MILAN (ITALPRESS) – “Mattarella? It is normal for one to add a beautiful adjective next to the President of the Republic. But I feel like I say it’s really wonderful. Was there always close? Yes, in fact, there was him from the first day, he always comforted us, he received us when there was also need, not only for institutional aspects, I must say also with great frankness, with great honesty”. This was stated by the President of the Fondazione Milano Cortina 2026 Giovanni Malagò in the margin of the 145th session of the Cio held in Milan. “You know very well that I am a lay person in this sense and in the last two and a half years the government’s contribution was really fundamental. I must be honest with great frankness.”.
“We have actually organized an Olympiad in the last, badly counted, two and a half years, with an impressive acceleration. That’s why I tell you, is everything ready? I am a super optimist, if you want I say yes, but I tell you that in my opinion everything will be ready at 20 of February 6 because if you leave here and go to one of the plants you will see people who are finishing up. The details, which are so many, make the difference,” Malagò continued.
“On the controversy regarding the presence of the ICE in Italy? I’m saying he responded very well to Coventry. The Ice for us is not there, in the sense that security is not our responsibility. We as an organization have nothing to do with them. Then if there is a special security system that always seems to me, it is adopted in the case of heads of state or personalities of eminent American prestige.”.
Concerning possible fears for protests: “The journey of the flame, according to the notion of the president of the OCG, but according to the CIO, of the president of the executive committee, of the athletic commission, of the session, was until now, two and a half days after the arrival of the flame in the two braziers, in Milan, was the greatest success ever. A crazy thing: Italy is the Italy of the municipalities, Italy of the villages, but Italy also of the great cities. Go and watch it happen everywhere. At first there were concerns, precisely, but until now there was never an Olympiad where protests and polemics were so low,” he concluded.
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