“There are three types of amendments among the amendments that the rapporteurs submit to the budget. The rapporteurs’ amendments from the government, the rapporteurs’ amendments and the filibuster’s amendments.” These are the words of Stefano Patuanelli, leader of the 5 Star Movement group in the Senate, on the sidelines of the Palazzo Madama Budget Commission’s work.
“I was going to start from the fact that the Prime Minister very irregularly said that the majority would not present changes to the budget law,” the former Minister of Economic Development explains to Today.it. “We later discovered, through rapporteurs who are the only people who can propose amendments at any time, that amendments do exist and in some cases are localized through micro-sectoral measures, a practice that is also prohibited by the rules governing the approval of the budget. Many of the amendments we have proposed are in full force.” Consider that it has been made unacceptable for this reason. It seems that the rapporteurs have accelerated the work…”.
Are they what you call “scammers”?
“These are small loans that respond to the needs of individual majority MPs, those who could not present their amendments and managed to present them to the speakers: we are talking about measures towards an institute that was never built in Taranto, a kindergarten in Montereale Valcellina, and the former centre-right mayoral candidate of Rome, Enrico “Loan from Michetti to Fondazione Gazzetta Aministrativa della Repubblica Italiana; changes worth 100 thousand euros that should not have been included in the budget law”.
Let’s just say this isn’t the first time this unusual event has happened, and it probably won’t be the last.
“The problem is that we find them with weak, poorly implemented and cost-saving measures. Every day Giorgia Meloni boasts about the rating agencies approving the government’s behavior: that the citizens are a little more dissatisfied, they have difficulty getting into the third week of the month, in this budget law high prices, high mortgages, there is nothing for high rents, they continue to show off with tax cuts but I remember the January salary will increase. It will be exactly like in December, so there is no real support for families. This maneuver is also a fatal blow to the Italian production system because there is absolutely nothing for businesses no.”
What do you think about the realignment of funds for the bridge over the Bosphorus?
“I remember Matteo Salvini saying that he would ask Europe for money to build the bridge. He obviously did not understand that the Development and Cohesion Fund was of European origin, but this is not the money that Europe gave for this work.
These are essential resources for regions, especially those in the south, that need to fill gaps. “It is madness to consider using these resources to build the bridge, and the centre-right governors of Sicily and Calabria were the first to realize this and oppose it.”
Clear. Approval of the infamous ESM is also at stake for Europe. How will it end?
“We witnessed a surreal sight on this issue. By the way, if we have to go to the Parliament for approval, which we will have to do sooner or later, it means that no one did it overnight. The Prime Minister faxed. Signing the amendments to the ESM He forgot to mention that the authority was given to the government by Conte, saying that the authority was given after the resignation of Giuseppe Conte, but that this letter was dated January 20, when Conte had not yet resigned. A parliamentary decision dated December 2020. With this gesture, Giorgia Meloni showed a terrible lack of communication and denied his own lies. revealed.”
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