The return of Fornero, the League rises – Politics

Rome, 20 July 2021 – The minister Andrea Orlando calls union leaders for July 27 to reopen the construction site pensions in view of the end of Quota 100. But on the table of the Ministry of Labor comes the bomb of the appointment of the former minister Elsa Fornero as a consultant of Palazzo Chigi: and so the red alert is triggered between leaguers (“we are not at all calm”) and grillini (“A return to the Fornero law is unthinkable”), but also in CGIL, CISL and UIL, against the one who is was considered the most rigorous of the Monti government, author of a reform tears and blood. And which, moreover, has repeatedly expressed itself precisely for the abolition tout court of the early exit channel wanted by the yellow-green government: “I would have preferred – he explained a few months ago – a specific commitment not to renew Quote 100: I would not want the government to remain entangled in the web of parties and their hunt for consensus “.

In reality, the former minister was appointed consultant to the Council for economic policy, set up ten days ago by the undersecretary with responsibility for programming, Bruno Tabacci. The task of the committee, free of charge, will be to “guide, strengthen and make efficient the activities of the Department for the planning and coordination of economic policy” directed by Marco Leonardi. But it was enough for Fornero to return to the scene again for the barrage to be immediately opened against the possible interventions of the Turin economist. And, on the other hand, how you think even after ten years is known.

“That of pensions is the only one in Europe that no longer asks us why we did it”. At the most you can do surgical operations to guarantee some more favorable way out for those who carry out heavy work and for women, with the Woman Option. It is equally well known, however, that Fornero is disliked first of all by the League: the clashes also live between the professor and Matteo Salvini are epic. And, as it turns out, the Northern League leader took the Fornero’s return to the field badly. Hence an urgent question to Orlando with the warning: “The choice of Elsa Fornero is not synonymous with tranquility and serenity, also in light of the upcoming deadline of the 100 quota experimentation”. And Massimiliano Fedriga speaks of “disaster” in the case of a return to the Fornero law. But the grillini are no less.

“Exhausted Quota 100, a return to the Fornero law is unthinkable”, press the former minister Nunzia Catalfo and the presidents of the Labor and Budget commissions of Palazzo Madama Susy Matrisciano and Daniele Pesco. Orlando himself is certainly worried, since he would not like external supervision from Palazzo Chigi on the negotiations to be started with the trade unions. Who make specific requests: an overall intervention on the pension with flexibility in leaving after 62 years of age, 41 years of contributions regardless of age (already rejected by the INPS accounts because it is too expensive), social security recognition for hard work, relaunch of supplementary pensions, restoration of the full revaluation of pensions.