It’s a question of “respect”. Roles and functions. Because there must be no “field invasions”. The government, after days of controversy, thus explains the decision to curb the control powers of the Court of Auditors on the Pnrr. Powers that will be reduced because the accounting magistrates, if an amendment filed in the committee at Montecitorio passes, will no longer be able to operate the “concomitant control”, i.e. during construction, on the projects of the Plan.
An action that could also have been requested by Parliament, which now sees its prerogatives “weakened”., with an outcry from the opposition, who asked for the intervention of the Speaker of the Chamber to stop a “scandalous” operation which “severely damages the balance of powers”. We will have to wait a few hours for the outcome of the appeal on the admissibility of the government amendment (which does not intervene within the perimeter of the public administration but on the powers of a judicial body) to the PA decree, and comes after Sergio Mattarella’s call to the presidents of the Chambers precisely to avoid increasing the decree-laws by uploading them to Parliament with irrelevant changes.
“They make fun of the President of the Republic”, sinks from +Europa Riccardo Magi, while all iThe Pd speaks of an “unacceptable” gesture and asks the government to withdraw the amendment. Avs bluntly defines it as “filth”, the 5S see it as yet another attack on “transparency and legality” to which Giuseppe Conte announces an opposition “with all our strength”, and the Third Pole accuses the executive of being ” without shame” and to show that he does not want “to be disturbed”. The proposal of the executive, which in case will be submitted to the vote on June 1st it also provides for a one-year extension of the “shield” for tax damages. Another question also raised by the Court, on which the executive has chosen to move “in line with the previous governments, I don’t understand the controversies”, defends Minister Raffaele Fitto. For him, today was supposed to be the day of the report on the Pnrr, the first of the center-right government, with which to photograph the state of the art but also to outline the guiding criteria for requests to change the Plan in Brussels. But the open conflict with the Court has inevitably occupied the debate so much so that tomorrow there will be a meeting between the accounting magistrates and the government at Palazzo Chigi to clarify the situation (in the afternoon they will see Fitto together with the undersecretaries Giovanbattista Fazzolari and Alfredo Mantovano).
The concomitant control, Fitto stressed, has not been implemented “for 12 years, there has not been a single intervention, I take the liberty of emphasizing the timing”. While now, the data that look at the government, out of “47 resolutions” of the college “44” have been on the Pnrr, without considering that the Draghi government has entrusted the Court with a “subsequent check” on the funds of the Pnrr. Items that will likely be brought to the table. In the morning, however, the warning from the governor of the Bank of Italy had also arrived, Ignatius Visco, which stressed in its latest annual report that “there is no time to lose”. Do “well, quickly but not in a hurry,” the executive mantra summed up by Fitto, who in any case brought together the control room and illustrated the general lines of the document, over 160 pages, in the press conference, in which the executive confirms the intention to ask a review of the Pnrr by 31 August, astarting, however, as early as mid-June the interlocutions with the offices of the commission. “This is an extremely delicate job that the government is carrying out with the utmost attention and with great responsibility”, wrote Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in the introduction, reiterating that the intention is to “fully implement” the Plan and to “ground” all resources. But it is inevitable, writes the government in the report, to review the intermediate steps and possibly replace the projects that have proved unfeasible by June 2026. Because the war in Ukraine has completely changed the picture, the price increases or the lack of raw materials have slowed down construction sites and the system still has points of “weakness” especially in the design phase. The review process, however the government assures, will be carried out with a “fruitful parliamentary discussion, with the aim of guaranteeing maximum transparency in the reporting of the results achieved”.
“On the fourth installment it is right to ask the question. But no country has yet asked for the fourth installment”. The minister said on the fourth installment “We will make a careful evaluation. There are objectives that can be modified. There are realities on which to intervene. On the nursery schools we will bypass June 30, modifying the intermediate objective, but we will achieve the objective” he said Fitto.
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“I appreciate the sense of responsibility of Minister Fitto who is working so that the financed works can be inaugurated and the deadline is inexorable: July 2026. It is better to give up some unrealizable work than to say ‘we have not been able to spend'”. As the Minister for Civil Protection, Nello Musumeci, uI get off Palazzo Chigi after the control room convened on the Pnrr. When asked by reporters about when the list with the changes to the works will be presented, the minister limited himself to saying: “Ask Minister Fitto. I risk giving the wrong news”.
Source: Ansa
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