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December 06, 2019The President of the Council at the end of the summit at Palazzo Chigi met the journalists and announced that there is a complete agreement on the maneuver in the majority. "Today we worked on the details". "It is a meeting to inform you journalists and citizens: we worked today and yesterday to finalize the final details of the budget bill. We have a complete picture" which, without prejudice to the prerogatives of the parliament, "marks an agreement" in the majority "said Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte.

"We thought it appropriate and wise to reduce the impact of 85% of the plastic tax and postpone it" to the first of July. On the sugar tax "we have decided that it is more appropriate to do it from 1 October," the Prime Minister said, explaining that companies will "have plenty of time to rework production lines and business strategies". "We have canceled the car tax
company, "said Prime Minister Conte.

"We have worked intensely and we have done a job with very interesting results. We will give more money to families, with the fund for large families, and to all citizens because we will distribute 3 billion super bribes in the 2020 balance sheet. digitized, with a payment almost zero or in any case reduced by commissions, there will be the possibility of seeing as many as 3 billion dollars returned to the Befana. We eliminated the superticket, reduced the tax wedge, increased the disability fund ". Thus the President of the Council, Giuseppe Conte, at the press conference at Palazzo Chigi on the maneuver. "We preach the green new deal but we also work hard to follow it," he added.

Gualtieri: finding intense work resources
"Finding the framework on the resources was a very intense job, but a choral one, which in the face of the common goals we had set ourselves found positive solutions." Thus stated Economy Minister, Roberto Gualtieri, after the majority summit on the maneuver.

Count: in the final straight, then reform table
"We look forward to bringing the maneuver into the finishing line, then we are all eager to get around a table to carry out a series of policy reforms." President of the Council, Giuseppe Conte, said this at a press conference after the summit on the Palazzo Chigi maneuver, explaining that the government has "many other reforms in the pipeline". "This country - he added - must catch up and walk quickly in this direction, all political forces agree".

Found the square on the maneuver
If they said all sorts of things, they arrived very close to the point of no return, but in the end the majority found the square on the maneuver. It is a 'non-victory' for everyone, because the Plastic tax drops to 0.49 euro cents per kilogram and will start from July 2020, while the sugar tax will simply slip in October next year. The glass, therefore, is half empty for Italy alive, which had asked for the cancellation of the two purpose taxes, beating its fists on the table to even threaten to abandon it. Same result also for the 5 Star Movement which collects its themes even if in a reduced form (and proposes to increase the taxation on games to increase the fund to equate the salaries of the fire brigade with those of the law enforcement agencies), while the Democratic Party is forced to yield to the demands of former party comrades, but at least retains the cut in the tax wedge on dependent labor. It took, however, about 30 hours of summits, punishment and response to the poison, mediations and toads swallowed before arriving at the agreement, of which Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte immediately informed the head of state, Sergio Mattarella.

The brawl broke out on resources, when in the discussion the Economy Minister, Roberto Gualtieri, announced that he had found another 400 million. A 'treasure' that immediately appealed to everyone, especially in Italy that asked to move them to abolish the purpose taxes. A solution that has never convinced the Democratic Party, to the point of engaging in a hit and a media response to poison with former party comrades: "Italia Viva favors carbonated soft drinks companies, such as Coca Cola, to Italian workers. It does not want to diminish the taxes on work but think only of removing the Sugar Tax, to favor companies with shares that are not based in Italy either ". An inadmissible accusation for Teresa Bellanova. The head of the delegation of Iv, in fact, didn't take long to reply: "To divide the workers is miserable". This is what happened to the Deputy Minister of the Economy, Antonio Misiani, who rebutted by accusing the government allies of having proposed "to remove 250 million from the tax wedge for workers and to allocate them to the reduction of plastic and sugar tax". The rejoinder arrived punctually from Luigi Marattin: "In the Pd they have a Soviet vision of the economy".

It seemed the prologue to a new crisis of government, with Renzi ready to evoke the ballot boxes while the deputy secretary of the Democratic Party, Andrea Orlando, assured that Plastic and sugar tax would not come out of the maneuver, the confirmation that a big thing would be success. And in fact the risk has been taken, because the tension was very high at Palazzo Chigi, to the point that - tell majority sources - Bellanova would have told his colleagues: "If there are not the changes we ask, the government has a problem and yes call Matteo Renzi ". As often happens in politics, then, mediation has managed to bring the clash back to a more acceptable dialectic and the proposal to reduce the purpose taxes by postponing the entry into force has unblocked the dangerous impasse. As they say: if everyone is a little unhappy with the agreement, it is a good agreement. Now the agreement will be put on paper and presented in the form of a government amendment to the Senate Budget Committee, where the proposals for changes to the Chamber for an unusual single examination of the Budget law, which the government would like to approve in just two parliamentary passages. In which, however, the opposition announces a tough battle with a united, determined three-point center (Berlusconi-Meloni-Salvini). It will be an excellent test for the majority that, even if quarrelsome, still gives signs of being able to withstand the shock wave.