To carry out reforms, it is not enough to approve a decree or a bill in the Council of Ministers. In addition to supporting their parliamentary approval, to make the reforms a reality it is essential to approve their implementing decrees. So far, however, this has not happened with the Conte bis government. Out of 169 implementing decrees on the agenda, the Government approved only 2, with an implementation percentage of 1,2%. This is what can be deduced from the meticulous legislative accounting of the Sole 24 Ore which yesterday photographed the Government's delays in a merciless way.
"The implementation work on the economic reforms launched by the current Executive - writes the economic daily - is practically immobile".
In particular, out of 8 application decrees required by the cybersecurity decree, not a single one has been passed. On the fiscal side of the 37 necessary implementing decrees, only one has so far been put in place. And on the budget law, which requires 124 application decrees, only one application decree has so far been implemented.
Things went a little better as regards the implementation of the decrees linked to the reforms or counter-reforms of the first Conte government but not so as regards the decrees inherited by the Renzi and Gentiloni governments.
In short, the numbers speak for themselves: it is useless to advertise the reforms if the implementing decrees are missing. And this time the fault does not lie with Parliament but wholly and exclusively with the government in office, which also on this terrain seems to have lost its initial push for some time.
