The Messina bridge will not be so narrow
The controversy over the derogation from the 250,000 euro ceiling on public salaries for the managers who will have to deal with the construction of the bridge over the Strait of Messina. Damato's Scratches
By dint of devising plans attributed to him by behind the scenes of every color to counter or at least contain the electoral numbers of a Giorgia Meloni who has just received the recognition of a "visibly and unexpectedly clever" from the even park and demanding life senator Mario Monti, the Northern League leader Matteo Salvini has shot himself in the foot. And he took a little pick, let's say, the project that is closest to his heart, on which he bet more, perhaps even more than the "differentiated autonomies" cultivated by his government and party colleague Roberto Calderoli: the bridge over the strait of Messina.
THE DEROGATION FROM THE PUBLIC SALARY CAP
In the cauldron of the last meeting of the Council of Ministers before the holidays also of the government, although shorter in duration and intensity than those of the Chambers, Salvini managed to insert – perhaps due to an oversight by the undersecretary at Palazzo Chigi Alfredo Mantovano – a derogation to the ceiling of 250 thousand euros of public salaries for the managers who will have to deal with the construction of the bridge, in fact. Which thus, already controversial in its own right, rightly or wrongly, in terms of its priority over other interventions, risks unpopularity precisely because of this story of salaries in a country which unfortunately lives on wages which are generally among the lowest in Europe, especially in vital sectors such as education.
Now the oppositions have another argument at their disposal to contest a bridge whose lack seems incongruous in a world where bridges of every dimension and futuristic nature are built – and, moreover, collapse less than in Italy. Stefano Rolli, one of those cartoonists who know how to precede the columnists, and surpass them in the ability to form opinions, opposed the news of the salaries intended in Salvini's resolutions for the managers who will take care of the construction of the link between Calabria and Sicily : “Then they say that wages are fixed”. And this in a newspaper like Il Secolo XIX of Genoa, that is, of a city that has seen bridges built and collapsed.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/smartcity/ponte-stretto-messina-deroga-tetto-stipendi/ on Sun, 06 Aug 2023 06:23:28 +0000.