MILAN (ITALPRESS) – “The mandatory” insurance policy against natural hazards “is an initiative not mine but of the government, voted by Parliament: it is a rule already included in the Budget Law 2024. And it concerns businesses, excluding farms. I proposed that this process cannot not affect individuals and families, gradually: no one has spoken of an obligation. It can be absolutely voluntary.” This was said by the Minister for Civil Protection, Nello Musumeci, interviewed on Weekend Agora on Rai 3. “If I decide to take out a policy, the state comes to my aid because it pays me the remaining part that the insurance company does not pay me. If I don’t want to secure my home, I’m very free not to take out insurance,” he explained. “We envision a public-private partnership with the companies, which in turn have to be cautious because their exposure is particularly high and so we need to find the right solution. Musumeci pointed out that “Giorgetti, together with Urso, are examining the implementing decree on the already existing law on companies. Once this aspect is overcome, we will move on to consider how to intervene in favor of private individuals: it is a matter of putting the properties of private individuals as collateral.” “The state pulls out between 3.5 and 6 billion every year, even to rebuild houses two meters from a riverbed,” he continued
“Political saber-rattling on my part? It’s a sustained and fueled political controversy two months out from regional vote. I would like to understand what I am accused of. They talked to me about prevention and I said that on this the Emilia-Romagna Region in 10 years has had from national governments about 600 million euros. How they have been spent we do not know, we would like to know and perhaps the citizens would like to know,” Musumeci pointed out. “I have heard about Commissioner Figliuolo in relation to the flooding of these days” in Emilia Romagna. But “he has absolutely nothing to do with it. He was appointed for the last flood. Figliuolo is a military man, he is neither of the right nor of the left. For Ischia we appointed Legnini, who is not center-right. So it is not a controversy related to political affiliation,” the minister later stressed.
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