• Verona, due to movida it is forbidden to drink standing in front of the premises
  • Phase 2: nightlife in Brescia, stop at the square on the weekend at 21.30
  • Phase 2, Conte a Camera e Senato: "It is not time for nightlife, from 25 May the serological tests will start"
  • Count: it is not a time for nightlife or parties, otherwise the curve of contagion goes up
  • Phase 2, Zaia: "Too many nightlife videos around, if they increase contagion I close everything"
  • 60,000 civic assistants arriving to supervise Phase 2
  • Phase 2, Palazzo Chigi: civic assistants will not be in charge of public service
  • Civic assistants, Decaro (Anci): "Mayors left alone. Stop debates, give us solutions"

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May 26, 2020 The civic assistants proposed by Boccia and Decaro to monitor the excesses of the nightlife trigger the controversy with criticisms from both the opposition and a part of the majority. They will not have police duties, Palazzo Chigi points out, and Minister Paola De Micheli adds that they must not have "a controlling role", but rather be "assistants, facilitators" of public order. From Naples De Magistris summarizes: no "anti gathering patrols", but assistance is needed for markets, beaches and public places. Conte runs for cover and convenes a majority meeting during which, according to government sources, the theme of civic assistants is present. Yesterday, after the summit on civic guards at Palazzo Chigi that seemed to have dispelled the doubts on the table, the M5s returned to express its dissent, asking for a political confrontation to reach a possible agreement on the topic. Meanwhile, the controversy continues.

Hope: "Energies at the service of the mayors"
"It seems to me that there has been a clarification of the government in these hours on civic assistants: they will be energies made available to our mayors in a particular way and will have absolutely no security function but an accompaniment solidarity initiatives and social services; they are energies at the service of our mayors ". Health Minister Roberto Speranza told Sky.

Anzaldi: "Was the announcement on Tg1 agreed?"
"Minister Boccia in the Press not only maintains that Palazzo Chigi had been kept informed about the call for civic assistants, but that the methods of communicating the announcement had been agreed with the Prime Minister, or the live interview with Tg1 at 8 pm on Sunday with lots of blue bibs to show to the millions of viewers. Is that true? The Prime Minister Conte and his spokesman Casalino agreed with Boccia on the interview with Tg1? It is necessary that clarity be made ". The deputy of Italia Viva and secretary of the Rai Supervisory Commission, Michele Anzaldi wrote it on Facebook. 

Variari (Internal): "They are volunteers who give advice"
"We will never give consent to patrols, sheriffs or civic guards, controls and sanctions are the matter of law enforcement: the civic assistant will be a volunteer with functions of mere utility and solidarity social to help local communities and mayors. If instead they become a kind of civic guard then this instead of helping causes problems for the police ". Achille Variati, Undersecretary of the Interior, said on Radio 24. "Today and tomorrow we will work between the various ministries to better define the functions that these figures can have".

Fornaro: "Those who exalted the Padane patrols are against it"
"It was nothing short of amazing to read declarations of fire against civic assistants, just by those who in recent years have exalted the patrols (Po and non-Po) of citizens like the panacea on the subject clarified, if ever there was a need, that in the government no one is in the grip of security drives and therefore no civic patrol will circulate for our cities, the problem posed by the mayors of help to manage a complex phase like that remains coexistence with Covid19 ". This was stated by the group leader of Liberi e Uguali in the Chamber, Federico Fornaro.

Melons: "They are state guards"
Civic assistants? "They are municipal voyeurs, it's an idiot that doesn't make any sense." Giorgia Meloni said this while speaking on Un Giorno da Pecora on Rai Radio1. The president of Fratelli d'Italia claimed in Rome that "he has not seen such tragic things, ste movide ... all with the mask on, even if there is no obligation to do so". In any case "then 'sti guardians of the state are neither in heaven nor on earth ...". Civic assistants, he continued, "either are useless, because they have no authority, or have public official status ... and then we are facing South America, it is as if we were facing the militia of a dictatorship ".

Zaia: "They will never enter the field"
"It seems clear to me, from the debate that was born within the government, that the project will never see the light. And if it sees it, it will be something else". So the president of Veneto. Zaia points out that "from a human point of view it is a defeat to think that we have educators on this matter. I think that if you close like this it's good. That you close your own".

Mayor of Foggia: "Proposed from a forward show"
"I have decided to issue an ordinance prohibiting the consumption of food and drink, in any container, in parks and public places. Food and drink can be consumed inside and near the activities. There will be a task force from the police force dedicated to checks in the evening meeting places, especially on weekends and during the bridge on June 2nd ". This was announced by the mayor of Foggia, Franco Landella. "I expected from the government effective solutions to this problem affecting the whole country and not proposed by the show as civic assistants who cannot carry out control tasks".

Richetti: "We are ridiculous"
"No change of pace is needed, another government is needed. We are ridiculous: civic assistants, paternalistic press conferences, task forces for every question. The time for improvisation is over, now we need a government that know the problems to solve and have clear solutions. Action is ready to do its part ". Action Senator Matteo Richetti says so.

Mollicone: "Weird idea"
"This government on civic assistants proceeds on sight, in an improvised way". This was stated by the deputy of Fratelli d'Italia and group leader in the Culture Commission, Federico Mollicone, during the Rai3 Agorà broadcast.

De Magistris: "Useful if they are needed to restart"
"The fact that there are all these different positions suggests how confusing the government is facing this Phase 2 in particular. If they are presented as anti-gathering patrols I am totally against it. we explain well that they are people who can help the restart of the communities for example with assistance to civil protection, assistance to the use of public beaches, assistance on the markets, assistance on occupations of public land, which in Naples we are always giving more pedestrianized the city, then they are figures that can reassure, it can be useful to make these people work if they are obviously paid ". So thinks the mayor of Naples, De Magistris.

Gasparri. "Go back"
"It is painful the fool of the so-called Minister Boccia and the President of the Anci Decaro, who after trying to impose the Red Guards-Vopos on the Italians, creating a confusion that has also disgusted the ministries of the Interior and Defense, they take a pathetic backtrack. They say now that their Vopos will have to do social work and bring parcels. " This was stated by Senator Maurizio Gasparri, coordinator of the Department of Local Authorities of Forza Italia.

Siracusano: "Yet another short circuit"
"Francesco Boccia sold to the media the story of the recruitment of 60 thousand civic guards not as his proposal, but as a decision already taken by the government and ready to become operational. Yesterday was denied by almost all partners who make up the Giallorossi executive: Ministry of the Interior, Ministry of Labor, Ministry of Defense, Vito Crimi and Matteo Renzi, in the lead. In the evening, Prime Minister Conte had to invent a peacemaking summit at Palazzo Chigi to save face and contain the damage. Either the minister told a fandonia (it would not be the first time) or all the actors who support the Count Bis have fled in retreat after the obvious reactions to this absurd hypothesis. In any case it would be the case that someone, maybe just the Minister for Regional Affairs, explain this umpteenth and ridiculous short circuit ". So Matilde Siracusano, MP from Forza Italia.

Toti: "Mayors need resources"
"The problem with civic assistants is that we need to understand what they can do. Volunteering is welcome, but I think it would have been appropriate to give more resources to the mayors". The governor of Liguria, Giovanni Toti, writes it on Twitter.

Bernini: "What a confusion"
"The government has had to deny itself on the establishment of an anti-movida civil guard, but it is not clear what agreement has been reached and what the sixty thousand foreseen by the Civil Protection call will have to do. volunteers from the same Civil Protection, in fact, have already warned against using them also to provide assistance to those who, exposed to particular conditions of fragility, need them. These activities require training, training and certainly cannot be entrusted to improvisation of unprepared people. " The president of Forza Italia senators Anna Maria Bernini wrote in a note.

Belotti: "We of the League massacred for the Padanian guards"
"When we talked about patrols they literally slaughtered us, but they were patrols for security, now patrols are being carried out, in fact against entrepreneurs, and someone has the courage, among those who contested and gave us leaguers and of the Nazis, to carry them forward. " Daniele Belotti, from Bergamo, deputy of the League, remembers the years of the Padan guards. It was 1996 when the green shirts, a group of Northern League militants, took charge of managing the order service during the Carroccio events.