it is a clash with the oppositions – Corriere.it

The majority try the blitz on the minimum wage. But it is foiled by shower of speeches of the oppositions who preside over the work through the leaders: We are on the right path, the center-right is afraid of the consensus it would gather in the country, they say, claiming, beyond the merits, the political strategy.

In the Employment Committee we had to discuss the amendment with which the majority wants repeal the proposal which fixes the minimum hourly wage at 9 euros, presented by the minority forces. A way to suppress the initiative at birth. In the morning, also the leader of Forza Italia and deputy prime minister, Antonio Tajani closes the question with clear words: No to minimum wage
, Italy not the USSR. Pd, M5S, Action and the Left, however, are obstructing: raining interventions to delay the vote. The works are updated to date but, in the evening, the commission is reconvened ad horas: an attempt to catch opponents by surprise. The opposition flocks again to defend the anti-exploitation measure. There is also the secretary pd Elly Schlein who responds to Tajani: Under 9 euros per hour exploitation. The minimum wage is a European measure. Other than the USSR. The centre-right maneuver fails. The vote remains set for today, with centre-left leaders, from Conte to Fratoianni to Richetti, announcing their presence in the commission.

Instead, the discussion on taxes causes internal fibrillation within the majority. It wasn’t a bizarre exit (the copyright of the 5 Star senators) that of Matthew Salvini, which it doesn’t actually do no reverse
: We will go to the end on fiscal peace. We have to help those who can’t pay. We need a fair and friendly taxman, as we wrote in the coalition electoral programme. On the merits, the frictions would not be so much between Carroccio and the premier. Indeed, people close to the same Salvini and Giorgia Melonideclassify sorties a positions in view of the European elections and speak of a phase of relaxed relations between the two.

It would rather be to irritate Salvini the attitude of Forza Italia who with Minister Zangrillo, first, and with Tajani, then, distanced himself from his words: Perhaps more can be done in the tax delegation, but we are against amnesties, the words of the deputy prime minister. Positions that surprised some exponents of Forza Italia itself. The counterpoint of Alexander Cattaneo. You don’t change your mind just because now Salvini is relaunching the proposal: scrapping the folders in our program, the former Ronzulliano group leader, purged a few months ago, reminds the secretary. And he does it, he says, in the name of what Forza Italia has always been: ours is the proposal for fiscal peace – he claims – you pay your debts, I’ll give you a discount. Let’s not call it forgiveness. But the drawer must be cleaned of thousands of non-collectable folders. and then there the issue of municipal fines. All governments have taken action in this sense. However, reports the Revenue Agency, the first three procedures of scrapping tested between 2016 and 2018, made it possible to reduce uncollected by 30.4 billion, less than 3%.

The tax bill it should arrive in the Chamber, in the Senate, at the beginning of August. The oppositions are calling for more time: Salvini is now the minister of the economy. We want the Director of Revenue in a hearing, Ernesto Ruffini, warns the Democratic Party Francesco Boccia. That same Ruffini who had replied to the Northern League leader’s words on the relationship between Italians and the tax authorities: Countering evasion, don’t persecute.

The issue of justice reform also remains on the table. Yesterday the voice of Joseph Busia, president of the Anti-corruption. a mistake to abolish it.

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