Minimum wage, Tajani closes: it is not necessary, we are not in the USSR. Opposition filibustering

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The discussion of the oppositions’ proposal on the minimum wage continues in the Labor Commission in the Chamber. More than twenty members speak of the oppositions. According to what is learned, there would be a postponement of the vote on the amendments. The parliamentarians of Pd, M5s, Avs and Action are fighting for the suppressive amendment presented by the majority to be withdrawn. The discussion continued until 13.30. The Commission has been reconvened for tomorrow at 12.

But despite the appeals of the opposition (which has presented a joint law proposal) to the majority to retrace its steps, the latter is determined to oppose the initiative. And he tabled a suppressive amendment that if passed will kill the minimum wage.

Tajani: minimum wage is not needed, we are not in the USSR

Moreover, the statements of the exponents of the majority are eloquent. «In Italy there is no minimum wage. We need a rich salary, because we are not in the Soviet Union where everyone had the same salary» declared the Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani speaking at the Coldiretti Assembly.

Rizzetto (Fdi): lack of financial coverage

The chairman of the Labor Commission Walter Rizzetto, Fdi, on the sidelines of the discussion of the proposal on the minimum wage, in answering those who ask if the majority intends to withdraw the suppressive amendment, evoked the lack of financial coverage. “There are parts of this unified bill that objectively cannot convince. Quite simply, and I say this with a technical nuance, this is a proposal that has no financial backing. If and if we are not the ones to try to remedy it, it will be the Budget Commission which will give a negative input on the proposal. because in art. 7 there is no financial coverage»

The obstructionism of the oppositions

For its part, the Democratic Party is trying with obstructionism to slow down the work in the Labor commission of the Chamber on the minimum wage: “Take a space of freedom in Parliament, withdraw the suppressive amendment”, said the group leader dem Arturo Scotto in his speech on the proposal of the united oppositions which should be quashed in committee. After Scotto, all the dem deputies with those of the other oppositions signed up to speak: “The goal is to block them for the whole day,” say the members of the Democratic Party.