The Chamber of Deputies gives the go-ahead to the government's mandate to block the minimum wage law proposed by the opposition. The votes in favor were 153, 118 against, 3 abstentions. The text goes to the Senate.
A few minutes before the vote there was a brawl. Vice President Fabio Rampelli had to suspend the session because the opposition deputies displayed signs with the words "Minimum wage denied" and reached the government benches shouting in unison "Shame!".
The government "has destroyed the minimum wage, they have emptied it and made it become something else", in a way that "offends us", said Democratic Party secretary Elly Schlein in Transatlantico . And again: «Today is a sad day, today when you crumple the opposition's minimum wage proposal with one hand and with the other you give a backhanded blow to millions of poor workers. We would like to know why Meloni is so angry with the poor. You people on the social elevator are cutting the wires so that those who are poor remain poor."
Then, recalling the signatures collected on the topic, the announcement: "We will move forward and together with the other oppositions we will decide."
(Unioneonline/D)