From Formigoni to Alemanno, strong criticism from local authorities

The Council of Ministers has just approved the (historic) anti-crisis maneuver. But the criticisms launched against the provision had already begun for a few hours: many coming from representatives of the centre-right majority, above all regional and local administrators.
Secondo Robert Formigoni, president of the Lombardy Region, the planned cuts "are further heavy sacrifices for the citizens we administer". "A maneuver that still affects local authorities will have an anti-social effect". “What they presented to us – he specified John Alemanno, mayor of Rome and vice president of Anci, the national association of Italian municipalities – is unacceptable, because we are in a purely social spending sphere. The document needs significant corrections, not mere adjustments. Alemanno met Berlusconi today and found him "perplexed".
«I would have expected something more unreasonable from Tremonti – he declared Flavio Tosi, mayor of Verona -. He made a photocopy of the previous financial maneuvers. Nion made a great effort: if there was only photocopying, even a child was capable».
As for Claudius Burlando, president of the Liguria Region (and representative of the opposition), said: "A government that makes a maneuver held by the hand of Merkel and the ECB is a government that no longer exists".
“It's a maneuver with shadows and lights – he underlined Antonio Di Pietro, leader of IDV -. Given the disastrous situation in which our country's economic and financial system finds itself, Italia dei Valori has a duty to do its part, tackling the provision in this regard”.
Pierluigi Bersani, secretary of the Democratic Party, "what little there is in this maneuver weighs on the working classes and the middle classes who pay taxes".