he also attacks Brussels saying that his silence" is deafening ".
In addition to the leader of brothers from Italy Giorgia Meloni , who goes back to saying that the government "will not endure" and that a law should already be made to be found ready to vote in the aftermath of the referendum on the cut of parliamentarians, there is Renzi is still stirring the waters. First he declares that it would be "absurd to quarrel in moments like this", then adds: "I first gave up the discussion with the premier on the well-known events of the past few weeks because in an emergency we help each other, we don't make war. I find it important that Regions and the Central State give each other a hand, give each other a hand. Not the skirmishes of these days, but the loyal institutional cooperation. We know that there is confusion in the attribution of competence - he adds - and for this reason too we intervened on the point with the constitutional reform, which then failed four years ago. But, since we have not managed to change the Constitution, it is to be hoped that common sense will provide ... ". And launches the appeal to implement "effective measures especially for small and medium-sized enterprises that risk paying a very high price". Because, he continues, "as early as next week we have to start running again with the economy" and "an aspirin will not be enough, very strong measures will be necessary because communication errors have produced enormous damage abroad, as well as in Italy". "We risk an unprecedented economic disaster" and "in our own small way, as Iv will make us feel at all levels to stimulate the institutions to make the right choices".
"Will the truce between majority and opposition hold?" they ask the Action leader, Carlo Calenda , "I don't have the faintest idea - he replies - since August I stopped trying to predict the scenarios of Italian politics. Even the wizard Otelma would not be able to"