The tax for the summer appeared in an amendment of the speakers, therefore of the majority of government, to the Infrastructure law decree: an increase in motorway tolls from one euro every thousand kilometers, starting from August 1st. Oppositions have not lost time: “The government makes cash on the holidays”. The center -right has fibrillated, with Fdi who tried to get away, making sure that he has agreed to unwittingly in a proposal that started by the Leagueowner of the infrastructures with the minister Matteo Salvini.
The question closed after a few hours, with a reverse: Salvini asked to withdraw the amendment. The increase seems to have faded. That euro more every thousand kilometers would have brought 90 million per year to the speakers, necessary “to definitively cover – is explained in the report – the needs of resources which in recent years is structurally” grown, among other things, also because of the increase in the bills for the lighting of the roads.
The input of the amendment would have arrived from the Ministry of Infrastructure led by Salvini, it is explained in the majority environments. The rule would have had a gestation that is not at all simple, especially for the doubts made by Fdi to the League. In the end, in order not to break the balance of the coalition, the Melonians also gave their green light, although with some stomach ache. The rule, therefore, was presented with the signatures of exponents of the whole coalition. With the passing of the hours, however, the climate has become increasingly on. Tensions, taken away, attacks of oppositions, controversy of user associations. Fdi filtered his disappointment.
“These increase taxes – the president of IV, Matteo Renzi, ironized on social media – and then pretend to be sad for the increase in taxes. What embarrassment “. Until Salvini has not closed the question “in the light of the distinctions that emerged in the majority”, the Ministry said. The rethinking was communicated with a short but clear note in two steps.
The first who immediately reached the point: “Deputy Prime Minister and Minister Matteo Salvini asks to withdraw the amendment”. And the second that made a political passage clear, remembering that that requested on tolls was presented by the speakers “of all the majority forces”. As if to underline: not only of the League, which then withdrawn the signature by announcing that it will not vote for the increase. “Once you have scamato – commented the secretary of most Europe, Riccardo Magi – Salvini is the hero. Would you also like the applause? Salvini must have taken the Italians for fools ». While the secretary of the Democratic Party, Elly Schleinhe does not trust: “Giorgia Meloni and Matteo Salvini have changed so many times in recent years that we certainly cannot trust a press release – he said – we will not give up the grip until the amendment is officially withdrawn and the new tax on the holidays of the Italians, who had designed to the government, definitively canceled”. The pre-Augustan slide was caught by the M5S.
«We add another little caravan for the holidays (to those who can afford them) – the president wrote on social networks Giuseppe Conte -. For the taxes, they are cutting them: to the billionaire giants of the web of the United States and to the banks that have collected extraprofitable. We are immediately battleing in Parliament ». And Angelo Bonelli, by Avs: “Citizens cannot always be the ATM of a government that has no vision and acts only for slogans and propaganda”. Consumer associations also made themselves felt. “Any increase in the motorway tolls is unacceptable – wrote Assoutenti – and would represent damage for millions of motorists”. And the National Consumer Union: “It is incredible the will of this government to make cash by launching the stone and hiding the hand”.