After the Chamber, the Senate also approves the budget variance. Count satisfied

• Budget gap: ok of the House with 552 yes, the Center-right votes in favor

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November 26, 2020 The Senate Chamber also approved (after the Chamber this morning) with 278 yes, 4 no and 4 abstentions, the resolution presented by the majority approving the Government's request for a fourth budget gap for 2020 equal to 8 billion .

Even the center-right, united, voted in favor of Montecitorio first and then Palazzo Madama.

A vote welcomed with satisfaction by the Prime Minister ("an excellent signal at this time of particular difficulty that the country is going through"), who hopes that the dialogue with the opposition can now continue, to which he recognizes "a constructive approach" and for this reason he thanks them, "in particular, those who have wanted to pursue" this line "from the beginning, with determination but always with clarity of roles", he adds, referring - without specifically mentioning it - to Forza Italia.

Giuseppe Conte claims: "The vote is also the sign that the lines of intervention planned by the government" on the self-employed "are guidelines that enjoy wide appreciation by all the political forces, as evidently considered to respond to the most urgent needs of the national community ".

After a long negotiation with the majority and the government, it was Silvio Berlusconi who broke the delay and announced in the morning, before the start of the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies, the favorable vote of Forza Italia.

A move that in fact forced the position of Lega and FdI, up to that moment still cautious pending a favorable response from the executive to the requests on self-employed and VAT numbers.

Eventually, the government's response comes, black and white in the majority resolution.

The crucial passage reads: "Proposals aimed at strengthening the effectiveness of interventions to support self-employed workers, traders, artisans, professionals, by extending the tax moratorium to all economic activities that have suffered significant drops, should be considered favorably of turnover; it is necessary to start a comparison for the definition of an organic mechanism of an equalization nature that goes beyond the areas of pandemic risk and the Ateco codes and is based on the reimbursement of part of the fixed costs, providing for the possibility of attributing the refreshments also to workers self-employed and freelancers who have not benefited from it ".

The center-right presents a unitary resolution, on which the executive gives the opposite opinion.

But now the game is already closed, the green light also arrives from FdI and Lega.

Unanimous vote that was also repeated in the Senate.

The favorable vote of the entire center-right also gives oxygen to the majority, but mainly the center-right regroups, after an eve that has not always seen FI, Lega and FdI travel in unison.

The clarifications of the three opposition forces speak clearly: "Support" for the deviation "has nothing to do with support for the government," says Antonio Tajani.

Giorgia Meloni claims the victory of the center-right: "The government agrees with us even if it's late".

And Matteo Salvini assures: "If this listening process continues, it is only the beginning", immediately giving the Lega's willingness to sit at the table on school and tax reform.

The first to comment is the secretary dem Nicola Zingaretti, who claims that the Democratic Party was the first party to push for dialogue: "Italy uniting on what to do in this dramatic emergency is good news. We fought for this goal that has now been achieved. Now let's defeat Covid: let's give people back trust and hope ".

And the head of the delegation of the Democratic Party, Minister Dario Franceschini, acknowledges the merit of the operation to the Cavaliere: "A choice of responsibility by Berlusconi that politically forced the other center-right forces to change lines and adapt. Chapeau". For Luigi Di Maio the vote in the House is "a great sign of unity and institutional loyalty towards the country. This vote will allow us to continue to support self-employed workers, traders, artisans, professionals who are most of all suffering from the crisis linked to the pandemic. .

The owner of the Economy underlines: "It seems positive to me that a broader convergence is also achieved with the opposition forces", says Roberto Gualtieri.

And the pentastellato minister Federico D'Incà underlines: "A sign of great responsibility towards the country on the part of all political forces. A step that certifies, even on the part of the opposition, the correctness of the work carried out by the government in recent months".