Double yes to the Senate on the Def. The Hall of Palazzo Madama approved the majority resolution on the update note of the Economic and Financial Document with 164 yes, 108 votes against and one abstention. All the amendments presented on which the government had expressed a negative opinion were rejected.
Green light also for the majority resolution on the Def which provides for a deviation from the balanced budget by 1,6 points of GDP. The senators expressed themselves with 181 votes in favour, 107 against and no abstentions.
Numbers in hand, therefore, the parliamentary test was passed with relative simplicity despite the tensions that the majority had experienced in recent days.
In the resolution on the update note to the Def, however, the majority asked the government to commit itself on a series of issues.
The first is the gradual revision of the so-called superticket, with the aim of limiting costs for those using the public system. Not only that: in the three-year period 2018-2020 the resolution pushes for a "complex of interventions in health matters", including an increase in capital resources for investments in health.
The Minister of Economy, Pier Carlo Padoan, replied that "the health system is certainly an area in which improvement and efficiency measures will need to be evaluated".
The majority then asks to strengthen the system of allowances for dependent children with the rationalization of the current institutions. Another hypothesis seen favorably would be the extension of the reduction to 10 per cent of the dry coupon on housing rents and "possibly extend the system of substitute taxation also on income deriving from the rental of properties for non-residential use".
The executive is then committed to completing the sterilization of the safeguard clauses on indirect taxes for the year 2018 and to supporting investments, encouraging private ones in capital and intangible assets.
The promotion of an increase in employment is also called for, especially on permanent contracts for young people, through new work decontribution interventions, together with the strengthening of the tools for fighting poverty and social exclusion, increasing the resources destined to finance inclusion income. Refinancing linked to the contract renewal of the public sector is also required.
