Criticism of the PD leader also from the leader of the 5 Star Movement Conte: «After having already made Fornero worse, the government had to take back some of the shameful rules with which it killed the redemption of the degree»
After the cancellation of the pension package last night, the about-turn on condominiums and the tensions that emerged within the majority, the opposition goes on the attack. And the fibrillations in the majority require the convening of a majority summit between Prime Minister Meloni and the two deputies Tajani and Salvini. The meeting began just before 8pm at Palazzo Chigi and lasted just over an hour. Economy Minister Giorgetti also attended the meeting. On the table, from what we learn, there would be the possibility of presenting a new maxi amendment with measures in favor of businesses.
The first text on the matter also contained, to cover, restrictions on pensions. The League had announced that it would not vote on the text if these latest regulations had not been withdrawn. The minister for relations with parliament Luca Ciriani confirmed that the new amendment «is being written, we will file it tonight. There will be other coverages, no longer those on the redemption of the degree and the moving windows.” In practice, pensions will not be affected.
The rewriting of this passage would lead to the postponement of the maneuver in the Senate: the hypothesis is that it will be necessary to extend the work into the night of the 23rd and perhaps also into the morning of the 24th December.
In the afternoon Elly Schlein had attacked the government precisely on the indecisions regarding the maneuver. “Atreju is over but the real country is still there and they should take care of it and what has happened in recent days is unacceptable: only two days ago Meloni was bold in the Chamber against the opposition, last night his majority broke”, he says the secretary of the Democratic Party in a conference in the Senate. «On pensions – he adds – the highest betrayal of Meloni’s electoral promises takes place. They take us within a few hours of the exercises
The increase in the retirement age
«The increase in the retirement age does not fall with the withdrawal of the amendment» of «Giorgetti disheartened» because with the step foreseen in the text of the Budget law «it increases for 96% of workers including the police, this does not fall with the maxi-retirement», underlines the PD leader in a press conference in the Senate, on the sidelines of the work of the maneuver. «We ask the majority to vote on our blocking amendment. As well as the rest of the package developed with the opposition”, he adds.
Misiani: «Majority in football»
«What happened last night is a political event of great importance. The Minister Giorgetti he was blatantly delegitimized by his own party, victim of the frantic attempt to Salvini to save face by ignoring the pension restrictions contained in the government amendment he approved a few hours earlier. The result of this short circuit is there for all to see: a majority in the ball and a League torn apart by an internal showdown with its own Minister of the Economy”, attacks Antonio Misiani, head of the Democratic Party’s Economy. “The majority parties, and in particular the League, have cynically played a power game on the skin of Italian workers, used as a bargaining chip in the internal wars of the centre-right”, he adds.
M5S: «The only thing that is proceeding quickly is the arms race»
Criticism also from the 5 Star Movement. «After having already made the “Fornero” worse by raising the retirement age and canceling the “Women’s Option”, the government has had to take back, for now, some of the shameful rules with which it effectively killed the redemption of the degree for pension purposes and also extended the time to receive the check. Yet another circus of an evanescent, impalpable maneuver.” M5S leader Giuseppe Conte wrote on Facebook. «They presented a maneuver without an industrial plan, without a health plan, without a social project. Nothing at all. And now they are in pieces, they argue among themselves and even within the individual parties.” According to Conte «the only thing that is proceeding quickly is the arms race. They are inserting amendment after amendment to speed up military production.”
