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History calls the entire government into question and cannot be dismissed as a passing oversight or a minor setback that can be met with some “creative” solution.
by Guido Gentili
History calls into question the entire government and cannot be dismissed as a passing oversight or a minor setback that can be met with some “creative” solution.
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Sometimes reality surpasses fantasy. The case – brought to light by Repubblica – of the double salary of the president of the INPS, Pasquale Tridico, is not just one of them. Is much more. Write a black page about the management of public affairs in one of the most difficult moments in Italian history, in the midst of the Covid emergency. And it is a comprehensive political case, in the sense that it involves the entire government and cannot be dismissed as a passing oversight or a small setback that will perhaps be faced with some “creative” solution.
We must be clear.
It is not (and was not) conceivable that in mid-summer an inter-ministerial decree signed by the Minister of Labor Nunzia Catalfo (who institutionally supervises the INPS) and that of the Minister of Economy, Roberto Gualtieri, decided to double the salary of the president of 62 thousand euros to 150 thousand euros per year, also adjusting the other fees of the directors and the entire board of directors of Inail (including the chairman Bettoni). The retroactive effect that Repubblica also spoke about in relation to Tridico (only 100,000 euros) has been denied and will effectively be a limited retroactive effect: the new salary will in fact be valid from the exercise of effective functions by the new council of administration. administration, therefore, as of April 15, 2020.
This does not minimize the seriousness of the decision. It was unthinkable but it happened. And it is not disputed that 62,000 euros (his predecessor Tito Boeri won 103,000) may be few in the face of a helmsman’s post of a giant like the INPS.
Rather, the timing of such an unfortunate operation is surprising. In the heat of Covid emergency, while the country sinks in a sea of layoffs and with many workers still waiting and the INPS should know something. An August bombing as in the worst occasions of awards to the famous old breed, and with the justification that the Institute could proceed because in 2019 it had totaled significant savings in terms of costs. And therefore now it could proceed to raise the remuneration of the management bodies (but the auditors think otherwise).
