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13 December 2020Groups in the shopping streets along the entire peninsula on the one hand, the risk of a third wave - which according to scientists is about to become certainty - on the other.



At the table convened by Giuseppe Conte to "retouch" the stop to mobility between the municipalities on 25 and 26 December and 1 January, the "penalty takers" are making themselves heard again.

Ok to mini exceptions for small towns, this is the line expressed and shared also by the premier, but no free all.

Rather. 



Tomorrow morning at 10.30 a new meeting will be held with the experts and the Minister of the Interior, Lamorgese, to evaluate, on the basis of the data, whether to adopt more restrictive measures.

It will be decided on the possibility of creating a red zone for holidays and pre-holidays or if the current rules are sufficient with the possibility of moving between municipalities with 5 thousand inhabitants within 30 km. 



The Democratic Party agrees what to do in a meeting of ministers with the group leaders of the Chamber and Senate Delrio and Marcucci, the secretary Zingaretti and the deputy secretary Orlando: "In light of a certain increase in the risk of gatherings due to the holiday period and the recommendations to the prudence and responsibility of the national scientific committee, it is necessary to evaluate the adoption of new measures that guarantee the containment of infections ", make it clear the Dems, who insist on the closure of restaurants during holidays.

The Renzians have strongly opposed the stop to mobility between municipalities and now Teresa Bellanova is asking for "coherence", not recognizing it in the ban on moving between small towns when there are no limits in large cities.

"Let's discuss with the scientific community and decide on coherent and understandable measures - Minister Iv reiterates to the premier - even more restrictive than the current ones, if necessary, but understandable. Because this is the only way citizens will be induced to respect them."



The M5S remains firm on the line firmness. "On the very small municipalities we can reason, it being understood that these would be minimal exceptions to a rigid central directive", let the pentastellati know. Alfonso Bonafede, it is emphasized, has always been sided with the most rigorous wing of the government, together with Dario Franceschini and Roberto Speranza and now applauds the new convergence after the distinctions arrived in recent days. "It is welcome that after the requests of the Dem parliamentarians in the direction of a relaxation, now the whole Pd converges on the need for severe measures.

It is good that even more restrictive measures are requested from IV as long as they are understandable - is the reasoning - because the Government's position on responsibility is realigned.

This continuous change of ideas, however - it is recognized - risks creating disorientation among the citizens and difficulties for the Government. "



The governor of Campania Vincenzo De Luca sinks the blow:" If they open up to mobility among the small municipalities in Palazzo Chigi they must open a psychiatry department - he says - we are talking about 10 million people and there will be nothing to do.

We will have a third wave. "



Tomorrow the majority, before the conference of the group leaders should file a motion to intervene on the Municipalities, to be voted on Wednesday together with the one presented by the center-right, already on the calendar. The hypothesis on which we are working, pending the decision of the Government, is to allow mobility between municipalities under 5 thousand inhabitants based on a kilometer distance. The rule, in reality, would be difficult to apply and not immediately controllable and possibly sanctioned by the police, but the technicians I'm working to make it operational.