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10 July 2020 The state of emergency extended until 31 December. "It has not yet been decided - said the Prime Minister - but reasonably we will go in this direction". Although the general picture remains at "low criticality" - the national RT remains below 1 and the incidence in the last 14 days is 4.3 per 100 thousand people, the circulation of the virus is still "relevant" with the infections still in climbed, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte confirms what technicians from institutions and ministries now took for granted.

The extension could arrive as early as next week: the Dpcm currently in force will expire on July 14th. It is very probable, say government sources, that this could be an opportunity to define the extension, reorder the rules currently in force and for a "systemisation" of the methods of entry into our country.

If indeed the state of emergency were to be extended sources of Palazzo Chigi confirm the intention of President Conte to go through Parliament anyway. 

However, the opposition does not like the government's choice to extend the state of emergency. "The Italians - says the secretary of the League Matteo Salvini - deserve trust and respect. With all possible attention, freedom cannot be canceled by decree". Giorgia Meloni echoes it. "It does not seem to me that there are the conditions for extending the state of emergency until the end of the year - underlines the leader of FdI -, which is an instrument that the government has at its disposal to do a little what it wants, speeding up the steps that otherwise they would need more counterweights. "

Doubts also in the majority underline sources of the Democratic Party and of Iv, who ask for greater collegiality on certain decisions.