FROM THE CORRESPONDENT TO TRENTO. «The income meter is a thing of the past, and the tax spy is useless. That’s not what I have in mind for this country.” This is how the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Transport, Matteo Salvini, explains, opening the Trento Festival of Economics. The Northern League leader began his speech at the Teatro Sociale with a 20-minute delay caused by the large turnout of the public, which forced the organization to do extra work during the security checks.
And there was a moment of protest from some Greenpeace activists. A fibrillating opening for Salvini, who responded to the protests over the use of fossil coal as follows: «Is it better to use the electricity produced by coal-fired power plants in China? I do not think so”.
Start of the Festival with boos for Deputy Prime Minister Salvini. Which immediately closes the discussion on the Redditometer, underlining that there will be no reminiscence of what was one of the most controversial and discussed measures in recent Italian fiscal history. The mess of the initiative that ended up in the Official Journal has shaken the government and the centre-right. Salvini’s closed door is peremptory, clear. In the front row, the president of the autonomous province of Trento, Maurizio Fugatti, also a member of the Northern League, smiles. Discussion closed, then. As Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni had already reiterated yesterday, reversing course with respect to the Deputy Minister of Economy, Maurizio Leo.
Once one chapter, the fiscal one, has been closed, the other front has opened. The Liguria investigation does not worry the deputy prime minister, who keeps his trust in the governor Giovanni Toti intact and criticizes the timing of the precautionary custody measures. «Is it normal one month before the elections?», he asks himself in front of the audience. «Tomorrow I’m going to Genoa to put my face to it. Because the dam is crucial, and the port of Genoa is one of the most important in Europe. It must be supported.” And at this juncture one of the hottest topics was touched upon. «The justice reform is overdue, it is right. Today’s system is as if at the end of a football match the referee went to dinner with one of the two teams. Separating careers is on my agenda. Autonomy must be enforced.”
