(Finance) – It began in the Senate shortly after 2pm general discussion on the budget bill, arrived in the Chamber without a mandate to the speaker in the text approved last week by the Chamber. The proceedings should continue for over 5 hours given that 36 registered people will speak. At the end of the discussion, the government’s request for confidence is expected and will be voted on tomorrow morning.
The rapporteur of the maneuver in the Senate Budget Committee, Guido Liris (FdI)announced that he had resigned given the impossibility of being able to work on the provision in the Commission due to the very short time remaining at Palazzo Madama for the second reading. “I asked the President of the Commission to act as a mediator so that there is no longer a single parliamentary reading and so that we return to double reading” he said, adding that “this is the will of the majority. We must return to double reading which has not been been more done.” For Liris there were “no times or ways to be able to arrive at 2pm in the chamber examining 817 amendments and 60 agendas. It is hoped – he added – that what happened this time will never happen again, with the times that were managed in too narrow a manner in the Senate because of the Chamber. It is not just this: since 2018 a habit has been acquired which, while it had a justification during Covid, today is no longer justified by the fact of having arrived at a unicameralism on the management of such important measures as that of the budget”.
And the Minister of Economy Giancarlo Giorgetti commenting on the possibility that the government will take into account the protests due to the lack of a double reading on the maneuver with the reform of the accounting law. “I don’t know how many years, unfortunately, this has been the case. Since the accounting law needs to be reformed in any case on the basis of the new European rules, preliminary work has already started. But rightly so – he said Giorgetti – it is a parliamentary matter, not a government one, the initiative must be parliamentary on these things. A slight revision of the mechanisms and also of the rules is necessary. We are absolutely available and have given availability”. With the change in EU rules – he added – “there has also arisen the need to update a law which today implies that the coverage is not simply the traditional one but that it also respects the net spending trajectory which did not exist until recently. She would be welcome.”
After two months of gestation in the Chamber, little funds for the changes with the balances remaining substantially unchanged, the Senate in just over 24 hours, without having touched it, will therefore definitively approve the third maneuver of Giorgia Meloni’s government. Thirty billion which will go to low incomes and families, as claimed by the Prime Minister who is preparing to recall her ministers on December 28th for a final meeting of the Council of Ministers before the end of the year.