The farewell of ArcelorMittal to the ex Ilva of Taranto it's now official. The Indian-French steel giant filed on Tuesday to the court of Milan the deed of withdrawal from the lease of the Apulian factory. The management of the plant and its 10.700 workers then passes into the hands of the extraordinary commissionerswho will appeal. The document will be entrusted to a judge, who will have to ascertain whether the withdrawal has a legal basis.
ArcelorMittal claims that the cancellation of the penal shield you set up a breach of contract and thus justify the withdrawal, because it compromises the implementation of the business plan.
The government does not respond with one voice. The split is in the 5 Star Movement, where a patrol of parliamentarians led by former minister Barbara Lezzi - and capable of throwing the numbers of the Executive into crisis - rejected the requests of the premier, Giuseppe Conte, who would like to find a formula to reintroduce the penal shield, perhaps by decree and with a general rule valid not only for the former Ilva.
A new majority summit will take place on Wednesday to try to mend the rift.
However, the minister and political leader of Grillo, Luigi Di Maio, clarified that "a possible reintroduction of the penal shield for ArcelorMittal would be a huge problem for the majority".
In this way the M5S deprives Conte of any negotiating and legal weapon in relations with the French-Indian group. Indeed, the Prime Minister would like to reintroducing immunity in the first place to flush out the company, depriving it of the decisive pretext chosen to abandon Taranto, but above all to be sure of prevail in the billion-dollar lawsuit that will follow.
And while the government prepares the legal battle, too the trade unions they argue that the conditions for invalidating the contract do not exist and ask for a new meeting with the government and the company.
Meanwhile, the former Ilva could see the hot area close as soon as possible e thereby interrupting production, however already reduced now to about 30%.
The workers complained on Tuesday an accident at the steel mill 2 of the plant, where a boiler containing molten metal would have leaked, spilling molten metal which would have caused very high flames.
The unions proclaimed a national strike, with a demonstration in Taranto in the program 29th November.
