The President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella It is getting used to us, especially in the last two years, coinciding with the Meloni government, to very close and very generous interventions from a political content point of view. Yesterday, visiting the BSP Pharmaceuticals company in Latina, on the occasion of the celebration of the Labor Day, he spoke, first of all, of equity for the wages of migrants and to combat the scandalous phenomenon of the corporal; He spoke of families who struggle because of the cost of insufficient life and wages; He also spoke of the duties that can hinder the right to care and health.
These are, of course, very obviously, of real problems we have in Italy, especially the corporal and low salaries, from a twenty-five-three year old. We also had the issue of duties in other contexts, but it is more an international problem. The first two, vice versa, are problems of a much more national character and that have been concerning us, as mentioned, for decades.
On the issue of low wages – in the last twenty years Italy is the only European country in which they have decreased and not increased – the causes are well -known and do not concern, in particular, this government that, in truth, the little money available that has been found (also due to the burden of debts left by the building bonuses) has directed them precisely towards a decrease in the tax wedge to get a hundred euros in the population bands with lower income. But this, for the president Roweither it does not count or is not worthy of attention. Of course, it is not up to him to praise the government but, in the presence of an action of the government vaun, albeit to a minimal extent, to increase wages, the coincidence wants – for charity without any malice – that you speak of it right now.
We said the causes are known. The first reminded us of Draghi, a few months ago, intervening at the annual symposium of the Center for Economic Policy Research in Paris, supporting, in a decisive way, that keeping wages low and focusing on exports is no longer sustainable and that if Europe decides to issue common debt could create further tax space to increase wages and have a growth that is now lower than it could be.
What does all this mean? It means that if a country, strongly indebted like Italy, especially during the decades of the last century that the president Row He knows well, having been deputy from 1983 to 2008, belonging to the “social left” of Christian democracy, he wants to lower taxes decisively, as it would be necessary to increase workers’ income and increase internal consumption, therefore the production, therefore employment, cannot do it because Europe prevents you from making further debt for this purpose.
The president is right Row To strengthen this problem strongly but would have been, in our very modest, very humble, poor and discharged opinion (almost petty), perhaps more appropriate to contact the need for the union, as suggested, vice versa, with a high, high and noble opinion of Mario Draghichanged its economic policies and allowed maneuvers, even in deficit, to lower the cost of labor. In other words, and referring to a post -war reformer, it would be necessary, Ezio Vanonicertainly well known to Professor Rowrisking a lowering of tax taxes (he did it in the post -war disastrous) in the certainty that this would cause an increase in tax revenue due to the increase in income, consumption and investments.
The Meloni government more than what he did could not do, unless he renounced investments in armaments but this, I think, indeed I am sure, would not have been viewed well from the Quirinale.
As for the corporal, I would like to remember that this government has reopened the migratory flows that are a tool to avoid illegal work, in black and underpaid. When, during the Renzi government, it was announced that hundreds of thousands of agriculture workers would be put in order, even against the corporal, and the measure failed the goal, we did not come from the hill.
Speaking of the duties, there are no those who do not see the diplomatic action of the premier Melons which is certainly playing a leading role in the various international disputes.
In short, we cannot fail to notice a change of language and quantity of the interventions (increasing), of the President himself who, by a language characterized by a very institutional rhetoric, an official and formal language, has moved on to a language characterized by a more “popular” rhetoric and “political” by intervening punctually and showing disagreement with some interventions of the government in office.
The most significant is the intervention on the occasion of the manifestations of the students in Pisa who, by violating the laws and regulations, were subjected to a repressive action of the police and, in that case -did not quote verbatim -, the president had to say that this was not the right educational method against those “poor” and naively innocent young people who had put on a chaos in front of which the police should have done if not to intervene?
For heaven’s sake, the president Row He always intervenes by referring to the Constitutional Charter, the founding values of the Republic and the fundamental rights present in the Constitution. It is its task as a representative of the country and the first office of the state, but it seems to us that all this has increased particularly after the advent of the Presidency of the Council of Giorgia Meloni.
As his party mate said Giulio Andreotti: “To think badly it becomes sin, but often we catch ourselves.” Probably, writing these lines, whoever wrote them will have to confess but, perhaps, has described something at least likely.
