«Commissariation is a strong and unmotivated institutional snub»- Corriere.it

More than in shock he defines himself as surprised. There is to understand. On Thursday morning he spoke with Labor Minister Marina Calderone about the new employability platform just launched by the government in the Labor decree of May 1st. Thursday evening he discovered that he had been commissioned by the same government, he and his whole team, together for 4 years.

An incomprehensible thing says the next day Pasquale Tridico, president of the INPS commissioner still in office for less than 10 days, instead of until April 2024: The change in governance with a decree law that requires necessity and urgency, is a very serious fact. Changing the top management of the institute at the normal deadline, but this commissioning is a strong institutional snub towards the entire INPS. He who helped devise the basic income and the Dignit decree, just canceled by the government, and considered close to the Five Stars, he doesn’t believe in the purge: I don’t have a party card, I’m not a party president but the president of the INPS which manages the country’s welfare and defended him and this is not Pasquale’s commissioner Tridico but of a whole team, from the vice president, to the general manager to the board of directors of the CIV (address and supervision council, ed), very cohesive and that worked well. He then recalls that law 88 of 1989 establishes the autonomy of the INPS and does not allow the spoils system. And he hopes that the commissioner does not become a precedent but remains an isolated fact, even if the institutes commissioned by the government, with Inail, are two.

Ask for explanations? He replies that he is at the service of the country and yet continues to consider it an unmotivated decision, because it clashes with the results of the last 4 years, because the merit of these years of hard work in which we have ferried the country through the pandemic and brought the ‘Inps at unique levels of innovation and digitisation.

Sixty million users in times of maximum emergency (usually 40); relaunch of the institution with 12,000 hires, 75% under 40; 20% increase in productivity; 75% of the Pnrr objectives achieved; investments in technology doubled with increasingly digital and personalized services, from the portal for families to the virtual consultant for retirees, up to 33 million pin transformed into Spid.

There were no conditions for a commissioner – says Tridico: we have improved services by shortening times, made INPS the welfare center of the country, this should be recognized. No one from the government has done it, but I have received many emails and messages of solidarity, even thanks from the employees. And he too thanks them all, from the youngest who have just been hired to the oldest who have been able to take up the challenge of recent years.

Now I will continue to deal with welfare by doing the most beautiful job in the world: free university professor. And he advised his successor to continue defending welfare; I want to repeat what Pope Francis told us when he received us on April 3 for the 125th anniversary of INPS: “Make a social difference”.