The examination in the commission hasn't even started yet, but the parties are already thinking about how to revolutionize the maneuver. Including, or perhaps starting from, the majority ones. The League, first of all, is pressing for changes, from schools to pensions. FI insists on the social security front even after the meeting with the CISL.
And from FdI, but not only, the hypothesis of a reopening of the terms of the building amnesty arises, in particular for Campania, excluded from the 2001-2003 one. The idea, which apparently emerged in some meetings in recent days on the budget law, is also being carried forward by the Campania majority coordinators and could become an amendment to the budget law in line with the one presented, at the instigation of Edmondo Cirielli, in the last maneuver and which was then not followed up. But it is not excluded that the amnesty could be even more extensive.
"Meloni winks at illegality", Angelo Bonelli of Avs immediately goes on the attack. The amnesty, underlines the Dem Marco Sarracino, is "a proposal already announced by the candidate Cirielli in the last electoral campaign and resoundingly rejected by the citizens of Campania. The government must not try to push back through the window what democracy let out the door. Instead, deal with the real problems of the people of Campania, starting from the serious emergency of the Flegrei camps".
"But enough, they don't even know what they approved", Giuseppe Conte goes on the attack, observing the continuous modification proposals launched by the majority and adding that "their personalized license plate is 'Go home!'".
Tensions are recorded, however, especially within the majority with the League pressing on the changes and the discontent that is now being whispered even among more than a few ministers. The Mef, for the moment, chooses not to comment. And on the other hand, the line, reiterated in all forums by the Minister of Economy Giancarlo Giorgetti, is clear: keeping accounts first and foremost.
With things like this, however, the maneuver risks turning into a very slippery slope for the majority to hold on. First of all, Matteo Salvini is trying to force it, sending an alert to his centre-right colleagues. "The allies - is the warning - must respect the priorities of the League, starting with pensions". An exit to which it is FdI who replies closely with the economic manager Marco Osnato: "The agreements to be respected - he closes clearly - are those written in the budget".
But Salvini's party is in fibrillation and a litmus test in this sense is also the ongoing tug of war over the choice of the rapporteur who will follow the maneuver for the League in the Budget Committee. Alberto Gusmeroli, the head of the party's Economy department who would be moved ad hoc by the Productive Activities commission, which he chairs, could in fact be preferred to the early Giorgettian Silvana Comaroli, who was also rapporteur two years ago. If the choice falls on him, he will join Angelo Rossi (FdI), Mauro D'Attis (FI) and Francesco Saverio Romano (Nm). The decision will be made tomorrow.
But in the meantime Gusmeroli immediately reiterated the Northern League line also on the banking front. "We are happy - he underlines - that Intesa Sanpaolo continues to generate record profits. If they continue to grow at these rates, an additional contribution to the country certainly shouldn't be a problem". Words that, certainly, will not have gone unnoticed by FI parties who immediately placed limits on the help of credit institutions in the maneuver. A contribution, that of the banks, to which that of Cdp should not be added. "The contribution of the Cassa - pointed out Giovanni Gorno Tempini, president of Cassa Depositi e Prestiti - is through the dividend, which goes almost entirely into the state coffers".
