Pnrr but not only. Against the full powers of accounting magistrates

Form is important, but substance even more so. The decision of the government majority to present an amendment to the Public Administration decree with a written article to extend the “tax shield” by one year which limits the accounting liability of public administrators and employees to cases of willful misconduct and gross negligence and a written article to deprive the Court of Auditors of supervision of the Pnrr, abolishing the so-called “concomitant control” of the accounting judges on the use of the funds of the Plan, deserves to be considered for what it is: a first healthy breath of fresh air to try to put the Pnrr sheltered from a slow, ungovernable, elusive bureaucratic system, incapable of reforming itself in good time so as not to waste the opportunity to spend the 190 billion of the Pnrr. The amendment presented by the majority was described by the opposition, and by the newspapers of the Gedi group, as the clear indication of an explicit willingness of the government to carry on an “authoritarian” management of Italy. But if we accept for a moment to remove the permanent April 25 approach adopted by Meloni’s opponents to comment on every government action, it will be easy to understand that protecting the Pnrr from the so-called “concurrent control” of the Court of Auditors is the first act carried out by the majority on the management of the Pnrr which deserves to be strongly encouraged. Deciding to intervene on the Court of Auditors is not a retaliation against the Courtwhich days ago criticized the government for having grounded a financial implementation level on the Pnrr of six per cent, but it could finally be a concrete way to prevent the Pnrr from remaining hostage to an accounting bureaucracy dramatically specialized in flooding outside place. Sabino Cassesejurist, former minister, emeritus member of the Constitutional Court, a few days ago, speaking on Radio 1 as guest of Giorgio Zanchini, offered a very effective overview of the subject. The question is technical, of course, but it is also political, economic and cultural. The presence of a Court of Auditors responsible for carrying out a “concomitant” control, says Cassese, is a circumstance that is in open contradiction with what our Constitution claims in article 100.