PALERMO – There are 135 articles of the regional stability bill that was hinged this afternoon in the Sala d’Ercole; the number is net of the 25 articles removed by the Ars Presidency for unconstitutionality. The deadline for amendments expires tomorrow at midnight. Also tomorrow the group leader should establish the timing, the president Gianfranco Micciché will propose the general discussion for Friday and the voting of the articles starting from next Monday.
As mentioned, twenty-five articles of the stability law have been removed by the Ars Presidency from the text approved in recent days by the Budget Commission with a text that has become “monstrous” compared to the initial one. To explain the reasons for the removal was the president of Ars, Gianfranco Miccichè, opening the parliamentary session this afternoon. “The offices also worked on Saturday and Sunday, I had to delete some articles because they were unconstitutional,” said Miccichè, who appeared subdued probably due to the long confrontation he had in the last few hours with the majority and the opposition because the text arrived in the commission The budget with about fifty articles then quadrupled due to the amendments of the deputies. Many of the articles included during the work of the commission, which approved the bill on Saturday at dawn, are of an orderly nature, confirmed the president of Ars. Miccichè has given time until noon tomorrow for the amendments to the budget and until midnight, again tomorrow, for those to the stability law.
“There will be no obstacle to any additional always of a legal nature, obviously I do not expect a thousand because we need to rush with the work,” he stressed, thus launching an appeal to common sense.
Micciché hoped for a peaceful confrontation between the majority and the opposition, precisely because of the mass of the rules included in the text and anticipated the proposal that he will make tomorrow to the group leaders on the road map, before the session in the Sala d’Ercole, convened at 4 pm for approval of the 2021 budget and the internal budget of Ars. “My idea would be to work next Friday only to start the work of the financial institution (with the general discussion, ed), then from Monday every day in the afternoon as a habit – he suggested – If I understand that it will be necessary to increase the working hours I would also like to be in the classroom on Saturdays and Sundays ».
So the appeal to the classroom: “The Region is under provisional management and we must try to do it as soon as possible because there are people who risk not getting their salary.”
And to the M5s, which in the classroom anticipated the desire to present additional amendments to the stability bill, the ARS president replied. “Of course, the add-ons can be presented and we will evaluate them, but we are not in a position to take the job, we have to run and do things right, because the risk is that if this month is exceeded there will be people who will not take the salary, and this we cannot afford it, it would mean that we are not a ruling class capable of managing the island and I think instead we are ».
The text should have obtained the green light on February 28th on the basis of the agreement between the Region and the State on spreading the deficit in ten years. At the moment, therefore, the Region is, as mentioned by Micciché, in provisional management with the expenditure blocked, with the exception of mandatory payments.
The classroom will meet tomorrow, at 4pm.