«The centre-right has reinstated them for the Senate»- Corriere.it

Restoration of annuities for senators eliminated in 2018. This is the message launched on Facebook by Giuseppe Conte, leader of the M5S. «A privilege that the 5 Star Movement had cancelled», were the words, «just on the last useful day, the centre-right perfected this coup, wrapping a gift for those who already enjoy advantages and preferential treatments, forgetting citizens and businesses who sacrifice themselves every day to make ends meet. Here’s what’s under the mask of patriots: nothing for citizens, only favors for friends of the Palazzo». Palazzo Madama has therefore provided them for those who have held less than one legislature, that is to say for 851 former senators and 444 family members of deceased senators, with amounts that are once again linked to salaries rather than contributions paid. The former prime minister, in contrast with the issue of annuities which has come back into vogue, then resumed that of the government’s lack of intervention in favor of low incomes. «Measures against the cost of living, the increase in mortgages and rents? Not at all », he wrote, « Giorgia Meloni’s patriots evidently have other priorities: precisely the restoration of privileges for parliamentarians. The Senate Guarantee Council – made up of four out of five members of the center-right and unfortunately without any representative of the 5 Stars – has quietly restored the annuities for the senators of the past legislatures”.

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