Fines cancelled for no vax, Fi's discontent. Doctors: wrong choice, then fines must be removed for everyone

The final version arrives with the State Audit Office's 'stamping' on the milleproroghe decree that cancels the fines for the no vax of the Covid (but without the possibility for those who have already paid the fine to ask for a refund) and a crack opens in the majority: within Forza Italia many consider the government's choice a mistake. Starting from Licia Ronzulli, an Italian senator and vice-president of the Senate, and Giorgio Mulè, a Fi deputy and vice-president of the Chamber of Deputies.

The undersecretary for Health Marcello Gemmato (Fratelli d'Italia) tries to extinguish the controversy, recalling that it is 'a measure that we had already announced, a commitment kept. We are also talking about trivially bureaucratic aspects: creating litigation for 100 euros means causing damage to the state coffers or, in any case, an enormous bureaucratisation in an Italy that does not need any more bureaucracy'.

"If fines are to be taken away, then let them be taken away from everyone. If, on the other hand, they are to be maintained, then everyone should pay them. Two weights and two measures are not good,' says Filippo Anelli, president of the Fnomceo (National Federation of the Orders of Doctors, Surgeons and Dentists). For Anelli 'they had to remove the sanctions from everyone, that is, even those who paid'. because 'beyond the merits of the issue - that is, that it was a particular historical moment, such as the Covid, in which the government then decided, in my opinion legitimately, to protect citizens through the green pass - today the problem no longer exists. And so it is a problem of education, of fairness to citizens'.

Very critical of the measure adopted by the government is Ronzulli: 'That of the no vax was anything but a battle for freedom and I hope that during the discussion of the Milleproroghe in the parliamentary chambers, the majority will remember this and retrace their steps'. Mulè was even more explicit: 'I do not vote for amnesty to fines'.

Davide Faraone, leader of Italia Viva's group in the Chamber of Deputies, tries to insert himself in the split in the majority: 'If for Forza Italia the cancellation of fines to no vax is "a slap in the face to the laws of the State and a danger to the population", the solution is simple: when it comes to voting, Fi will act accordingly.