The Deputy Prime Minister of the Five Stars, Luigi Di Maio, threatens an immediate, sudden and retroactive coup on medium-high pensions to rake in a billion to be allocated to basic income and minimum pensions. Speaking yesterday in Turin, according to what "la Repubblica" reported this morning, Di Maio anticipated that the Lega-Five Star bill on the so-called golden pensions, currently being examined by the Chamber and already branded unconstitutional, will be implemented and tightened from the tax decree that the Council of Ministers will fire tomorrow.
According to Di Maio, all pensions above 3.500 euros net (and not just those above 4.500 as initially envisaged) will be cut based on the current retirement age with lots of cheers to entitlements and the laws in place when pension check holders decided to retire.
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It would be one measure-bomb with immediate effect, being included in the tax decree, which risks raising widespread social protests but above all opening the door to new injustices, a shower of appeals and the foreseeable intervention of the Constitutional Court.
But at this point we will have to see what the League will do who, through his pension expert Alberto Brambilla, had already distanced himself from the Molinari-Uva soft bill, alternatively supporting a one-off solidarity contribution paid by the wealthiest citizens. But it will also be necessary to see if the Quirinale will feel able to sign a provision clearly unrelated to the matter of the decree and which it is not clear why it should be considered "necessary and urgent".
Faced with the immediate protest of the company managers (Cida), unspecified government sources in the M5S area denied in the late morning that the Government plans to lower the monthly subsidy to 3.500 euros beyond which the cuts can be triggered. But the "yellow" remains both because everyone heard Di Maio yesterday and because, if we go back to the threshold of 4.500 euros per month, the accounts do not add up because it would be impossible to raise the billion that the Government is looking for. So? In the next few hours we will see if and how the Government and above all Di Maio will try to get out of the beautiful mess they have made with their own hands.
