ROMA (ITALPRESS) – “I take full legal responsibility for what I will say, I put myself to all the consequences, even those pleno iure regarding the elements I am aware of.” Thus the president of the 5 Star Movement and already President of the Council, Giuseppe Conte, in audition in the parliamentary commission of inquiry on the management of the emergency Covid. “I have always assumed the political responsibility of my conduct and statements,” he said.
“I swear to say the truth about my honor that comes first of all to me.” This means “respect to myself and also to all people who have lost their lives because of pandemic, to health workers in trenches, respect for the families of the victims and for all public officials in charge of the essential services to which the state I was representing at that time asked for a huge service”.
This commission was “conceived as a firing squad towards me” and as “a cage of protection against the local administrators of their parties”, he said.
“I have to deposit” in the Commission “a document that came to me anonymously, I examined it and I felt that it was worthy to be reported to the Procura di Roma” to which “I delivered it Monday: it is written on 14 April 2022, to me it arrived with the obscured names but there are all qualifications, counts of ten pages” and it is a report on the “sign of the masks carried out by the company JCRL Electronic “Reading this report, it would appear that all these packages at that time deposited at a deposit would be masks that have no filtering effectiveness and would have a counterfeit representation in the accompanying document,” says Conte. “I have reported to the Procura because there is the possibility that they have been transated to a private company 100 million of the State, which is a remarkable figure. There would be the possibility – all to be ascertained – to assess whether these 100 million were paid for masks that were not corresponding to those that were declared characteristics”, he adds. “I trust that the payment order has not yet been executed, we do these insights of public interest,” says Conte.
“The pandemic represents the most immersive, pervasive and tragic event that the country has lived from post-war to today: for me it is a moral duty to make a contribution of knowledge to analyze in depth what happened. I was sorry that, despite my readiness, I was credited with the idea that I was afraid to speak in front of this commission and all over the country: I have nothing to hide and I have never taken away from my work, on fear and honor I will not accept lessons from those who cannot give them.” “During the Covid we worked in conditions of great difficulty in trying to save the country – adds Conte, – In 2020 alone we saved 330 thousand jobs thanks to the block of dismissals, that we in Italy had the courage to do unlike other countries. This allowed us to start with immediate momentum and be much more competitive: at that time it would have been easy to dismiss for entrepreneurs, instead we were predicted.”.
“Istat tells us that we saved a million people from the state of absolute poverty: with a collective effort we managed to bring in Italy a treasure never seen, from 209 billion, which then became many more with the additional funds; it never happened that a government that settled found a country that ran and a plan already ready to continue growth,” he recalls. “The majority has irresponsible excluded from the scope of investigation of this committee the Regions, which have the legal, economic and social responsibility to manage health: I will submit to all questions of the case, but I will not enter into the merits of what concerns regional administrations.”.
“During the Meloni pandemic, he went on television broadcasts to give me the criminal, but today I don’t know what his contribution was: a few weeks ago he said he was interested in understanding what use was made of public resources. As far as I’m concerned, you’ll never find anything wrong with me, I’ve done my job with discipline and honor: no one can afford to throw shadows on the management of pandemic, because it’s just a political speculation that extends over those people who have struggled to safeguard the national community.” “We must distinguish these subjects, true patriots, from speculators of a serious national and international tragedy – continues Conte – I do not remember any plausible suggestion from this majority to contribute to the salvation of the country during the Covid. As a jurist, I could never have imagined making such decisions as accidents for citizens’ lives, in order to safeguard their health: all governments have been called to take decisions that have had the connotations of tragic choices. The organization of the health system is the responsibility of the Regions, while the State is responsible for dictateing the basic principles of protection and defining the essential levels of benefits“.
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