Budget gap, the center-right votes with the government: ok almost unanimously. Conte: “Thanks to those who seek dialogue in the opposition”

First concrete act of collaboration between government and opposition on budget variance. After months of controversy and discussions, the appeal of the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella for political forces to dialogue in order to face the national emergency had its first results. There Camera has in fact approved the majority resolution with 552 yes: six abstentions and no votes against. Be, Fdi e League they decided to vote in favor together with the executive and now the debate moves to the Senate. “It is an excellent sign in this moment of particular difficulty that the country is going through”, declared the premier shortly after Giuseppe Conte. “The way of dialogue and a constructive approach prevails among the opposition forces and for this I thank, in particular, all those who wanted to pursue it from the beginning, with determination but always with clarity of roles. I hope that this climate of confrontation and dialogue can also accompany the next, delicate steps that we will have to face for get out of this emergency period“. On the newly found agreement, also the President of the Chamber Roberto Fico he decided to speak: “This broad consensus is a precious sign of unity in the phase we are experiencing. And it is an important gesture of institutional responsibility, which is good for the country ”.

The first to formalize the agreement in the morning was the former Knight Silvio Berlusconi, in line with the speeches made in recent days in the name of “institutional responsibility“. And in fact, the authorship of the new axis is registered. Speaking by telephone with the blue deputies in the morning he declared: “We will vote in favor because the government has accepted all our requests”. And he also said he hoped that “do the same for all the center-right“. Matteo Salvini e Giorgia Meloni who in the morning had complained about delays in responses from the government, then lined up and rushed to claim the result. “A great success”, said Salvini, “the government has understood that it is not going anywhere by itself, it has been forced to listen not to the united center-right, but to the country. If it goes on, let’s see. This is just the beginning, I am thinking of a table on the school, from tomorrow with Conte and Azzolina. We are there “. Soon after, she joined Meloni: “The government agrees with us, albeit belatedly,” Meloni said. “I am happy that the majority arrive on our common sense proposals, the battle does not end. With this vote we show that the absence of dialogue was the responsibility of the government, last time the government was not available and therefore we abstained, this vote shows that we are willing to help Italy. Yesterday it took us 20 minutes to make a common document, the resolution presented a second earlier, we are united, no single party would have brought these results ”.

The Pd leader is also satisfied Nicola Zingaretti: “Italy uniting on what to do in this dramatic emergency is good news. We fought for this now achieved goal. Now let’s defeat Covid: let’s give people back trust and hope “. The minister Dario Franceschini leaving Parliament he commented: “A choice of responsibility by Berlusconi that has politically forced the other center-right forces to change lines and adapt. Chapeau “. While the Minister of Economy Roberto Gualtieri he reiterated: “It seems positive to me that the broadest convergence is achieved even with those opposition forces that intend to support this deviation and therefore this broad postponement of tax deadlines”. For the parent company dem Andrea Marcucci it was a “miracle of the Cav”: “’I point it out as a positive fact, a sort of’ miracle, given the level of interlocutors we have had so far. The opposition, thanks to the push of Berlusconi, voted yes in the Chamber, and will vote yes in the Senate, to the budget gap. 8 billion more for companies in difficulty. Let’s start again from here ”.

For the 5 stars, the Foreign Minister spoke Luigi Di Maio: “A great sign of unity and institutional loyalty towards the country”, he commented. “Several times this government has reiterated the need for institutional collaboration, also requested by President Mattarella, to give a concrete answer to the Italians in a really difficult moment”.

The debate in the House – The first signs of agreement had begun in the Chamber at Montecitorio, during the general discussion. “We are in this House for the fifth time in eight months voting on a new budget shift,” he said. Renato Brunetta, deputy of Come on Italy and economic manager of the blue movement. “The equivalent of five budget laws in eight months. Measures that give us a sense of the moment we are living. Forza Italia and the entire center-right voted in favor of the first budget variance, saying that those resources would not have been sufficient, but nevertheless served to cover the first measures, the ‘Cura Italia’ measures. Nobody consulted us, but we voted in favor anyway. End of April, another budget variance, another vote in favor of the entire center-right, with a great sense of responsibility: 55 billion for Italy. But even on that occasion, no involvement by the majority. Two other deviations followed, in which the center-right decided to vote for abstention. I was the first to give that line ”. “In recent months almost 100 billion have been burned, often in unnecessary bonuses and subsidies, scooters are an example for everyone. Everything went fine? Absolutely not. But we as Forza Italia and as the center-right have not ridden these difficulties, we have not chosen the ‘so much the worse the better’. We have been a responsible opposition, ”he added.

Even Brothers of Italy had hinted that they did not want to oppose the provision: “We”, the deputy leader Fdi said in the Chamber Tommaso Foti in the Chamber, “we carefully assessed which credit opening to give not to the majority but to the hypothesis according to which it is in the comparison that Italy can be pushed out of the water. Our vote is not inspired by ulterior motives, and we are proudly in the opposition. We have no desire for confusion or mixing of roles. This vote is not for you, it is for Italy ”. Finally, the League had subordinated the green light to the answers from the government, but the tone had already appeared more relaxed: “If there will be any openings on the requests it has been making for some time on the tax reduction, it will vote in favor of the deviation, but the measures we have seen have not been well done. We need a rebalancing between guaranteed and unsecured. The taxes and contributions must not be moved but must be canceled. It is a requirement of the country, additional resources immediately in the budget law, to let citizens know immediately that the state exists. The League exists: however, we have the right to have the government respect and transparency of data ”.

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