(Finance) – “Protection of the planet, pensions, rents and wages will be the central points of the Democratic Party’s election campaign because they are the thorns that prick the weakest groups the most”. This is the picture drawn by Minister of Labor Andrea Orlando in his speech yesterday in Zapping on Rai Radio 1.
“The Democratic Party is the party that will fight against social inequalities with more coherence, we cannot delegate this flag to anyone – he stressed. Orlando -. On the pensions the objective is an adjustment to inflationary trends. It won’t be like the escalator, but inflation will be with us for a while and we can’t afford to let a slice of retirees slip into poverty. There is a worrying number of poor people in our country and we need to do something “.
Orlando reiterated the will of the Democratic Party to maintain citizenship income. “The citizenship income, according to Istat, has saved 1 million people from absolute poverty. I do not think there will be anyone who will want to cut it with the risk of plunging those people into poverty” said the Minister of Labor. attacked the proposal to introduce the flat tax. “The money for the flat tax – he said Orlando – they will go looking for them by cutting where it can be done unilaterally: school, health care and pensions. Everyone gets an idea of which sections of the population would be most penalized “.
“We aim – he stressed Orlando – on minimum wages, overcoming the precariousness of work, contrasting the relocation of businesses, a stronger relationship with Europe, health and public education. We are opposed to the proposals of the right for a further deregulation of labor, the privatization of infrastructures and anti-European nationalism “.
On the front of work and difficulties on the part of entrepreneurs to find seasonal labor Orlando stressed that work follows contracts: “where there is less manpower – said the minister – is where there is more black and wages are lower”. To weigh also “the demographic curve of the labor market, a consistent migratory flow to other countries and training, for which the NRR – he concluded – has allocated 5 billion euros”.