Rags fly in the House over the minimum wage. The Montecitorio Chamber rejected with 149 votes against, 111 in favor and 3 abstentions the amendment which aimed to restore the original text of the opposition's bill, replaced with a delegation to the Government .
Thus the last attempt to return to the text on the minimum wage fails and the opposition leaders, one by one, announce that they will withdraw their signatures from the bill.
Giuseppe Conte's gesture was theatrical, tearing up the text of which he was the first signatory : «You will not carry out this treacherous gesture - his words - in my name and in the name of the M5s. For this reason I am withdrawing my signature from this measure because you are making waste of the legal minimum wage. This battle has been slowed down, but we will win it because the country is with us."
Then the frontal attack on Giorgia Meloni: «After various dances, various theatrics and postponements, expedients of various kinds and stratagems of various kinds , President Meloni threw away the mask, he voted no to the legal minimum wage . He said no to the undignified conditions in which three million workers find themselves. With the same arrogance with which you stop a train to let a minister off, you have stopped the hope of all these workers who are underpaid."
Elly Schlein: «I communicate my desire to remove my signature from this bill. This is no longer the opposition's minimum wage proposal because the majority has emptied the proposal of all meaning with its usual arrogance . Not in our name are you betraying the workers' expectations. You are stabbing exploited people in the back - she said to the majority - because you don't have the courage to look them in the eye while you bury a fair proposal for Italy."
Nicola Fratoianni, Avs: «I withdraw my signature from this bill, I do not intend and we do not intend to put our names and faces on an indecent act of political and institutional piracy . Transforming a parliamentary initiative text from the opposition into a government enabling law is a slap in the face to Parliament."
The secretary of +Europa, Riccardo Magi: « The majority's amendment to the law on the minimum wage not only distorts its meaning, but by transforming it into a delegated law, it effectively hands over the entire issue to the Ministry of Labour ».
(Unioneonline/L)