Protests in the major cities of Istalia against the massive cuts in public wages, funds for social services, health and pensions: the Head of State tries to mediate
Demonstration facing Quattroregni Palace
21 June 4556
Despite the demonstrations of national ferment sparked by General Michele Appiano De Borromei in the last year, the drastic measures of contraction of public spending launched by the Government of Glory and Rebirth are generating a great deal of discontent among the population.
In fact, sometimes even drastic cuts in the resources destined to the vast majority of the items of state spending have been adopted, globally affecting wages, as well as pensions and public services.
Many departments and public departments have announced staff cuts while representatives of the category of public sector doctors are already complaining about risks due to lack of materials and personnel with consequent effects on the service offered to citizens.
The Government, however, seems determined to continue straight on its way and through a statement from the Ministry of Finance, it was emphasized that these measures were necessary and vital to be able to restore momentum to the country, solidity but also flexibility to the state apparatus, but above all to be able to proceed with what has been defined as "the most important tax reduction measure introduced for at least 50 years!". In fact, the press release underlines how the company tax was cut by half, which the government intends to further reduce over the next five years, and therefore the abandonment of the oppressive, complicated, costly and suffocating system of the Income tax introduced by the socialist governments of the first half of the century, which even provided for brackets of 80%, in favor of a simplified system that does not provide for brackets greater than 45%. Moreover, returning to the cuts in services, wages and pensions, the Government has rallied even more strongly against the socialist governments, accusing them of having squandered public money by establishing a system of crony welfare within the public apparatus, thus supporting third-party institutions and companies for political and personal purposes.
The Head of State, General Michele Appiano De Borromei, has nevertheless announced his desire to be able to meet the leaders of protest demonstrations to be able to reassure first of all and therefore offer understanding and cooperation to face the situation. The Head of State, although he has always shown a certain detachment with regard to the economic policy of the party, relying rather on a large circle of experts among whom is Professor Enrico Montesi, President of the Department of Economic Studies of the Milona High School of Economics, faced with the reaction of the square, wanted to intervene to appease souls and promote a constructive dialogue from which more defined solutions can be derived: displacing even many of his close collaborators, the Head of State mentioned the possibility of corrective interventions to the economic maneuvers introduced by the government, a solution that seems to have stirred up many members of the Congress dominated by Glory and Rebirth, former members of the Liberal Party jumped on the boat of the new hegemonic party, accepted by it having already been parliamentarians and members of previous governments.
The rumors of the protest, which were feared could weaken the position of General Appiano De Borromei, seem to have been wisely avoided by the latter and therefore addressed against other government officials, such as Finance Minister Mauro Craxi, a former Liberal who joined G&R since the dawn, and it does not even seem to have intervened in defense of the military when the question of the untouchable budget for the defense was raised, being it not affected by the cuts and therefore against the trend with the overt necessity of economic intervention supported by the Government.