Both the liberalization of the energy market and the obligation of vaccines at school have been postponed for a year. This is what emerged from the Milleproroghe decree passed on Friday 3 August by the government. The vaccination obligation for kindergarten children has therefore been moved by a year, according to what was established by the Senate assembly which gave the go-ahead to the two amendments by Lega and Cinque Stelle, already approved in the commission: the obligation to present the vaccination certificate for access to kindergarten starts from the 2019-2020 school year. The provision will have to have the definitive ok from the Chamber, but it is already causing discussion for a choice that in fact risks annulling the Lorenzin law on compulsory vaccination. And there is a clash within the majority itself, especially on the grillino front. In fact, among those against the Five Star Senator Elena Fattori who in the Chamber recalled the immunosuppressed children defined by the Higher Institute of Health as "at risk of school exclusion": "I respect the choice of my group, but due to my personal, professional and painfully from a mother, I can do nothing but dissociate myself and cast an indignant vote against".
Even Giorgio Trizzino, a deputy from Palermo also from the 5 Star Movement, and medical director of a pediatric hospital dissociates himself: "I have seen children die". But the party mate and vice president of the Senate Paola Taverna explains that the measure is used to “allow families to vaccinate their children and to do it in environments that are able to welcome them, not like today's vaccination centers, more similar to those where the animals are sent". The extension was voted pending a new bill that will be presented by the 5 Stars. Oppositions arise which instead define the postponement as an "irresponsible choice" (Forza Italia), of an "unheard-of gravity and which jeopardizes the health of Italians (Pd). And the former Minister of Health Beatrice Lorenzin speaks of “victory of the no Vax: in fact the law on the obligation has been cancelled, the consequence is now the strong risk of a decrease in vaccination coverage and new epidemics for various diseases; for example, hospitalizations for measles continue and the epidemic is not over”.
I also refer, again to the Constitutional Affairs Committee, also for the definitive stop to the enhanced protection regime of the energy markets which is therefore postponed to July 2020 (instead of the initially planned July 2019, i.e. in less than a year). The measure - explained the undersecretary of the Mise Davide Crippa - "has become indispensable considering that, given the previous deadline of July 2019, the necessary guarantees of information for consumers do not exist, market, competitiveness and transparency. The government will work with sector operators and consumers in order to achieve the fundamental objective of guaranteeing the community an efficient, sustainable and transparent energy market”. At the end of 2017, of the 30 million households that had an electricity supply contract, around 60% were "covered" by the protected electricity market. In the gas sector, the percentage is slightly higher: out of 20 million contracts, 63%, equal to approximately 12,6 million, are under the enhanced protection regime. The decree then extends to 30 June 2019 the calls for immediate repairs for damaged buildings in earthquake-stricken areas.
