The Public Administration facelift has been postponed to a date to be defined. The boiling political climate over the Berlusconi affair and a series of resistances within the PDL have lengthened the timing of the provision, which should have been approved today. In the Council of Ministers - reports undersecretary Filippo Patroni Griffi - "a technical and political agreement was reached on the content" of the PA package and now in-depth analysis has become necessary to distribute these rules between decree-laws and bills" .
Spending cut, blocking of new purchases and precarious workers. According to rumors, these are the three of the 10 ingredients for the powerful facelift to the Public Administration.
The text, made up of 10 articles, should provide for a 20 percent cut on spending in 2012. To end up under the ax of savings would be blue cars, good taxis and consultancy. Until 2015, it will not be possible to make new purchases or leases of cars.
There should also be room for the 150 precarious workers in the PA. Preferential lane for workers who have had contracts for at least three years in the last 5 years, who will see 50 percent of the places made available reserved in the competitions that will be held until the end of 2015. According to the unions, they should fall into the category around 50-60 thousand people. The text provides that until the end of 2015 "central administrations must carry out recruitments using their own rankings of winners and suitable", which are extended by another two years.
The article concerning the territorial cohesion agency, foreseen in the legislative decree, could be skipped. The agency would release some 30 billion euros earmarked for development. This rule, again according to what is learned, would also be possibly due to the opposition of the PDL.
It was already understood in the morning that the wind was blowing a postponement, when Renato Brunetta, PDL group leader in the chamber, had anticipated that it was not a question of approval, but rather of discussion. A discussion that will start again on Monday.
