By Fabio Massa
Here it is, the latest scandal in the Ligurian affair. Toti and his chief of staff who manipulate the data to get more doses for the Ligurians. Is the gain for the governor in economic terms? Absolutely not. He simply did what was done throughout Italy in that period: he cheated to have more doses, more resources, more money to spend in the territories in a moment of emergency. It makes me smile because during that terrible Covid period they said that Lombardy had invented the data, and then a thousand investigations to ascertain that no, no data had been invented and that everything was in order. And in any case, even today councils of all levels, mayors and governors and presidents of provinces and bodies “adjust” the data here and there to obtain something more for the communities they administer.
But let’s get back to the point. I am ready to bet more than a coffee that if many other regional councils, many other commissioner structures had been intercepted in the Covid era, the outcome would always have been the same: the effort to grab an extra dose at all costs, a dose Before. Because this is asked of a governor, because this is what a governor does: he tries to put his own region before the others. Is there anything to be shocked about? Yes, if we were a regulated system where we don’t play fuck buddy. No, in a system like Italy, where the health system of Lombardy is under accusation while that of Lazio, which has failed over and over again in recent decades, in the red with holes as big as the Colosseum, does nothing but pay off debts . Now, with Francesco Rocca, we’ll see, given that he will file his first real budget at the end of the year having been elected in mid-2023. But this
