Bridge on the Strait: because they quarreled Salvini and Mattarella (again)

The bridge over the Strait? It will be done. The Minister of Infrastructure is certainly Matteo Salviniwhich on Monday 19 May announced the approval of the Infrastructure Decree in the Council of Ministers. Too bad that, before inserting it in the Official Gazette, under consideration of the Quirinale, the decree was amended for the part dedicated to anti -mafia checks, which Salvini and the Minister of the Interior Matteo planted They had foreseen to transfer to the centralized structure for the anti -mafia prevention of the Ministry of the Interior, to “increase the controls on infiltrations”.

The decisive stop by Mattarella

The Presidency of the Republic explained: “The standard on anti -mafia controls was not contained in the text in advance to the Quirinale, but appeared a few hours before the meeting of the Council of Ministers. The legislation in force contemplates rigorous anti -mafia standards for works such as the Messina bridge. The proposed rule instead provided for a special procedure – adopted so far only in emergency cases, such as earthquakesor special events, such as the Olympics – which is not at all more severe than ordinary rules. Suffice it to remember that the special procedure, which was proposed, also authorizes to derogate from some rules provided for by the anti -mafia code, derogations not allowed by the ordinary rules for strategic works of national interest “.

Salvini’s pigeon answer

Salvini’s response was not long in coming. In a note, the Ministry of Infrastructure writes: «The infrastructure is in force. When conversion, the MIT strongly hopes that Parliament can evaluate the importance of some additions, starting from the strengthening of anti -mafia controls on the bridge over the strait to which the ministers Matteo Salvini and Matteo planted have already worked, with the contribution of the ministries of the economy, defense and justice “. Then referring to the sender the insinuation that you want to “make fast” on the checks and announcing that it will be during the conversion process in law of the decree, in Parliament, which will discuss the anti -mafia procedures.

It is not the first time

In short, a decisive stop of the Quirinale and a pigeon response from the Ministry, a complaint in which he would be trying to mediate brothers of Italy. A special procedure cannot be applied, says Mattarella, because there is no urgency as in cases of environmental disasters or curtain 2026. In short, we are likely. As we had already explained, not only the government occurs again to the decrees law instead of the parliament to legislatemode that has always been criticized by the Quirinale, and again is the President of the Republic to have to stem the distortions of the proposed rules. The last time Salvini and Mattarella had found themselves disagreement had happened in mid -April, with the findings of the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella on the so -called “Morandi law”, on the compensation to the relatives of the victims of the collapse of the Morandi bridge in Genoa in August 2018.