The Minister of Transport and Northern League leader spoke on Radio 24 indicating what the party's main objectives are in the next maneuver
Pensions have always been one of the issues dear to the League, which does not intend to give them up even in a complex situation like the current one. Also on 27 October, a few days after his reconfirmation as leader of the party, the minister and vice-president of the Council Matteo Salvini spoke again about the party's objective in an interview with Radio 2, confirming that the launch of the maneuver in the Council of Ministers is scheduled for 28 October: "Exactly, we are working for this". The Northern League leader explained: "We are thinking because the economic situation is not easy, especially at an international level and with the cost of fuel, the cost of energy, the increase in inflation", but overcoming the Fornero law is the "priority" for the League.
"Restore three years of life to those who choose to retire at 64"
"We have finally arrived - added Salvini, explaining that his party intends to "give back three years of life to those who choose to retire at 64 compared to 67". The minister said he was "confident in being able to maintain a commitment that the League made several years ago and in the previous budget laws, due to other problems, we were unable to bring home". Salvini explained that "the Mef and the INPS are estimating the cost, there will certainly be the necessary coverage to allow those who have paid contributions to get at least their contributions back".
"Sixty-seven years currently puts us in the last places in Europe in terms of seniority of pensionable right - added Salvini -. And instead with the law that we have proposed, and of what importance, it will arrive tomorrow in the Council of Ministers, Italy will return to a country that is more respectful of its workers, leaving those jobs free for young people". And again: "People retire by recovering what they have paid, so it is not a cost, it is not a gift, it is not a tribute, it is simply taking back what the workers have lent to the State over the years before the age of 67 which seems to me to be an age that is absolutely too high".
The other priorities of the League
The other priorities for the League, explained Salvini, are "to raise the ceiling for the simplified flat-rate taxation to 15% to 100,000 euros which already today helps more than 2 million in VAT registration" and then the issue of security, which Salvini does not link to the events of recent weeks but to "what Italians need", indicating the need for "a further investment in safety, in salaries, in social security, in provisions for extraordinary hiring of forces of the order". Salvini said he was happy that part of the coverage is guaranteed by "an important contribution from the banks, after months and months of debate on extra profits, micro profits". The minister claimed: "As it should be, it has always been my battle and a battle of the League, not punitive but objective, the banks will contribute an important sum, given the profits they are making with the commissions paid by the Italians".
Weapons to Ukraine: "We will mostly talk about it as a loyal ally"
Salvini also spoke about stopping the sending of weapons to Ukraine, an objective announced immediately after his confirmation as leader of the party: "It was a reflection that we made four years ago, then in a spirit of loyalty to the majority and to the government we have always contributed as is right to every type of humanitarian and economic support to Ukraine - he said -. We will bring to the tables of the majority, as a loyal ally as we have demonstrated in recent years, what many Italians, many entrepreneurs and many European countries are developing as a reflection". The deputy prime minister added: "We should talk about it, there is nothing obvious. I think it is useful to think like many other European countries, many associations, especially linked to the business world, are doing, because Italian companies and Italian citizens are paying for the sanctions for this war. Are these aids given to Ukraine leading to the end of the war after four and a half years or are they prolonging the suffering of that population and of those peoples? I think it is right to think about it without any bias." On the subject, he assures, it doesn't appear to him that Giorgia Meloni was angry at his utterances: "We read a lot of bizarre things in the newspapers", he commented.
