"If we had been in Salvini's hands, there would be 300,000
Covid
victims
instead of 140,000"
.
The words of the microbiologist
Andrea Crisanti
, the leading candidate in Europe with the
Democratic Party
, ignite the clash between the center-
right
and the
center
-left and forcefully bring the Covid theme back into the electoral campaign.
If
Matteo Salvini
, cutting edge, limits himself to citing the Paduan virologist,
Giorgio Palù
who defined Crisanti "an expert on mosquitoes", his party soon reacted compactly: "Speculating on the dead. Crisanti's attacks on Salvini are nothing short of shameful ".
The request is that the secretary
Enrico Letta
dissociates himself from the words of the expert, but the latter - on the contrary - promptly takes sides with him: "
On the right, the no vax culture prevails
. We remember them the 'open, open, open' ".
Health Minister
Roberto Speranza
adds to the dose: "Unfortunately, on the part of the right, there have been too many ambiguities in this area
of some members of the parties of
Meloni and Salvini".
The force worker Licia Ronzulli
is indignant
: "I proposed the vaccination obligation for health personnel, other than center-right no vax!".
For
Massimiliano Romeo
, leader of the League in the Senate, "while the League-led Regions were at the forefront of fighting the battle against the virus, Crisanti was engaged in his TV show with purposes now known to all".
Nicola Zingaretti
answers him
, dem governor and now leader in Lazio: "If Italy has defeated Covid, it is thanks to us and to the trust we have placed in science".
The argument also ends at the center of a triangular question and answer between Letta,
Carlo Calenda
and
Matteo Renzi
.
The latter, in commenting on the microbiologist's race, had expressed the fear "that at the first cold we get a two-month quarantine".
The dem secretary remarks caustically: "The merits of Crisanti's candidacy. Everyone says what he really thinks".
But Calenda is not there: "We have supported all the measures taken by the various governments with loyalty - he promptly remembers -. Do not exploit the pandemic".
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While the controversy rages, the
Nazarene
breathes a sigh of relief for the lists: the bulk is done, now all that remains is to step on the accelerator of the electoral campaign.
Yet, despite the scaffolding of the candidacies is now standing, some filings are not excluded.
A surgical operation that will serve to replace those 'difficult' places that have remained vacant after the renunciations (the deputy Alessia Morani, after having declined the offer, has reconsidered and will run in the Marche), but - perhaps - not only.
At stake there would still be the locations of
Enzo Amendola
, the undersecretary for European affairs of
the Dragh government
i who perhaps expected something more than third place for the Senate in Campania, and that of the constitutionalist Stefano Ceccanti who appears only in the fourth place of one of his Tuscan plurinominal colleagues.
"Contrary to what some write, I am not a candidate for the proportional number 4 Florence-Pisa, which any expert (even a minimum) of electoral law can certainly only be a testimonial", explains Ceccanti, reserving a little more time before expressing himself definitively in this regard. , a "delay" that defines "not unjustified".
And which, therefore, suggests ongoing negotiations.
Someone imagines that, at the last minute, the Monica Cirinnà
issue can also be reopened
.
But from the party mouths sewn.
Certainly the more than 60 single-member constituencies reserved by the Democratic Party for the coalition remain to be defined.
To date, among the few certainties there is the race of Ilaria Cucchi in Florence for the Senate and that of Aboubakar Soumahoro in Modena for the Chamber, colleges deemed safe by the Italian Green-Left Federation which nominated them.
As for the leader of SI,
Nicola Fratoianni
, there is talk of the uninominal of Pisa but he does not confirm: "Bonelli and I (the co-spokesperson of Europa Verde, ed) will certainly be candidates for the proportional", for the rest "in the next few hours you will have definitive answers ".
The leader of Civic Commitment,
Luigi Di Maio
, could be a candidate in Campania, in the uninominal which includes his Pomigliano d'Arco, while
Bruno Tabacci
in Milan.
For
Emma Bonino
we speak of the college of central Rome for the Senate, for the radical Riccardo Magi of Turin 1 for the Chamber.
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