La Camera vote today for confidence in the Stability law, starting at 12 and 10. At 15 on Monday 23, however, the provision will arrive in Senate for the third and final reading. The ex-financial law should therefore become law before Christmas, as in the plans of the Government, which yesterday raised the question of trust in the text just to speed up the times.
Meanwhile, the package of measures receives a rejection without appeal by the National Association of Italian Municipalities. The mayor of Turin Piero Fassino, president ofancient, expressed "profound opposition to the stability law", which would produce a hole of 1,5 billion in the coffers of the Municipalities. While awaiting answers and a solution to the criticisms already raised by local administrators in recent days, the mayors have decided to suspend "starting today, participation in the unified conference and other institutional consultation venues". Even to the President of the Republic, Giorgio Napolitano, the Anci intends to express "in the most formal and authoritative way the profound unease of thousands of mayors".
The association of Municipalities would even be ready to take legal steps: "A denial of the requests - underline the administrators - could only cause an explicit conflict between Municipalities and the State and would urge the Municipalities to assert in every seat even of justice, its legitimate reasons, starting from the unpaid credits that the Municipalities have against the State”, including the resources advanced by the local authorities and not reimbursed for the judicial administration.
“We are ready to do battle. The government must listen to us. In recent years, transfers of over 8 billion have been stolen from cities, no other institution has suffered such draconian measures. The stability of the country is at risk - said the mayor of Rome, Ignatius Marino, in an interview with La Repubblica -. There are two paths: either the rates are raised to 3,5 per thousand on first homes and 11,6 on second homes, which the Stability Law has instead set at 2,5 and 10,6, or there are other compensations that allow the municipalities to recover at least one and a half billion. Tertium non datur, unless you want to kill people."
According to the Treasury Secretary, Fabrizio Saccomanni, the criticisms of the final version of the stability bill, also rejected by Confindustria, are due to “excessive expectations on the possibility of concentrating resources, which are not huge, on strategic objectives such as reducing the tax wedge. But we had to deal with many other requests”.
