It is time to liberalizations, and then the professional orders are compacted under the sign of the protest. The the first of March, overcoming the internal rifts, the “Professional day” has been announced, the day defined – with a certain taste for opera – of the pride of Italian professionals, gathered to demonstrate the social value of the professions. The day will develop around the 150 offices located in various cities and will also be enriched with various multimedia contributions, from the live streaming of the event to social networks.
Obviously there are those who believe that it is of a protest against the Monti government and its liberalization plan, of nothing but a new form of the strenuous defense of their privileges, by professionals, in the face of the attack of the law decree.
The organizers deny this line, arguing that theirs will not be an "against" demonstration, but a day that ultimately aims to affirm the value of the professions in the growth of the country and in the protection of the citizen, which must be able to count, according to them, on a control system that cannot in any way be in force outside the Orders. The main theme of the discussion will be safety, in all meanings of the term, ranging from "food" safety to physical safety.
But the Professional day remains only a chapter of a broader discourse, and of a protest, especially that of lawyers, which will become increasingly popular in the month of March, with the strike from the 15th to the 23rd of the month, proclaimed by the OUA (unitary body of the Italian lawyers), which will culminate in the national demonstration on 15 March in Rome and in the Extraordinary Congress in Milan scheduled for 23-24 March.
The nodes of the clash remain the same: the elimination of the rule that provides for share capital partners in professional studios, which, according to the OAU, would risk creating ethical problems (and on which, in any case, the government has already partially reversed by reducing to 33% the maximum percentage of participation of external capital within professional studios); the abolition of minimum fares (provided for by article 9 of the bill) which, again according to the OAU, would lead to the lack of references in drawing up the tariffs; the cancellation of the most peripheral judicial offices and the extension of the mediation obligation for accidents and condominiums.
The ball will then pass to the executive, who is then called to show its consistency in the face of growing pressure from lobbies and the cracks within a heterogeneous majority that always risks breaking apart in the face of the hottest issues.
