Citizenship income, Conte: “Tajani’s party admitted that dismantling it was a mistake”

The leader of the M5S on Facebook: "Better late than never. They would do well to apologize for the choices made, for the lies told and for a defamatory campaign involving unified networks against Italians in difficulty"

ROME – “In Sicily the vice-president of the Regional Assembly of Forza Italia has presented a bill to introduce… the regional citizenship income! You read that right. Minister Tajani’s party essentially admits that it was a mistake to dismantle the RdC, a measure which according to Istat allowed almost 2 million people to escape from absolute poverty”. The leader of the M5S Giuseppe Conte wrote this on Facebook, continuing: “Better late than never. They would do well to apologize for the choices made, for the lies told and for a defamatory campaign involving unified networks against Italians in difficulty. Out of guilt seasonal workers cannot be found in the Income”, they said.

“Then we discover from the INPS that the number of seasonal workers has almost doubled between 2018 and 2022. They are all slacker sofa users: instead the Ministry of Labor writes in black and white that 258 thousand individuals in 2020, 314 thousand in 2021 and 297 thousand in 2022 they started a new employment relationship while receiving the RdC. In 2022 alone, almost half a million citizens took it to supplement indecent salaries.In truth, a serious government would have continued to work for improve income – starting from the chronic inefficiency of our active labor policies, managed mostly by the Regions, coincidentally governed en masse by the parties that make up the current government majority”.

For Conte, however, “the government has chosen the path of hatchet cuts, which still leave tens of thousands of families with minors, elderly people and people with disabilities outside the inclusion allowance The results are there for all to see: historic record of absolute poor in Italy in 2023, 5.7 million. Congratulations! Let Meloni and his ministers take serious care of those who have been left behind and want to find their way and keep theirs intact dignity. Because it is right, because it is a duty”.