Matteo Salvini has taken the side of the NO Gronda Committee, which coordinates the protest of those who take sides against the realization of the new motorway section that would cross the territory Genoese? The man, as a politician but also as a minister, is not new to take categorical positions that is ready to disregard. And even without paying attention to specify that one's own thought, but even more so their own words, were misrepresented. So what about his statement on Friday, this time in the role of Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, according to which the project is dated?

Dated, one might observe, like any project that passes to implementation phase, in the sense that neither in Italy nor in nowhere else in the world does work start a day later the approval of the project. The definitive one of the Gronda is was delivered to the Ministry in 2016 which approved it the year following. As dated - according to the parameters of the Gronda - it would be also the project for the construction of the bridge over the Strait of Messina, Salvini's current workhorse but So far, you have not mentioned this issue.

Why did Salvini say what he said? Will was the informal atmosphere, given that Salvini has the sentence pronounced in Arenzano at the provincial festival of Genoa of the League Liguria - Salvini Premier? It may have been that, as is well known, The boss may not care to justify his statements to the His people?

Usually, in fact, it is party or movement colleagues or The allies most affected by the affirmation to have to take on the task of interpreting the words. He tried the President of the Liguria Region, Giovanni Toti, an ally of the League as leader of Italia al Centro, one of the parties ad personam arose in the hypothesis of a collapse of Strength Italy before or after the death of founder Silvio Berlusconi, sadly commemorated by Toti with the projection of the face of the Knight on the façade of the headquarters of the regional authority.

Toti, like others who have queued to him to decrypt A decidedly disconcerting statement for those who fought for the realization of a project supported on several occasions by Salvini himself, he appealed to the preventive reassurance of the minister on the project: the Gronda - put the hands forward Salvini at the party - it is a priority.

Beyond this foothold, the wall has no other roughness to cling to. The project is dated. Who Means? That a variation of the path is required, that Do we need new permissions? Steps that, in the most hypothetical far-fetched, take months, in the most plausible one, years.

Salvini's deputy has put a patch on it: "The construction sites - summarized the deputy minister on social media Edoardo Rixi summarizing his speech at the public assembly of Ance Genoa entitled "Genoa future destination" - They must talk to each other to avoid collapse from the point of view Roads. We are updating the Gronda project Doing for months. We want new infrastructures to be digital and smart». Explanations that do not serve to unravel the hank.

The Genoese mayor Marco Bucci, notoriously so good To cut the Gordian knot, he is silent. Maybe he's on vacation.

All allegations remain valid. Starting with that, and There are many who have made it their own, according to which it is not at the it is possible to allocate economic resources to the Gronda and from the one according to which from the meeting of recent days with Autostrade for Italy (Aspi), the company in charge of the implementation of the project and the expropriations necessary to implement it, The Minister may have learned that the more than four billion euros of investments to be paid by the concessionaire Aspi for the construction of the Gronda, provided for by the protocol signed in end of 2022 by the Ministry, Aspi and local institutions, not They are enough more.

Others, perhaps influenced by the sea breeze of Arenzano, they took it for a seaside statement, of those of Salvini of Papeete.

Two years ago Salvini warned the Democratic Party and the 5Stars, then in power, to wake up and start without delay the construction of the Gronda. Now it seems that at least a few more hours of sleep can bring benefit. It is not known to whom. Nor why. Maybe it's just a dream.

Bruno Bellio