Milan, January 16, 2021 – The red zone fa arguing between the Lombardy Region and the Municipality of Milan with a long distance call and response between the governor Attilio Fontana and the mayor Giuseppe Sala. From tomorrow the region will have the highest level of anti-Covid restrictions and the new ordinance of the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza it provokes distinct and distant reactions from local authorities. The first to set fire to the dust of the controversy, in the morning, even before the final decision on Lombardy in the red zone, is the president of the Region Attilio Fontana: “I just spoke to Minister Speranza, the red zone is a punishment that Lombardy he does not deserve it. Should this order arrive, we will propose an appeal “.
Number one of Palazzo Lombardia speaks in the morning, on the sidelines of an event in Concorezzo, and asks for a turn back to the Government even before the official decision on the Lombardy in the red zone: “In my opinion we need to review it – insists the governor – because objectively we are in a phase in which we are improving the numbers and yet there is a risk that we will enter the red zone. The citizens have all behaved very well and sincerely the red zone is extremely penalizing. I asked Speranza to look again, he told me that he will have some more checks done and that he will call the Technical Committee to reassess the situation “. Too late, by now the government had decided to proceed with raising the level of anti-contagion restrictions for Lombardy and Sicily and has not turned back. Not even a further appeal by Fontana to the mayor of Bergamo, the dem Giorgio Gori, who asked for an exemption from the red zone for his city (“Gori urges his political representatives to intervene”), provokes consequences.
The Government’s decisionmeanwhile, effectively makes the pronunciation of the Tar, which had given the Region wrong and parents right on distance learning: on Monday high schools could have held lessons in person, but the red zone clears what was decided by the TAR. “The schools will not reopen”, confirms Fontana. And it is on these words of the governor that Sala’s lunge is inserted: “From Sunday we will be in the red zone. But something is not right. First Lombardy Region decides not to reopen the schools until January 24 (unless it is denied by the TAR). Then Fontana says for days “we are close to the red zone.” Today (yesterday, ed.) They are shouting. Assuming that they have the data in the Region, why don’t they make us understand how things really are? “. Lega and FI immediately lined up alongside Fontana, while the Democratic Party attacks the governor. Meanwhile Walter Ricciardi, councilor of Speranza, underlines that inserting Lombardy in the red zone it is not a punishment: “It is a question of adapting the measures to the circulation of the virus. At the moment in Lombardy and Sicily the virus is circulating more than elsewhere. Unfortunately, if you do not take the measures promptly you have to make them more serious in an emergency”.
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