The self-assurance of Bettini, the slaps of Ainis and the solitude of Mattarella
What happens in the government between the State Budget, Renzian raids, Bettinian whispers and criticism from the guarantors
In spite of the confidence, at this point, of the great adviser, prompter, director of the Democratic Party Goffredo Bettini – now stable in Italy, having thinned out his stays in distant Thailand to stay closer to his comrades who are divided between suffering and hope in the alliance with the grillini which he strongly supported – the State Budget that the Chamber has just approved is by no means "a positive job" to be pleased about. They certainly cannot expect improvements from the Senate in the three days left to them to ratify it, naturally with the same short trust procedures adopted at Montecitorio.
THE LATEST SORTES OF BETTINI
Bettini must have read with annoyance and disbelief a professional constitutionalist, as well as a member of the Competition Authority, such as Michele Ainis. What of the Republic yesterday denounced the bullying also repeated this year by the government against the parliament, reducing the Senate to a substantial fiction, in spite of bicameralism saved by the reform of Matteo Renzi in 2016. The President of the Republic, for its part, while having the right recognized by the Constitution to keep a law on his desk for 30 days in order to evaluate it with awareness before its promulgation, or its referral to the Chambers, this year too he will have to pretend to study the papers well, and the accounts, because he has been denied time.
THE SPANISH PRAISE OF MATTARELLA
In order to avoid resorting to the so-called "provisional exercise", as required by the Constitution, as Ainis reminded him, who would prefer it to a budget now usually approved with yugulatory procedures, poor Sergio Mattarella – " alone in the storm ", titled on him the Spaniard El Pais – will sign in a hurry, to the maximum regretting the circumstances in which he happened to do it again. And the Constitutional Court will turn its head the other way, despite having warned the Chambers at the time to tackle such a deadline with more time and seriousness.
THE SBERLES OF AINIS
Yet, apart from Ainis, who at the beginning of his speech on the Republic, made only a mention of it, no one remembered that what is also called the "40 billion maneuver" was dismissed as "a jumble of measures without design" by Parliamentary Budget Office. There is – explained Ainis – "a bit of everything: from the taps bonus to the financing of a master's degree in thermal medicine", as such it is not even involved too much – I believe – in the viral emergency with which everything is sought in these times to justify or cover.
THE BRACKETS OF UPB
The Parliamentary Budget Office is not something private or esoteric, but a public and independent body for the surveillance of public finance, with about thirty employees, a president and two advisers appointed by the presidents of the chambers, choosing them from a dozen proposed names by the Budget Committees by a two-thirds majority, plus a board of auditors of three other people, plus a scientific committee of about twenty experts. Its formation dates back to 2014, in implementation of the 2012 constitutional law with which a tie was made mandatory.
The seat was assigned to him in the Parliamentary Palace of San Macuto, or the Seminary. Where, to be clear, also works the Security Committee of the Republic, which supervises the secret services. So much form, so to speak, would deserve as much substance and consideration: certainly not the indifference opposed to it by the government.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/la-sicumera-di-bettini-le-sberle-di-ainis-e-la-solitudine-di-mattarella/ on Mon, 28 Dec 2020 06:55:23 +0000.