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In a letter to the Corriere della Sera Silvio Berlusconi reaffirms Forza Italia’s intention to respond positively to the call of the Head of State for institutional collaboration. “It is a natural choice for us, we even take it for granted, since it is assumed that it is not a question of political support for a government that we do not approve and a majority whose values and programs are incompatible with ours”. Reaffirmed the distance with the Giallorossi majority, where does the desire to help the government come from? “From our values, which are liberal, Christian, pro-European, guarantors -explains Berlusconi- we have a duty of responsibility towards Italians and therefore the will to lend a hand, from the opposition, to get Italy out of the emergency in which we It is even unnecessary to add that this does not question our belonging to the center-right, that it is not only our house, a house that we have founded and that we also grow at the cost of great sacrifice, but without us it could never win, much less govern. ”.
“Italy is in the midst of a dramatic crisis – continues the Knight – a health and economic crisis without equal at least since the postwar period. It is an emergency situation that affects the whole world, but in Italy it grafts itself into a series of problems historical, structural weaknesses and inequalities, unresolved contradictions … Simplifying, the situation is the following: those who are already guaranteed – employees, public employment – somehow continue to be guaranteed, at least for the moment, in this crisis. were not guaranteed before, self-employment, I Merchants, the craftsmen, I professionals, small and very small entrepreneurs, VAT numbersOutsourced workers today run the risk of being left to their own devices. The anger, the pain, the despair that we see in the eyes of many – who see the activity of their lives, the sacrifices made, the hope of a future for themselves and their children – are feelings that I not only share, but require concrete and urgent answers “.
The leader of Forza Italia clarifies, to avoid doubts, not to think at all that employees are privileged: “The protections they enjoy are sacrosanct, the result of decades of historical evolution, of struggles and sacrifices that deserve absolute respect. The vast majority of them work hard and seriously, in the public and private sectors. As an entrepreneur I have had thousands of employees and they know well the extraordinary value they represent to a company. For this, however, there cannot be two Italie, one that is saved, the other – that of self-employment – that must be cared for, or allowed to sink. Also because one without the other does not hold in the long term. ”
But what does Berlusconi ask the government? Rectify this disparity, which exists between guaranteed and non-guaranteed, ensuring “self-employment, professionals, merchants, artisans, CIF, all the necessary protection, not punctual but structurally.” This request is “one of the conditions to vote together on the next budget ‘deviations’.” Technically, what should / could the government do? The first is the “suspension of all payments towards the State for these categories at least until March 31, 2021 “. Then” assign a indemnity, equivalent to an important part of declared income in the previous year, for the months of forced inactivity or severe reduction in activity. A protection similar to that which is precisely assigned to employees who lose their jobs or are laid off ”.
Finally, the practical help for about “two million professionals registered in private pension funds and the separate management of the INPS were, the only VAT numbers excluded from the non-refundable contribution of May and, therefore, also their editions in the Recent ‘decrees’. snacks. ‘ “For them – explains the Knight – it is necessary to guarantee by the end of this year asignificant assignment, adjusted for lost business volume, flat rate “.
All of these interventions obviously come at a cost to the state. How to finance them? In debt, Berlusconi explains. “Unfortunately, because we are putting a burden on future generations. But it is a ‘good’ debt, not only for reasons of justice, but because if we don’t all get out of this dramatic stage together, the future may not be there for anyone.”
The Knight’s hope is that this willingness to work for the good of the country, although collaborating “with a government very far from us”, is accepted by all the opposition, although “without confusion of roles with the majority.”
