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Why the mayors rant against Conte’s Dpcm. Conte-Lamorgese mess?

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Why the mayors rant against Conte's Dpcm. Conte-Lamorgese mess?

The protests of the mayors against Conte's Dpcm of 18 October and the government's backlash: in the decree published – contrary to what was announced and specified by the Prime Minister – the mayors are not mentioned. So who and how should decide? Eyes also on the Interior Ministry for the mess …

Yellow mayors in the Dpcm. With (unclear) clarification from the Interior Ministry. Here are all the details.

Surprise in the Dpcm of 18 October published in the Official Gazette: during the night, in fact, the draft of the document, illustrated the previous evening by the Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte, during a press conference , changed. In the first version, the mayors had the right to close streets and squares after 21 ( as announced by Conte on TV ), in the presence of gatherings. In the final version – perhaps due to protests by the Anci – the reference to the mayors has disappeared.

The position of the Interior Ministry? “With the Prefects and in the Provincial Committees, it will be possible to evaluate particularly delicate cases in which it is necessary, opportune and possible to close streets or squares to the public”, said Achille Variati, the Undersecretary of the Interior with delegation to local authorities.

THE NEW VERSION OF DCPM

Let's start with the latest news. In the final version of the Dpcm it is possible to close streets and squares in the presence of gatherings, but it is not specified who can and must do it, or even how.

"The streets or squares in urban centers, where gathering situations can be created, can be closed to the public after 9.00 pm, without prejudice to the possibility of access, and outflow, to legitimately open businesses and homes private ”, reads the decree.

THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF COUNT

Let's take a step back. On Sunday 18 October, during the press conference , confirming the rumors that had been circulating in the past few hours, Conte announced that: "The mayors will be able to close the streets and squares where gatherings are created to the public after 9pm, allowing access only to those who have to reach businesses or private homes ".

THE PROTESTS OF DE CARO

Words that have aroused many controversies. “The government wanted to shift the responsibility for the curfew on the mayors: it is not possible for the mayors to close the squares and the streets of nightlife. The mayors cannot control, which is why we have demanded that the word mayor disappear from the text of the Dpcm ”, said Antonio Decaro, mayor of Bari and president of Anci (the association of Italian municipalities).

“We don't like spot ordinances: if there can't be controls, the rule is meaningless. An institutional incorrectness has been committed, we will no longer participate in directorial meetings because the presence of mayors is useless. Ministers meet with regional presidents and decide independently. The government decides without taking into account local needs ”. added Decaro.

THE TWEET OF THE RAYS

The words of Decaro were followed, in turn, by those of numerous other mayors of Italy. Among the first to protest, on Twitter, there was the mayor Raggi: “Will the mayors have to order Covid closures and restrictions? There is a lack of data, information, police forces and adequate tools for the request .. We are waiting to read Dpcm ”, wrote the mayor of Rome on the social platform.

GORI: IMPOSSIBLE MEASURE

Giorgio Gori, mayor of Bergamo, also speaks of impracticability: "The rule included in the Prime Ministerial Decree which attributes to the mayors the task of closing squares and streets at risk of crowding after 9 pm, as well as constituting an obvious discharge of responsibility on the municipalities, is impracticable with the only (scarce) local police force. It must be removed or changed ".

And still on Twitter, Gori adds: “To close a square with five access routes, at least 10 agents are needed. Who has them? But then – says the DPCM – we must allow access to businesses and homes. How is it checked? What if people move and congregate in the next street? Inapplicable. "

DE MAGISTRIS: CERINO IN THE HANDS OF THE MAYORS

"The Prime Minister announced that the Mayors will be able to adopt partial curfews, of streets and squares, from 9 pm. Knowing the institutional sensitivity of the President Conte and the cohesion that must characterize this very difficult period that our Republic is experiencing, I cannot believe that yes both deliberately and from above, without consulting the mayors of Italy on this point, have chosen to unload an impracticable decision on us ”, commented the mayor of Naples, Luigi de Magistris.

“The effect of the words spoken by the Prime Minister in front of millions of Italians and Italians will be to leave the mayors once again with the match in hand. The State therefore chooses to point the finger to hide what has not been done, in many parts of the country, to strengthen the territorial public health network. I feel bitterness, despair and disappointment for a state that does not have the sensitivity, the will and the foresight to put its citizens and those who represent them at the center, with their bare hands, on the territory, with few human resources and often without a euro. After 9 months from the outbreak of the pandemic, it is a sign of weakness and lack of clarity of the state not being able to guarantee control of the territory and dump it on the mayors who often have neither staff nor money to pay overtime ”, added de Magistris.

"President Conte – asks de Magistris – correct the shot, make the general who is close to the soldiers who fight on the front line with little food and few weapons and who try, every day, to stem the social, economic and labor epidemic and contain the advance of the criminal contagion ".

EYE: DOWNLOADABLE AND DEMAGOGY

Protests on Facebook also by the mayor of Cosenza Mario Occhiuto: "Problems with blame and demagogy are not solved".

"In any case, in Cosenza in this period in which infections are increasing exponentially, we will organize a municipal police service after 9 pm to monitor and invite the boys to avoid standing gatherings, but always without excessive alarmism and without attitudes of" mayor " sheriff "whom I have always rejected and despised," added Occhiuto.

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DARIO NARDELLA

“I know that the situation is difficult but leaving the choice of areas to impose and control the #copfew on the shoulders of us mayors is impossible. The Government run for cover right away and change this rule. #dpcm #conferenzastampa ”, the mayor of Florence Dario Nardella echoed on Twitter.

THE TRANSPORT PROBLEM

Not just road and square closures. "Also in terms of transport, we mayors found ourselves in a situation similar to that of the curfew: we asked to reduce the load capacity of the vehicles by increasing the offer and to stagger the entrance hours of high schools but they told us that neither one thing nor the other could be done and that we mayors had to organize a coordination table with the school administrators and convince them to stagger the hours ”, added to Radio Capita l the mayor of Bari and president of Anci, Antonio Decaro.

“We were asking to decongest, because it is true that the Scientific Technical Committee says that we can have a load capacity of up to 80% but this means having almost 5 people per square meter. It is also clear that psychologically, if we tell citizens no more than six people at home, a distance of one meter, parties cannot be held, maximum thirty people if they are unrepeatable parties, and then they all find themselves crushed in the bus, even if there is an obligation to wear a mask, someone wonders is something happening ”.

THE POSITION OF THE WICKER

“With the new Dpcm, the State does not abandon the Municipalities or invest them with improper responsibilities: the first citizens, who are local health authorities, will obviously be supported in everything by the Prefects, in the appropriate provincial public order committees. And it is precisely with the Prefects and in the Provincial Committees that particularly delicate cases will be assessed in which it is necessary, appropriate and possible to close streets or squares to the public ”, said Achille Variati, Undersecretary of the Interior with delegation to local authorities.

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/perche-i-sindaci-sbraitano-contro-il-dpcm-di-conte-pasticcio-conte-lamorgese/ on Mon, 19 Oct 2020 13:50:58 +0000.