I tell you what Tridico of the INPS did not say about bonuses to parliamentarians
Because the hearing of the INPS president, Tridico, did not convince me. Daniele Capezzone's comment for the newspaper La Verità
A panting and very out of breath Pasquale Tridico obsessively repeated, in connection with the Labor Commission of the Chamber, that the news of the 5 deputies and the 2 thousand local elected officials who would have requested the 600 euro bonus "did not come out either directly or indirectly from me" . And, as we will see, pressed on the phone call received by a vice president of the House, he is incredibly entrenched behind the formula "It's a personal matter", without the president Debora Serracchiani (Pd) making a turn.
In the reconstruction of the INPS President, Tridico would have been called on 7 August by the director of the Republic Maurizio Molinari, who would have informed him that he was in possession of the news regarding the deputies and had asked him for the names of the five. Tridico defined himself as "surprised" and declared that he had not revealed anything: "These are unfounded accusations, I refer them to the senders". And again: “The news was stolen, it did not come out from official INPS sources. I have already ordered an internal audit ”.
Subsequently, Tridico admitted that he had known the news from the end of May and that he had shared it (the news, not the names) only with the INPS board of directors (on 30 May). The President of the Institute also argued that the interlocking and control action would be justified by the fact that parliamentarians and regional councilors (and partly other local administrators) are subject to a differentiated social security system.
After that, Tridico's initial speech had frankly embarrassing passages: the theme of tax and social security evasion (which one doesn't see what it has to do with the bonus); a kind of motion of affection ("we served the country, we slept in the Institute's premises"); the incongruous reference to profiling made by private companies ("Google signals us products"). Not to mention the constant reminder, to justify itself, to the very high number of services provided by INPS during the Covid emergency, starting from the 4 million bonus (“let's look at the finger and not the moon!”, Repeated Tridico). Yet each month INPS pays out 20 million pensions, and therefore dealing with large numbers is the rule, not the exception.
There remain at least seven points that do not add up in the reconstruction of Tridico.
First. There is a problem of strict liability of INPS in keeping confidential data entrusted to the Institute. So Tridico cannot get away with just excluding its direct role in the leak. At best, there is a culpa in vigilando that falls on INPS and its top management. Nor does a surreal passage from Tridico's reply reassure him: “It is neither the first nor the last time that there are leaks from the Institute”.
Second: Tridico admitted that the checks concerned about 40 thousand recipients, and would have been motivated by the social security system of those citizens and by the opportunity to possibly recover what INPS had unduly paid them. The intersection would have taken place by drawing on data from the Ministry of the Interior and Parliament for politicians, and for other subjects from different archives. But on all this there is only the word of INPS. Who checks in detail?
Third. Tridico did not explain (nor did the parliamentarians ask him) why the reference to a “television host” came out in the media. Was there therefore a profiling carried out by a series of other public figures, apart from politicians?
Fourth. Why, immediately after the release of the first news, the grillini already evoked the alleged political groups to which the parliamentarians benefiting from the bonus belonged? Did they take a guess or had someone given them accurate information?
Fifth. How did the media reveal the names and surnames of the people involved? It is certainly not excluded that some drafts on this may have come from the INPS.
Sixth. The logical and chronological link between the leak and the campaign on the Grillino referendum weighs like a rock. It is this, useless to go around it, the political heart of the question.
Seventh. Despite the question of the deputy Rizzetto, Tridico did not answer the phone call from the honorable Rosato, vice president of the Chamber, who apparently wanted to be reassured that members of Italia Viva were not involved. Tridico spoke of a "personal matter". An adequate commission presidency would have flayed him alive, while Serracchiani was satisfied and closed there.
(Extract from an article published in the newspaper La Verità )
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia/vi-dico-che-cosa-non-ha-detto-tridico-dellinps-sui-bonus-ai-parlamentari/ on Sat, 15 Aug 2020 08:50:06 +0000.