Forced marches are being worked on in the Senate – including sittings at night – to correct and further define the details of the Government's manoeuvre. The deadline for tabling amendments expires at 20. Tomorrow morning the hearings of Bank of Italy, the Court of Auditors, Istat and Cnel are scheduled, then the Budget commissions of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies meeting jointly in Palazzo Madama will enter the heart of the discussion.
It begins tomorrow morning at 9.30 with Ignazio Visco of Bankitalia, followed at 10.30 by representatives of the Court of Auditors. At 11.30 it will be the turn of Istat and at 12.30 it will be the turn of Cnel. From 14.30 the commission will start examining the amendments. Agenda full of meetings for a week that promises to be on fire. As many as 13 meetings have been scheduled: after tomorrow's 9.30 for the hearings, work sessions are scheduled until Friday at 9.30, 14.30 and 20.30 until Friday, with four night sessions.
A meeting is also scheduled for Saturday morning at 9. And in the meantime, while we look at the Arcore meeting, there is anticipation for the expiry of the deadline for the presentation of the amendments, tonight at 20. At the moment, the commission, few have been filed, but before the deadline their number is destined to grow dramatically. All the oppositions presented their correctives, destined to turn into amending hypotheses.
The position of the IDV is well known: repeal of the Provinces, cutting the costs of politics (with the abolition of annuities) and waste, the fight against tax evasion. A few dozen amendments (between 30 and 50) should come from the Democratic Party, whose proposals revolve around the ten points of the alternative maneuver presented in recent days by the secretary Pier Luigi Bersani.
Then there are the corrections proposed by the Third Pole, illustrated this afternoon, which envisage, among other things, interventions on pensions with a reform that should lead to the cancellation of the quota system from 2012 and allow people to retire either at 65 or at 40 of contributions.
