"Since February, I would have expected De Luca to implement a different safety net. I see few steps forward, and not particularly effective. This calls politics to its responsibilities, especially regional ones, given that healthcare has been regionalized for some time," said the mayor of Naples Luigi De Magistris in an interview with TPI.
“We needed swabs, doctors on the front lines, intensive care beds. Instead, there was the muscular politics of propaganda. Now not only what was not done is coming out, but also what was not built in these few months,” said the mayor. “It is very serious that the mayor of the regional capital and seat of the metropolitan city that represents 56 percent of the population of Campania does not participate in the crisis unit by will of the president: we are excluded from the most specific decisions. I believe there is a desire not to transmit the data in an elaborate manner. Now Conte should intervene: until now the government has pretended not to see these serious violations of institutional relations because there were the Regional elections,” he said.
Article published on 10 October 2020 - 20:21
