Recovery fund: Italians don’t like working groups – Chronicle

On the use of funds from the Recovery Fund Italians have no doubts. 82% think that it is correct to request it even if it is a loan and not a non-refundable loan from the European Union. However, not all that glitters is gold and the existing conflicts, not only in the opposition, especially in the parties of the ruling majority on the management and use of economic aid, are generating many doubts in public opinion both in terms of to the management capacity that the effectiveness of the Recovery.

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From the survey conducted byNoto Survey Institute It follows that for 66% of citizens, government parties in this critical period, both health and economic, should not quarrel, in fact 60% are of the idea that there should be an understanding between government and opposition to ensure that Italy can emerge as quickly as possible from the economic and social abyss in which it finds itself. In short, a radical rejection of the spectacle that politics has offered in recent weeks. First, the frictions with the other European funding called Mes that involve to a greater extent the two largest government parties: the PD (in favor) and the M5S (against). Then the opposition of the last days expressed by Renzi on how Prime Minister Conte thought to manage the Recovery funds. A climate of uncertainty, therefore, which, beyond establishing who is right or who is wrong, contributes to creating in public opinion the concept that politics is incapable of taking responsibility at such a delicate moment. Here, then, there is a fact that seems contradictory but that actually describes well the current relationship between citizens and the ruling class and what it should be. In fact, if 54% think that the Government will not be able to manage the European loan correctly, at the same time 63% believe that politics should manage the funds and not a group of managers (25%).

These judgments need further specification. For the majority of Italians, the idea that the organization of the use of funds is delegated to a third structure, although composed of professional profiles capable of planning economic interventions, represents in itself a defeat for politics and, therefore, indirectly it becomes a delegitimization. both the Government and the opposition. Probably this concept has a significant impact on the opinion expressed by the majority (55%) who, despite being in favor of the funds, fear that the result of restarting Italy will not be achieved. In short, it is as if from an ideological point of view it is believed that the best thing is political management, from the point of view of realpolitik this solution is feared.