The missed opportunity of Meloni’s maneuver
If not completely lost, the opportunity for the financial maneuver for the Meloni government has been largely wasted, except for the part paradoxically in continuity with the previous government of Mario Draghi. Here because. Damato's Scratches
DOOR TO DOOR MELONS
Net, very net of the satisfaction expressed by Giorgia Meloni in the television lounge of Porta a Porta , where she also said she was afraid of practically nothing, thus earning the generous title of Libero , one objectively wonders whether if it were the case, especially for a government of much vaunted turnaround, to pay such a high price for the slightly too conformist need – let's face it – to avoid recourse to the so-called provisional budget exercise. Which is also contemplated by article 81 of the Constitution "for periods not exceeding a total of four months". But it would not have been a good signal to the markets, it has been said and written, indeed repeated, because it is not the first time that a budget law, or financial manoeuvre, to say the least lame and botched, has been preferred to the provisional exercise .
THE NEWSPAPER HEADLINES ON THE MELONI MANEUVER
The one being approved in the Chamber with the usual vote of confidence, and ratified in the Senate almost among the New Year's barrels, will not be the "maneuver to be rewritten" shot on the front page of Repubblica , because there will be nothing to be rewritten after the approval now hinged on recourse to trust. And after the many, too many corrections made until the very last moment, in a painful coming and going between the Budget Commission and the hearing room in Montecitorio. But it remains a maneuver that is not at all exciting, with those 12 tax amnesties surreptitiously counted by the Sole-24 Ore, the 44 holes patched up in extremis by the State General Accounting Office and denounced in the opening headline of La Stampa , and with that April Fool's out of season that transformed the budget law into the green light for wild boar hunting in the city, with all the ironies that rightly submerged it.
WHO CRITICIZES AND WHO PRAISES THE MANEUVER OF THE MELONI GOVERNMENT
If it was technically wrong in announcing "a maneuver – I repeat – to be rewritten", the Republic of paper was nevertheless not wrong in reminding the Prime Minister that "grit is not enough to govern" by pronouncing high-sounding words in the square and in television studios. Nor is it enough, contrary to what Maurizio Belpietro believed in his Truth , to write that "the 5S income cut is worth the whole maneuver: the one introduced in 2018 by the first government of Giuseppe Conte even to defeat poverty in Italy, like the then deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio announced at night from the balcony of Palazzo Chigi.
THE DOUBTS
Nor does the flood of declarations by this or that exponent of the center-right majority, or right-center, as you prefer, to boast of the flags planted in the financial maneuver by the parties to which they belong, as happened in the time of Romano Prodi for the governments of the Olive Tree or of the Union, before both crashed in Parliament.
THE COMPARISON
Meloni's had to be – by the very fact of being presided over by a leader who grew up inside and outside her coalition by opposing all the executives who have succeeded in the last two legislatures, if I remember correctly – a revolutionary government in its own way in terms of style and content of political action. If not completely lost, the opportunity for the financial maneuver was largely wasted, except for the part paradoxically in continuity – so they say – with the previous government of Mario Draghi . Who continues to be, from his good retreat in Umbria, or from the travels he makes in extreme confidentiality abroad, the stone guest of Italian politics, in my opinion worthy of the appointment as senator for life at the first opportunity that should present itself to the president of the Republic Sergio Mattarella, even at the cost of making the one who considers himself the virtual leader of the left-wing opposition go mad with anger: Giuseppe Conte.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/loccasione-mancata-della-manovra-di-meloni/ on Fri, 23 Dec 2022 06:41:13 +0000.