Budget gap yes or no?
How and why in the electoral campaign there is discussion of a budget gap. Paola Sacchi's note
Jagged electoral campaign with themes, including those of the program and those of the energy emergency, which overlap. Matteo Salvini points straight to immediate solutions for the emergency, for which he insists on the budget gap of 30 billion. He attacks the center-left: "I prefer to make good debt immediately to save 1 million jobs than bad debt then for layoffs and unemployment." Then, the leader of the League accuses: "I would not want the left since they know they are losing points to chaos, playing on the skin of the Italians, to leave us the rubble."
Salvini relaunches the request for the scrapping of tax bills and defines the idea of increasing fines in this situation as "insane". Without prejudice to the internal competition established by the same rules of the coalition, for which whoever gets the most votes will propose the premier, the differences between Salvini and Giorgia Meloni on the solutions to the energy emergency begin to reduce. The president of the Brothers of Italy, while remaining against it, affirms: "If it really has to be done, the budget variance will be made, but it is the last resort, because it would be further debt for the new generations". In the meantime, Meloni insists on the government's request for a decoupling of the price of gas from that of electricity. Silvio Berlusconi hits the button on an urgent decree and warns that "without Forza Italia there is no center-right government". The blue leader, presenting the electoral campaign in Sicily, with Renato Schifani, candidate for president of the center-right, underlines the role of FI also in foreign policy, the “Europeanist, Atlanticist, Christian, Atlanticist” pivot.
If the strategy of the center-right is clear enough, united by a common program of foreign policy, with its place in the EU, the Atlantic alliance, the defense of Ukraine in the lead, the reduction of the tax burden on security, the more frayed the picture appears. of the center-left and the "third pole". Licia Ronzulli, vice president of the Azzurri senators says: "On the one hand we are there, on the other various pieces of the left that act like the troublemakers of the center right".
In short, the real game seems to be played more within the center-right coalition than between sides. That of the Democratic Party appears to be a game in defense rather than attack, focused on its own programs. Enrico Letta asks, in turn, for the energy emergency a doubling of credit for businesses and "social" bills for the most disadvantaged groups, illustrates in his tour with the electric minibus the program points that focus on ecology, work, young people, reduction of the tax wedge.
But the Democratic Party, caught between the attacks of the pentastellato leader Giuseppe Conte and those of Carlo Calenda and Matteo Renzi, seems to be grappling with a continuous run-up on various fronts. And the “third pole” risks giving the image of an action more negative than positive. Renzi makes a joke in which he says: "Careful, Giorgia, I make governments fall every two years" and premises that he will not vote for "a Meloni government". FI coordinator Antonio Tajani attacks the "third pole": "You are irrelevant". Faced with the most disparate scenarios hypothesized in some newspapers, the president of FdI is clear: “Never rainbow majorities”. Next week the leaders in parliament for the Aid bis decree. While some serious episodes of violence crop up in this unprecedented electoral campaign: in Trento against Meloni the five-pointed star of the new Brs and last night in Marina di Carrara aggression against the Lega banquets. The president of FdI denounces the "lack of solidarity on the part of Letta". And Salvini will be in Carrara tomorrow against "squad aggression".
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/scostamento-di-bilancio-si-o-no/ on Sun, 11 Sep 2022 05:31:50 +0000.