The Five Stars see conspiracies everywhere on the budget maneuver and think that a little hand has rigged the text. But this time they also infuriate the partners of the League and are blatantly denied by the Quirinale, while today the summit of EU heads of state and government is preparing to prosecute Italy for violating the rules on public finances, a prelude to the of an infringement procedure which threatens to inflame the markets.
To defend against bellyache of the grillina base, the deputy prime minister Luigi Di Maio claimed last night on TV that the text of the tax decree that arrived at the Quirinale had been manipulated in the part that provides for it shield for laundering and for the disappearance of funds for defrauded banks, but received two open repudiations: one from the League and one from the Quirinale.
The League has risen in the face of Di Maio's accusations: "We are serious people and we do not trick the texts of the law". But then he thought about it the Presidency of the Republic to close the case claiming that “the text of the tax decree never arrived at the Quirinale“, having been detained at Palazzo Chigi by Prime Minister Conte.
The oppositions on Di Maio are ironic: "The provision is a decree without his knowledge". And Mara Carfagna, vice president of the Forza Italia Chamber at high altitude, increases the dose: "Di Maio is imprisoned in an episode of the Addams Family: he is persecuted by the Hand".
In short, a great mess that gives an idea of the chaos that reigns over the maneuver and which today risks widening when the other European states accuse the Italian document of violating European rules.
