After the intervention in the Chamber in the morning, which gave the green light to the resolution of the majority in relation to the Recovery Plan (with 442 yes, 19 no and 51 abstentions), Prime Minister Draghi repeated the speech to the Senate at 3 pm. At the beginning a small gaffe that caused the shouting in the hall: “Honorable deputies”, before correcting it in “senators”. Then the general discussion between senators began: the reply of the Prime Minister is scheduled for 7.30 pm, the vote of the parliamentary resolution is scheduled for this evening around 9 pm.
Among the passages in the Senate, the premier emphasized some fundamental passages. First of all on the reforms: “Without these reforms we cannot spend this money well, it is already very difficult”. And he focused on the importance of the Plan: «If implemented well it has significant effects on the main economic variables. In 2026 – adds the Prime Minister – GDP will be about 3.6 percentage points higher than a reference scenario that does not take into account the implementation of the Plan. Employment also benefits, which will be higher, by 3.2 percentage points compared to the base scenario in the three-year period 2024-2026 ».
Draghi also spoke of support for the elderly: «We want our elderly people to be able to maintain or regain the maximum autonomy possible, in a context that is as de-institutionalized as possible. After the sufferings and fears of these months of pandemic, I believe it is the least we can do ». And he focused again on climate risks: “Also due to the abuses it has suffered, Italy is more exposed to climate risks than other countries”.
And then he concluded: «I must thank this Parliament for the political impulse that animates the whole Plan: the attention to the environment, young people, women, noon that informs every intervention is first of all the fruit of your action. I am sure that we will be able to implement this Plan. I am sure that honesty, intelligence, a taste for the future will prevail over corruption, stupidity, vested interests. This certainty is not reckless optimism, but trust in the Italians, in my people, in our ability to work together when the emergency calls us to solidarity, to responsibility ».
“It is necessary for the administrators of the South to learn to use the resources” of the PNRR because “using them well will be a gigantic commitment, and one of the shortcomings of the South is not being able to do so. The Court of Auditors says this. , not me for a polemical whim that I don’t have “. Thus Emma Bonino, during her speech to the Senate on the communications of the Prime Minister. On the female issue, he added, “I would have expected something more”
The attack on the figure for nursery schools: “Dramatically insufficient”
“Prime Minister Draghi, illustrating the National Recovery and Resilience Plan to the Senate, underlines, I quote verbatim, the important” paradigm shift in policies for the family and the birth rate “, and triumphantly announces the allocated figure of 4 billion and 600 millions. It is a pity that the indicated allocation includes nursery schools but also infant schools and other services dedicated to the family ». This was declared by Senator Isabella Rauti, deputy vice president of the Brothers of Italy group and head of the “Department of equal opportunities, family and non-negotiable values”: “The appropriation for the nursery plan is dramatically insufficient and moves away from the objective, indicated by the Union European, of the coverage of 60% of the necessary places, reaching – at best – perhaps the threshold of 40%. Another confirmation of the government’s inattention to the centrality of the family and the vital need to reverse the demographic winter and the collapse of the birth rate ”.
Monti: «I appreciate the Plan, the reforms are necessary. For some years you have taken steps back “
«If I had to list the reasons why I appreciate the PNRR presented by President Draghi, 4 minutes would not be enough for me. Then I will talk about the reforms, if they are not done, the European money will not arrive ». Senator for life Mario Monti says this when speaking to the Senate on Prime Minister Mario Draghi’s communications on the PNRR: «Italy, if we look back, has made reforms usually in connection with Europe. But a few years ago the counter-reforms with respect to a modern social market economy began and steps backwards were taken. With the pandemic, there is more and more holiness in the concept of “Daddy State” and “Mother Europe”. Setbacks in mentality and culture must be avoided ».