For 48% of Italians, "a strong man in power" is needed who doesn't have to worry about Parliament and elections. The detects it Census in the last Report on the social situation of the country, demonstrating a growing feeling of insecurity and intolerance towards the institutions. And that's not all: 69,8% of Italians are also convinced that episodes of intolerance and racism towards immigrants have increased in the last year, with higher values in the Center (75,7%) and in the South ( 70,2%). For 58% of those interviewed, anti-Semitism is also growing.
La search for the strong man, as expected, is felt more especially in the lower part of the social scale: the percentage rises to 56% among people with low incomes and 62% among the less educated, up to 67% among blue collar workers. For all of them, however, uncertainty dominates: according to what Censis found, it is the dominant state of mind for two out of three Italians, with the addition that anxiety for the future and distrust of others have led year after year to an attrition resulting on the one hand in "individual stratagems" of self-defense and on the other in "growing anti-democratic impulses", increasing the expectation of the "messianic strong man who solves everything".
As a result, impatience with politics, at least democratic politics, is also growing: 76% of Italians declare that they do not trust political parties, and the share rises to 89% among the unemployed and 81% among the workers. It is precisely these latter social groups that are even more dissatisfied with how democracy works in Italy: 58% of workers are, 55% of the unemployed, while the figures drop to 34% among managers and middle managers, and 42% among entrepreneurs and self-employed workers.
However, despite the aversion to institutions and migrants, 62% of Italians, according to Censis, he is convinced that we should not leave the European Union, even if 25%, i.e. one in four, is instead in favor of Italexit. If 61% say no to the return of the lira, 24% are in favor and if 49% say they are against the reactivation of customs at the internal borders of the EU, considered an obstacle to the free movement of goods and people, 32% would instead to put them back.
Part of the survey, on the other hand, focused on the issue of work. “The Censis Report – commented the president of CNEL Tiziano Treu – confirms that work is the first concern of Italians. We don't know if automation will reduce employment, but we do know that the work of the future will be increasingly cognitive. And we are not doing the necessary thing: investing in training”. The report recalled that, from the beginning of the crisis to 2018, the wages of the employee are dropped by more than 1.000 euros each year while it increased exponentially involuntary part-time.
E – as reported byIstat at the hearing on the minimum wage – the workers who earn less than 9 euros per hour gross are 2,9 million. Also for this reason, the percentage of Italians in favor of the minimum wage (identified by the Movimento 5 Stelle at around 9 euros an hour) is 75% and the share of those in favor reaches 80,7% among those with an annual income of up to 15 euros.
