POWER — The duel between Giorgia Meloni ed Elly Schlein is announced by the music of Ennio Morricone. They precede, in a Power that has returned to winter, the final rally of the former prime minister for the reconfirmation of the outgoing governor Vito Bardi. But the battleground is not the American desert of Spaghetti Westerns but the wards of Italian hospitals, the scene of two opposing truths. That of the Prime Minister, who in front of an audience that is struggling to fill up – to the point that the presenter asks the militants sheltering under the porticoes to concentrate in the square – accuses the left of “fake news”, of “moralising about taxes which are beautiful, as Schlein says, because you pay for healthcare: don’t tell us that we are the government that has put the most money into the healthcare fund in the history of Italy.” In Rionero in Vulture — one of the five cities visited by the national secretary of the Democratic Party on her tour to support the candidacy of Piero Marrese governor of Basilicata – Schlein had specified, however, that spending has decreased in relation to GDP. «Numbers are not an opinion», replies Meloni, who claims his «134 billion euros in 2024 on healthcare. And in relation to gross domestic product the percentage is 6.88, the highest ever.”
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by our correspondent Davide Carlucci
Schlein’s rejoinder: «It is denied by his own government: in the budget law it clearly emerges that health spending on GDP is falling to pre-pandemic levels. The data is there for all to see and the Pnrr decree certifies a further cut of 1.2 billion euros to healthcare which also affects the safety of hospitals”. And he cites the president of Friuli as proof Massimiliano Fedrigahead of the State-Regions conference: «In his voice», he says, «the center-right governors speak openly about dismantling the national health system».
The other disagreement concerns doctors and nurses. «We increased their salaries. And we intervened on tokenist doctors, a great thing that the left invented, is the true privatization of public health. We sent checks and discovered that they earned up to three times more than doctors employed by the national public service.” The dem leader, on Thursday, holding her first rally of the day in front of the Matera hospital, had also cited the case of the token operators, but explaining that the phenomenon is a consequence of the failure to recruit white coats: «The law that sets a limit she also approved it, as a minister in the Berlusconi government, in 2004. Now the doctors and nurses are exhausted, the situation cannot be resolved with incentives for overtime.” And yesterday you reiterated: «Instead of making propaganda, Meloni puts in more resources and releases the hiring cap, to prevent the departments from emptying and the waiting lists from continuing to grow».
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But it is not only on healthcare that the two leaders speak different languages. They are also poles apart on differentiated autonomy, a topic that in Basilicata embarrasses Bardi himself, who in a video released by his opponents tries “to clarify” but ends up saying: “I am neither against nor for” . The centre-left, which is trying to reconquer Basilicata, is focusing heavily on this topic and Schlein, visiting the southernist’s house Justin Fortunato, had branded the reform as “bad”, “a vulgar power pact” in which the government “does not invest a single euro”: “We have never seen a patriot who splits Italy in two”. The prime minister knows that this is an Achilles’ heel in this southern region: «Certain slogans are easy to convey. Imagine if I, who believe in a united Italy more than anything, could leave half of this nation behind. But what is the presupposition of differentiated autonomy? It is the identification of essential levels of performance. Which have never been identified. So yes, there was a gap between territories”, assures the number one of Fratelli d’Italia, glossing over the responsibilities of centre-right governments. Shortly before, in addition to Antonio Tajanispoke Matteo Salvini. And you want to make it known that the government will not take any steps backwards on the Calderoli reform. «It doesn’t mean that I take from one region to give to another. It means, much more simply, that if I have a virtuous region that spends its money well, the State can give that region new skills to manage.”
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– 2024-04-30 03:28:24
