The measure was approved by the Chamber with 204 votes in favor and 110 against. It now goes to the Senate.
The arrival of the maneuver at the last mile does not calm the tensions in the majority. The OK to Montecitorio's confidence passes with 211 yes and 117 no just a few hours after the final green light. The text will then go to the Senate for final approval on December 28th. But there remain fibrillations and discontent in the center-right which materialize in the vote on the agenda for the measure in the Chamber.
With Forza Italia and the League once again dividing over a proposed change to the Democratic Party who asks to move forward on anti-vax fines. A theme dear to Matteo Salvini's party which managed to include in the milleproroghe a rule which instead 'saves' those who did not comply with the Covid vaccination obligations in 2022. On the Dem agenda, which instead asks to proceed with sanctions, seven FI parliamentarians distance themselves and vote in favor despite the government's contrary opinion. A signal. It is a premise, perhaps, of what could happen when the Milleproroghe arrives, probably in the Senate, and the Azzurri have already announced that they will make themselves heard.
But it is not the only topic of conflict between allies. There is, for example, also the Northern League proposal first signed by Ingrid Bisa against the so-called 'anti-Renzi' measure included in the budget.
The League's agenda brands the rule as “excessively rigid” and the bearer of “unjustified limitations” for those who have regular jobs abroad. A few hours and the agenda is withdrawn. But even in this case, another signal remains. In short, the green light for the budget law still leaves consequences. And the tensions consumed during the long nights in the commission do not seem to be completely quelled.
In any case, the center-right claims the measures brought home on the family front but also and above all on taxation starting from the cut in the tax wedge and the Irpef to three structural rates. But it is precisely on the tax front that a new battle is already being announced with FI which – given the insufficient collections from the agreement – has for now had to renounce the further cut from 35 to 33% of the second bracket with an expansion of the range of how many can benefit from it. When parliamentary work resumes after the Christmas break, the League has already made it known that it will insist on the quater scrapping. In short, there is no shortage of topics for comparison.
The opposition, meanwhile, goes on the attack. This, says M5s leader Giuseppe Conte, is “a repressive maneuver for the economy” with which “you slam the door in the faces of people in difficulty in an ignoble way”. A budget law that “accelerates the country's economic decline” for the CGIL with Christian Ferrari. “It doesn't solve the country's real problems”, underlines Avs leader Nicola Fratoianni. “Less public spending and more taxes for everyone”, summarizes the Dem parliamentarian Ubaldo Pagano, group leader of the Democratic Party in the Budget Committee of the Chamber.
But the controversy of the day between the majority and the opposition is also that for the return of the so-called 'tip law': a series of micro-interventions across the territory by the centre-right. Funds for parish theatres, for the resurfacing of pavements and road surfaces in small municipalities but also for festivals or gyms. The interventions are “too many”, admits with gritted teeth some members of the majority, too. “You even financed a Municipality with an exist!”, shouts the Dem Federico Fornaro towards the majority benches. “We have 150 thousand euros to the Municipality of Nocera Umbra for synthetic football – accuses the five-star Valentina D'Orso in the Chamber – and the mayor is sitting there, because he is also a member of parliament. We have agendas with the tax code!”.
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