There are two main innovations introduced by New pandemic plan 2025-2029sent to the State-Regions Conference, in acceptance of the positions already expressed by the government parties during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The first concerns the weakening of DPCM relating to the limitation of the personal freedomwhile the other concerns the vaccines which are considered useful, but not the only weapons against health emergencies. Exult i No vax For the passage aimed at canceling the “social stigma” for those who invoke vaccination freedom.
What does the new pandemic plan say
The new pandemic plan establishes that in the event of health emergencies that require Lockdown or other restrictions on personal freedom, they will be laws or the acts having the force of law to affect the life of the Italians, and no longer the administrative acts. Farewell, therefore, to the DPCMs (decree of the President of the Council of Ministers) who marked the life of citizens during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The effectiveness of the vaccines is also reiterated, which however are not considered the only tools to combat health emergencies.
The national pandemic plan had expired in 2023. The new text was sent to the State-Regions Conference for approval.
Stop DPCM in case of pandemic
Thus says the new pandemic plan:
(…) In the face of an exceptional pandemic (…) the use of administrative acts is excluded for the adoption of any measure that may be coercive of personal freedom or compressive of civil and social rights. Only with laws or acts having force of law and in compliance with the constitutional principles can temporary, extraordinary and exceptional in this sense be provided.
These are the positions expressed by Fratelli d’Italia and Lega, at the time of the pandemic:
In April 2020 Giorgia Meloni in the classroom asked to circumscribe the lockdown only to red areas; The generalized lockdown had asked for two weeks, ten days before the Conte government did it. But then a circumscribed lockdown was asked: “Basilicata cannot be treated like the territories that are most affected,” he had argued.
Salvini on Lockdown had had a more fluctuating position, alternatively asking for reopenings to safeguard the jobs and closures for health reasons even a few hours away between one declaration and another.
The role of vaccines in the pandemics
The new pandemic plan reiterates the usefulness of vaccines, but adding a generic phrase aimed not to make them the only tools to combat health emergencies:
The approved and tested vaccines are effective preventive measures, characterized by a significantly favorable risk-benefit ratio; The only tools for contrasting pathogenic agents but must be used together with the therapeutic benefits available cannot be considered.
The new pandemic plan applies two of the critical positions taken over the years by Giorgia Meloni on vaccines: the one on adverse effects and that of those who have chosen to not vaccine.
The awareness of people is absolutely central through a simple and effective communication of the benefits and risks Related. In no way, the information campaign will will have to use dramatic tones, generate discrimination and social stigma.
In March 2024, interviewed by Mario Giordano a Out of the choir On Rete 4, Premier Giorgia Meloni promised that the government would go all the way to understand the extent of the adverse effects of the vaccines against Covid on the population.
In June 2021, Meloni thundered against the Green pass: “We will never allow the National Green Pass to become a method to blackmail the citizens, denying them the freedom to travel, go to a concert or have dinner at the restaurant like everyone else. The idea of being forced to have a pass to participate in social life is chilling, literally incompatible with the standards of a free nation. We have always said it: this tool cannot and must not fall within the ‘normality’ of things. Start again yes, blackmail no. “
