"I am willing to run the risk of losing consensus after making the reforms, I am willing to lose the elections, but I am not willing to run the risk of wasting time". Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said this in the Chamber this morning, illustrating the programmatic lines of government action in the next "thousand days", ie in the remaining part of the legislature.
“The thousand days are the last chance to make up for the time lost in the past years – continued the Premier -. We are not interested in keeping the legislature standing, but Italy, in a difficult international context. The world is racing, the Eurozone is at a standstill and Italy has stopped its fall, but this is not enough. Degrowth is never happy. We want to return to growth starting from the number of employed people. The government proposes that you arrive at the natural expiry of the legislature knowing that it is the faculty of the Chambers to deny confidence at any time. But on this side of the table we are not in the least afraid of dealing with the Italians. If we want to get to the end of the term, we'll do it only because we intend to put Italy's interests before particular interests”.
ELECTION LAW
Coming to the electoral law, according to Renzi “the current one is the victory of the incapacity of the political class. It was the Constitutional Court that disciplined the reform. It is not a question of inventing an ad hoc electoral law, a point of balance must be found, but the responsibility of governing must be placed on whoever wins the elections. In Sweden and Germany, whoever wins the elections has not been enabled to govern. This is what happens where there isn't a ballot, where there isn't a sufficient majority bonus”.
EMPLOYMENT TAXES
As for the 80 euro chapter, “we have restored purchasing power to the middle class, which has been bombarded in recent years – continued the Prime Minister -. Of course, it doesn't involve everyone, but we have started the process of lightening the tax burden. Those who say today that we should reduce workers' wages because this would be an investment in growth not only do not know the Italian reality, but are aiming for an Italy that is no longer able to produce quality products. Thinking you can produce for less what everyone else is doing is an attitude that leads to an endless spiral. We have to reduce the cost of work for companies and we started with a 10% reduction in Irap: still not enough, but it had never been done before”. Now, however, "we need a shared and unified strategy that leads to tax simplification, the lowering of the tax burden on labor which we will pursue from 2015, as we did in 2014, and with the involvement of the middle class".
On the subject of labor law, on the other hand, "we do not accept that citizens are divided into series A and series B classes - remarked the head of government -, so, for example, if you are an employee you have the right to maternity leave while if you are a VAT number you are not entitled to anything. I say to the tougher left on the need to change the world of work that the left is about fighting injustice, not defending it. If the labor reform proceeds within certain and tight deadlines, we will respect the work of Parliament. Otherwise we are ready to intervene urgently because we cannot waste another minute at work". And as far as social safety nets are concerned, "I think that in 2015 we will have the resources to expand their extension by reducing their number" and size, with the aim of encouraging relocation into the world of work.
JUSTICE
As regards civil justice, “the Italian one takes an average of 495 days to arrive at a sentence, while the French and the Germans stay under a year – underlined the Premier -. The measures put in place aim to overcome this problem. It is evident that the central problem is not the holidays of the magistrates, but one cannot think that it is not right to reduce the summer closure of the courts which today is 45 days, from August 15st to September XNUMXth ", while not questioning " the independence of the judiciary".
Renzi then affirmed the need for a guarantor attitude, referring to the Eni case and the investigations into candidates for the Pd primaries for Emilia Romagna: "In these hours, the first Italian company and the 22nd company in the world" is under investigation, " we await the investigations and we will respect the sentences but we do not allow a scoop to question tens of thousands of jobs or warranty notices more or less telephoned in the newspapers to change the industrial policy of this country". A notice of guarantee "cannot represent a vulnerability for the political and entrepreneurial life of a person".
CIVIL RIGHTS AND RAI
Renzi also announced that "at the end of the 1000 days there will be a law on civil rights and a reform of Rai in which governance will be removed from party choices".
