Condominiums, proposal on arrears splits the majority. Salvini: 'No new bureaucracy'

After pensions, the majority stumbles over condominiums. The echo of the government's disputed amendment with the double squeeze on pensions (lengthening of the time for early retirement and penalisation of the redemption of the degree) and the subsequent partial retreat has not yet died down, and the controversy has broken out over the bill presented to the House by Fdi, first signatory Elisabetta Gardini, for the reform of condominiums. A proposal that, in order to improve accounting transparency, introduces not only traceable payments, a degree requirement for the administrator and new accounting figures, but also the possibility for creditors in the event of unpaid debts to take recourse in the first instance against all condominiums, not just those in arrears ("creditors may act on the sums available on the condominium current account for the entire credit claimed and, subsidiarily, on the property of condominiums to the extent of the arrears of each").

Early in the morning comes the League's trumpet blast, entrusted to the agencies. "The condominium reform bis, as hypothesised by Bill 2692, has obvious criticalities and is not shared by the League".

Following this, Carroccio secretary Matteo Salvini, interviewed on Rtl 102.5, re-launches: 'Some technical choices from the League's point of view must be changed: no lengthening of the retirement age, no compensation for those who redeem their degree, no new regulations, new bureaucracy for condominiums and tenants who fulfil their duty'.

And Alberto Luigi Gusmeroli, chairman of the Productive Activities, Commerce and Tourism Committee in Montecitorio and the League's tax commissioner, adds: "No to bills that increase condominium expenses, multiply administrative obligations and end up penalising honest citizens, favouring instead the condominium scoundrels," he says. According to the Honourable Member, the real risk is that 'while the costs for virtuous condominiums increase, the delinquent and the smart ones continue not to pay, offloading the economic burden on others'. For the League, 'before introducing new obligations it is necessary to listen to the categories concerned and intervene with effective instruments against insolvency and to protect honest owners, not by further aggravating family budgets'.

The pressure becomes so high in the majority, on an issue as heartfelt in the centre-right as housing, that Fratelli d'Italia's group leader in the Chamber of Deputies, Galeazzo Bignami. has to intervene to distance himself from the Gardini bill, which has been downgraded to "a proposal that, like many others, is under discussion in the Chamber and whose purpose is to protect honest owners and condominiums from incorrect management, a widespread problem that affects many citizens". But 'since it is a proposal, it is indispensable to have a confrontation between all the stakeholders in order to build a common-sense position to protect Italians' homes, without which Fratelli d'Italia believes that it will not be able to continue its course'.