How the newspapers judged Conte’s latest Prime Ministerial Decree
I Graffi di Damato with comments and reactions to Conte's Dpcm
All right. I obey, much more modestly, like a poor fellow that I am, as did Giuseppe Garibaldi telegraphing on 9 August 1866 to General Alfonso La Marmora, who had ordered him to stop on the road to Trento. Unlike my colleagues, for example, of the 19th century , who shot it all over the front page, I do not call what the Prime Minister has just ordered to deal with the viral epidemic a "curfew".
However, allow me to share the opinion of Aldo Cazzullo, who in the editorial of Corriere della Sera found in the decree just signed by Giuseppe Conte "not a plan for the future" but "a declaration of bankruptcy for the past", because " 'inability to prevent the second, highly announced wave of the pandemic ”.
Even Marco Travaglio – yes, he himself, the director of the Fatto Quotidiano who often collects first, anticipates decisions and suggests the Prime Minister, as I seemed to do yesterday by projecting the incoming decree towards saving Christmas, actually evoked da Conte in his press conference at Palazzo Chigi – opened his editorial today by writing that he “disagrees with the latest Dpcm”. Moreover, he assigned the number 22 of the anti-pandemic series, against the 11 mentioned by others. But written by him, you have to believe him because he has a political archive which, if it is equal to the judicial one, must be unbeatable, net of the omissions or mutilations convenient to his controversies of the day.
To so much effort of objectivity in recognizing the limits of the latest Labor decree, however, he added recognition to Conte of having "used the right words and tones, as almost always since the beginning of the pandemic, to sound the alarm without spreading alarmism", despite having recovered from an enormous political fatigue as described, with a hint of persistent concern: "We do not know if, after the surrender of the other night to the more hysterical and less reflective wing of the government and the majority, he regained full political control ". "But at least – he added, always referring to Conte – he gave the impression with a dry, firm, balanced speech, skilled in masking the cacophonic babel of the thousand institutions that have got their hands in the Dpcm". Which was therefore “the least coherent and rational of the collection”.
Probably on the strength of news, confidences and anything else passed to him by the official spokesman of Conte and Palazzo Chigi Rocco Casalino , temporarily away from his office because he was infected, like the spokesman of Sergio Mattarella and the Quirinale, Travaglio said that to get his hands in 'last and least successful decree were "ministers, deputy ministers, undersecretaries, consultants, Quirinale, party leaders, technical-scientific committee, metropolitan mayors, regional presidents, mayors, trade associations, obviously no one in agreement with the others ".
As unintentionally as he self-harmed Travaglio could not better expose the government turmoil run by "his" Count: the man given to us by Providence through that singular champion of the comedy that is Beppe Grillo.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/come-i-giornali-hanno-giudicato-lultimo-dpcm-di-conte/ on Mon, 26 Oct 2020 14:10:57 +0000.