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30 April 2020The Court of Ferrara has "ascertained the discriminatory nature of the conduct carried out by the Municipality and for it by its Council" as regards the criteria for the delivery of the shopping vouchers, and orders the administration led by the Northern League Alan Fabbri to "reformulate the criteria and methods without the discriminatory clauses ". The Ferrarese judiciary has put a stop in the quarrel that has dragged on for almost a month on the resolution of the Municipality, accepting the appeal presented by the associations: Asgi (Association for legal studies on immigration), The other law, Humanity and CGIL association , Cisl and Uil.

Shopping vouchers for everyone
The device states that those criteria are discriminatory in that they "contain, for non-EU foreigners, the residence permit requirement, rather than just the requirements relating to the condition of economic hardship and domiciliation in the municipal territory". In addition, the part of the resolution that "sets an order of priority in favor of Italian citizens, therefore of members of the European Union and, finally, of non-EU citizens" was also considered discriminatory. Hence the decision to "order the Municipality to reformulate the criteria" without the offending clauses, "allowing the submission of new applications, setting a suitable term and attributing to the new applicants the same amount attributed to the first applicants who were in the same condition, applying the same criteria for one and the other ".

The mayor counterattacks
The order of the court that judges the conduct of the Municipality of Ferrara as "discriminatory" on vouchers is "a real attack on Italy and on the categories of people who have always worked and paid taxes and who already maintain too many asylum seekers' own costs ". The Northern League mayor Alan Fabbri wrote on Facebook that the judge's ruling "jeopardizes the shopping vouchers for many families". 

The attack of the Democratic Party
On his Facebook page the deputy of the Democratic Party, Luca Rizzo Nervo, says: "A few weeks ago I wrote about the discriminatory and illegitimate nature of the regulation of the Municipality of Ferrara (among others) for the delivery of shopping vouchers ", also remembering that the first citizen of Ferrara" in a video had mocked my stance by saying that it was based on false legal assumptions, and in any case by saying, as he repeated to the opposition of his city during these weeks, 'you won't stop me' ". But "in a rule of law the law has thought of stopping it", the exponent dem added, adding that "on the subject of too many Municipalities that have chosen this discriminatory path" he presented a question to the Ministry of the Interior.

Communicative games
Even harder the co-coordinator from Ferrara of Emilia-Romagna Brave, Leonardo Fiorentini. He affirms that "the communicative and low bureaucracy games brought in these days by the mayor, who never answered the questions asked in the institutional and in the press, have been worth nothing in front of the judge". Fabbri, attacks Fiorentini, "has violated the Consolidated Law on Immigration which, let us remember, has been named after its creators Bossi and Fini since 2002". At this point "it is clear that the Municipality will have to put its budget back to hand, hopefully like the Municipality of Bologna, which has effectively doubled the funds received from the State". In any case, "it is clear from the outset that we will not accept inefficient and opaque procedures such as those used up to now for the allocation of vouchers, and we will continue to strive for equity and social justice to be restored as soon as possible".