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Letizia Moratti resigns: "There is no trust with Fontana"

2022-11-02T17:23:13.528Z


Delegations of Vice President and Councilor for Welfare of the Lombardy Region have been remitted. For Moratti, it is "a strong sign of the slowness and difficulties in the action of this Administration". Fontana replies: "Look to the left and not from today" and then appoints Guido Bertolaso ​​as councilor for Welfare. Berlusconi: 'Bertolaso ​​competent servant of the state' (ANSA)


"Faced with the

breakdown of the relationship of trust with the President Attilio Fontana

, I

announce the decision to remit the powers of Vice President and Councilor for Welfare of the Lombardy Region

".

Letizia Moratti

announces it

in a note.

"Out of respect for the citizens - she explains - with a sense of responsibility and in consideration of the delicate socio-economic situation in the country, I awaited the outcome of the political elections and the formation of the new government to make my position known".

Lombardia, Fontana: 'Moratti now close to the center left, perplexed by his criticisms'

For Moratti, this is "a strong signal with respect to the slowness and difficulties in the action of this Administration, which in my opinion no longer responds to the interest of the Lombard citizens".

A choice "of clarity that I take full responsibility for, also in consideration of the contradictory measures taken in the fight against the pandemic". 

"The doubts I had expressed about the political positioning of Letizia

Moratti

were well founded. It is clear that she is

looking to the left and not from today

": this is how the president of Lombardy

Attilio Fontana

after the resignation of Letizia Moratti.

Guido Bertolaso ​​will be

the new Lombardy Welfare Councilor

.

He was appointed by the president of the Region Attilio Fontana after the resignation of Letizia Moratti.

"We immediately proceed with the appointment of a welfare councilor who deals exclusively with the needs of citizens, without political distractions, starting with interventions on the waiting lists - explained Fontana - For this reason, after informing the leaders of the center-right, I decided to entrust the delegation of Welfare to Dr. Guido Bertolaso, protagonist of the vaccination campaign in Lombardy and profound connoisseur of the operating machinery of the Lombard health system ".

"Guido Bertolaso ​​is a generous and competent servant of the state.

He was an excellent head of Civil Protection in my governments and then a very efficient commissioner for vaccines against Covid for the Lombardy Region, but, first of all, he is a doctor. I'm a doctor. glad he accepted to become Lombardy Health Councilor. Best wishes to him for a good job ".

The president of Forza Italia, Silvio Berlusconi, writes on social media.

ANSA agency

Fontana, Letizia Moratti looks to the left and not from today - Lombardy

"The doubts I had expressed about the political positioning of Letizia Moratti were well founded. It is clear that she is looking to the left and not from today": this is how the president of Lombardy Attilio Fontana after the resignation of Letizia Moratti.

Letizia Moratti's note


The commitment of recent months (on Covid) "has led Lombardy to be among the first areas in the world for membership and coverage: a success to be proud of and which is now being questioned by measures that I do not agree with", he added. Moratti.

"On the one hand - he continued - I positively acknowledge that the line I established for Lombard citizens was to follow the opinion of the experts of the Lombard Control Room that I activated on the obligation of masks in hospitals and Rsa";

on the other hand, "I register with concern the choice to anticipate the reintegration of doctors and other unvaccinated health professionals, the amnesty of the no vax fines and the different sensitivity on the importance of vaccines".

"Emblematic" examples of a "

The resignation of Letizia Moratti as councilor for welfare and vice president of the Lombardy Region "

it is clear that they were something I expected

. Moratti did what Fontana did not have the courage to do, that is to acknowledge that there was no longer any trust ".

Thus the mayor of Milan

Giuseppe Sala

commented on the resignation of Letizia Moratti.

"Because there was no relationship of trust, I said several times ago, a councilor is not elected but appointed on the basis of a relationship of trust by the mayor or the president of the region - he concluded -. things have been like this for a long time now. "

"Letizia Moratti was courageous in resigning Attilio Fontana from the bad government. Moratti did an excellent job during the vaccination campaign, which before then was in a chaos unworthy for a large European region. I am sure that in the future it will be able to do so. make a positive contribution in regional or national policy. "

Thus in a note the leader of the Third Pole

Carlo Calenda

.

"After today's events, we believe that this disastrous government experience must end. We await the

resignation of the disheartened President Fontana

, at the helm of an inactive council blocked by the flight of the councilors to Parliament".

The leader of

the Five Star Movement in Lombardy, Nicola Di Marco, writes in a note.

"Letizia Moratti's decision to resign as vice president and councilor for welfare of the Lombardy Region demonstrates coherence and courage".

This was stated by

Mariastella Gelmini

, national deputy secretary and spokesperson for Action.

Source: ansa

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