Former Ilva: it was the Conte 2 Government that signed the noose contract with ArcelorMittal in 2020 that knocked out Taranto

Responsibilities for the crisisformer Ilva and the most important European steel plant such as that of Taranto there are many and for five years now the central governments, local authorities, the Puglia Region, the Apulian judiciary and trade unions and above all the multinational have been investing ArcelorMittal. Already the appointment of a CEO in October 2019 Lucia Morselli, famous only as a "head cutter" who included the disaster in her curriculum Terni steelworks of the Thyssen group, had already made it clear that the Mittals' intention was certainly not to support the development of the Taranto plant but, on the contrary, to neutralize it. But the turning point that accelerated the crisis of the former Ilva (then Steelworks of Italy, AdI) is the noose agreement signed in 2020 by Conte government 2 with ArcelorMittal unbalancing the governance of the steel company by assigning all management powers to the multinational and leaving the Italian side with a flag presidency with the sole task of convening the AdI board of directors and establishing the agenda. Not by chance the President Franco Bernabe he had denounced the inaction of the company by placing his mandate in the hands of the Meloni government, which let the Taranto case fester for too long. The list of disasters committed by Giuseppe Conte and his governments is long - from a clumsy Citizen's Income, which never created the promised jobs but only distributed patronage checks, especially in the South, to the enormity of the costs of the Superbonus at the expense of taxpayers and to the benefit of the wealthiest with a ridiculous impact on GDP - not to mention the unfortunate lack of confidence in the Draghi Government, the best of the last thirty years. But, however the soap opera of Taranto and the former Ilva ends, it will be impossible to forget the damage caused by Conte and the Five Star Movement even in the iron metallurgy and therefore the people's advocate deserves to end up immediately down from the tower.