On Tuesday the Council of Ministers set the 28st May the date for the referendum on vouchers and tenders, promoted by the CGIL. However, it is likely that the consultations will not ultimately take place. In any case, the government wants to defuse the votes and could issue it on Friday a decree to satisfy the CGIL on the voucher front, limiting its use only to families. In this way the question would be passed and the referendum cancelled.
A meeting was held on Tuesday evening at Palazzo Chigi which was attended by Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni, the Minister of Labor Giuliano Poletti, the chairman of the Labor Commission Cesare Damiano and the Pd group leaders of the Chamber and Senate Ettore Rosato and Luigi Zanda. At the end of the meeting it emerged that the intention is to have the go-ahead from the Labor commission of the Chamber for the text by Thursday, which would then be transformed as early as Friday in the Council of Ministers into a decree law and would thus immediately enter into force.
“It is not excluded that there is a decree law on vouchers – he confirmed to Sky Tg24 Economia Poletti – If it were necessary to have times compatible with the situation we are facing, the government could take the contents of the debate that is underway today in the Chamber and make them become a decree, it is possible but it is not certain that it is the only way . Tomorrow or the day after the work commission of the Chamber will conclude the first part of the activity and will define a hypothesis. The government, which has been in dialogue with the commission up to now, will take that position as a reference, then make its decisions".
Yesterday the leader of the CGIL, Susanna Camusso, explained in an interview with La Repubblica that the union would be willing to take a step back on the vote if the parliament allowed the use of vouchers only to families and "to pay the occasional service of the long-term unemployed, pensioners and students ”. Furthermore, the sale of good work should be granted exclusively to INPS (no longer also to tobacconists), so as to monitor the use of these tools more precisely.
