"The point is: what does the government respond to the 500,000 people who took to the streets on Friday?"

Thus the secretary of the CGIL Maurizio Landini , regarding the general strike of the day before yesterday, which saw widespread participation throughout Italy, including Sardinia .

"There must be an answer," said the leader of the largest Italian union on the sidelines of the Avs assembly in Chianciano, and "as far as we are concerned, we need to increase healthcare spending and we need to act on the tax system to get the resources to make these investments."

"We are explicitly asking the government to reconvene a table on the budget law, just as we are asking entrepreneurs to open negotiations on contract renewals," Landini continued, because, he explained, "we cannot undo what happened on Friday and that 500,000 people asked to be heard."

If this does not happen - concluded the CGIL secretary - "we will evaluate how to continue the protest starting on Monday".

(Online Union)