Fitto: Enough instrumental polemics, on spending municipalities there will be confrontation
Raffaele Fitto avoids direct attacks on the holder of the Economy after the anticipation in Il Sole 24 Ore of the draft Mef-Interno decree that modulates the spending review of municipalities, provided for by the budget law, in relation to the Pnrr funds obtained by local administrations
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"Ministers Giorgetti and Piantedosi have proposed a draft decree and, like all measures, it will be subject to discussion and further problems will be examined, but the discussion going on these days is very instrumental.
Raffaele Fitto avoids direct attacks on the holder of the Economy after the anticipation in Il Sole 24 Ore of the draft Mef-Interno decree that modulates the spending review of municipalities, provided for by the budget law, in relation to the Pnrr funds obtained by local administrations. And speaking at the Festival of Economics in Trento, she chooses, instead, to reply to the opposition that, Elly Schlein in the lead, accuses Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of being 'queen of austerity' and defines 'very serious the cuts that her executive is making to the municipalities: 250 million'.
The minister for the NRP recalls how local spending is the result of a provision in the budget law that 'explicitly excludes all municipal funds for social welfare and kindergartens from the spending reduction', challenging Schlein's version at the root that 'with the Plan we can build the walls of the kindergartens but with Meloni's cuts there will be no resources for educators and teachers'.
On Giorgetti's desired method, however, i.e. the decision to impose greater cuts on those who have received more Pnrr resources, he does not mince his words. He only promises to 'listen' to the reasons of the mayors, who are in the trenches against what they consider a punitive mechanism for the most effective administrations on Pnrr.
As for the Plan's progress - so far, 230 targets have been met, 387 are missing - Fitto claims to have carried out the revision and has invited us to look at 'the glass half full': the timetable of the interventions has been respected so far, the first four instalments have been collected, and the fifth instalment of 10.6 billion 'is a matter of days, we are working'. And even on the 37 targets to be reached by 30 June to collect the sixth instalment of 8.5 billion, the minister said he was 'optimistic'.
