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ROME – Those who spoke to us describe him as “discouraged.” Pasquale Tridico, 45 years old, young economist who Luigi Di Maio was placed more than a year ago at the top of the INPSIt is not the first storm you have to face. Rather. But this could cost you your chair. Because this time the case touches him in the first person and in the most beloved by the 5 stars: transparency and caste salaries. Therefore, locked in the fort, he is discouraged.
“He is learning the hard way what it is the price of anti-casting rhetoric. Hopefully the grillini is reflected. And let them learn ”, says a person who has heard it but does not want to appear because the question is delicate and lends itself to“ easy misunderstandings ”. Nunzia catalfo, the minister grillina del Lavoro who with the colleague of the Treasury, the dem Roberto Gualtieri, signed the decree that grants the salary increase to the president of the INPS (from 62,000 to 150,000 gross euros a year) has listened to Tridico several times and continues to defend her. But certainly the case exploded at the worst moment for the 5 Star Movement, after the disastrous electoral result of the regional elections.
Not only. The pentastellati run the risk of being isolated in support of the INPS president, after the premier, Giuseppe Conte, which had already summoned Tridico to Palazzo Chigi in the past due to the delays with which the institute managed Covid’s social safety nets, yesterday explained that it had requested “an in-depth analysis” and a “verification” based on the which to make your decisions. . Therefore, a situation in which, despite himself, Tridico runs the risk of becoming a pawn in the bitter confrontation that is already underway between Pd and 5 Stars.
In short, the head of the INPS president could end up in the complex game between the two major coalition parties on different issues, from the Month to the security decrees. In addition, the oppositions will not rule out. They will call on the government to report to Parliament, they will insist on the resignation of the president, they will ride the maxi pay increase launched in secret on August 7 and they will try to demolish what remains of the anti-riot identity of the Movement. Now they are the caste, the Lega, Fratelli d’Italia and Forza Italia follow them. They have already shown it by changing the statute to stay in the chair even after the second legislature and now, while rejoicing at the cut in parliamentarians approved by the referendum, they increased, without anyone knowing anything about it, Tridico’s salary from 62,000 to 150,000 euros. and also with retroactive effect, which would have given a bonus of about 100,000 euros to the president, to compensate the remuneration from May 22, 2019, when it was appointed, until April 15, 2020, the day of the inauguration of the board of directors, chaired by Tridico himself, whose emoluments are subject to the Catalan decree. Gualtieri of August 7.
And yes, because the biggest mess – leaving aside the excesses of demagoguery that, due to an inexorable law of retaliation, are discharged in the 5 Stars – lies precisely in this risk of retroactivity. It is no coincidence that yesterday the Minister of Labor rushed to deactivate. In fact, the decree would activate the new emoluments “from the date of appointment.” A provision in contrast to the provisions of the laws that, observed by the board of auditors of the same institute, establishes that they start from the day of installation. Of course it is, both INPS and Catalfo said yesterday. But the question remains that Without the findings from the university, led by an executive from the State Accounting Office, it could have been different.
In the Treasury, not without malice, they observe that this is proof that “the system works.” They also explain to the INPS that the 150 thousand euros of Tridico was an increase due, because a president cannot always talk to those who get much more than him: 240 thousand euros a year for senior managers, including regional directors, 160,000 for second level, including regional deputies. But now they are considerations overwhelmed by the political storm.
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