The examination of the maneuver in the Budget Committee of the Chamber is wrapped up and the arrival in the Chamber so far scheduled for next Monday is therefore postponed. A further package of six amendments from the rapporteurs was tabled in the Budget Committee of the House. In addition to these there is the filing of another file of reformulations of parliamentary amendments. The two packages together effectively implement the rules set out in the government’s maxi-amendment which was circulated in draft form. Those of the speakers – it is explained – are divided by subject in a congruous manner. The deadline for sub-amendments to the new package of amendments is set for tomorrow evening at 8.30pm. The opposition goes on the attack, criticizing, among other things, the lack of clarity on the timing and contents of a provision that the government “is effectively rewriting”. And they ask for an intervention from the Minister of Economy in the commission.
Meanwhile, the controversy over the rapporteurs’ amendment which equates the compensation of non-parliamentary ministers to elected ones does not subside. An increase which, according to Il Sole24 Ore, will be 7,193 euros per month for 17 of the technical members of the Meloni government: 8 ministers plus 9 other deputy ministers and undersecretaries. A “maximum wage” for government members, the M5s leader goes on the attack in unison Giuseppe Conte and the Democratic secretary Elly Schlein. Which, according to what the deputy minister at the Mef, Maurizio Leo, drawing more than a few ironies from the opposition, underlines, concerns a “decision of the parliamentarians”. Even the Minister of Defense Guido Crosetto he underlines how the choice comes from the speakers of the maneuver and claims that in the government “for two years we have served the State with discipline and honour” “without asking ourselves what the economic treatment is”. In any case, while saying he agrees with the specific measure, he suggests that it applies “to those who come after us”.
«I believe – the minister also highlights Antonio Tajani – that it is right that a minister who is not a parliamentarian receives the same allowance as a colleague who is”. Meanwhile, time is getting longer on the discussion of the budget law, a complicated game – it is explained – also by the need to avoid a maxi-amendment which could have been inadmissible. And at the end of various stops and gos, only in the evening were the amendments announced for yesterday tabled. «The timetable we have given ourselves – explains the FdI rapporteur Ylenja Lucaselli – provides for the discussion of the amendments” in the commission “all Monday, including the night. The mandate to the rapporteur was set for Tuesday morning. The text will arrive in the Chamber on Wednesday and we should finish it by Friday morning.”
The opposition, in any case, goes on the attack, stigmatizing the failure to respect the agreements on time and the lack of presence of the technical reports that always accompany the government’s amendments. “Here we are bordering on a lack of institutional relations – said the PD group leader Chiara Braga – and if this continues, any word from the government from here on out could be considered unfounded and this will also change the attitude of the opposition”. And the M5s, AVS and all the oppositions are also going on the attack despite the reassurances of the Minister for Relations with Parliament Luca Ciriani and the speakers. However, several drafts of the changes were filtered during the day.
Many confirmations of rules are the result of the agreement reached in the last majority summit with the Prime Minister Giorgia Melonithe deputy prime ministers, the leader of We Moderates and the Minister of Economy Giancarlo Giorgetti. The IRES reward, which drops by 4 points for those who invest and hire with a contribution from the banks; the reduction of the tax on cryptocurrencies and the exclusion of start-ups from the web tax. But also the appliance bonus, wanted by the League as well as the family dowry fund for families with ISEE under 15 thousand euros for extra-curricular sports and recreational activities of children between 6 and 14 years old. And there is also a mini increase for the minimum pensions of the over 70s. However, the agreement will not bring resources to the maneuver – but “it was not a flop”, defends the deputy minister at the Mef Maurizio Leo. «We are still doing the math» but “the most interesting data is linked to the fact that a good portion of the taxpayers who have joined – listed low in the tax report – are nevertheless «subjects who have emerged in some way».