In the Montecitorio Chamber yesterday the armored text received confirmation of the confidence requested by the government. Then the night session with the examination of the agenda. The Assembly met again this morning for the explanations of vote, with the green light received with 216 yes votes
The Chamber gives the green light to the budget for 2026 with 216 yes votes. The votes against were 126, with 3 abstentions. This is Parliament’s definitive approval of the budget law. Yesterday evening the armored text had received confirmation of the trust requested by the government. The votes in favor were 219, the votes against were 125. Immediately afterwards the voting on the estimates began and, following this, the examination of the agendas, over 200. The session continued into the night and lasted until approximately 6 this morning. In today’s voting declarations, Democratic Party secretary Elly Schlein was very critical: “A maneuver that does not address the primary concerns of Italians is wrong, it is an austerity maneuver, which envisages zero growth.” Present on the government benches were, among others, the ministers Giancarlo Giorgetti, Antonio Tajani, Carlo Nordio, Luca Ciriani and the deputy minister Maurizio Leo (ALL THE MEASURES PLANNED – QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON THE MANEUVER).
Meloni: “Serious and responsible maneuver with limited resources”
After the green light, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni wrote on social media: “Parliament has approved the 2026 Budget Law. It is a serious and responsible manoeuvre, built in a complex context, which concentrates the limited resources available on some fundamental priorities: families, work, businesses and healthcare. We continue along the path of reducing the IRPEF for the middle class, in supporting the birth rate and employment, in strengthening public healthcare and in supporting those who invest, produce and create employment. We have worked to make structural measures already initiated and to strengthen those that really impact the daily lives of Italians, keeping faith with the commitments undertaken. Another step forward to give certainty to the Nation and continue to build a more solid, competitive and capable of looking to the future with confidence”.
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Giorgetti: “We increased wages, everyone asked us for it”
The Minister of Economy Giancarlo Giorgetti instead said: “The fundamental point of this maneuver is something that has been talked about for a long time but which has been talked about very little in the Chamber: in fact we have exempted the contractual increases from taxation, as well as having closed all the public contracts that have been stagnant for years; this means concrete increases in the wages and salaries of employees. Something that both the unions and the employers asked of us. We did it, I’m sorry that very little is said about it. Tax on the I believe that 5% contractual increases and 1% productivity wages are a very important signal.”
Giorgetti: “Stop increasing the retirement age as early as 2027 if possible”
The owner of the MEF then added that “here they say about pensions that we have extended the retirement age, in reality the government’s intervention has reduced the increase in the retirement age by two months in 2027 because it would automatically have increased by three months. Naturally during 2026 if things continue to go well in the public accounts as up to now we will also try to reduce that extra month which would start from 2027”.
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Giorgetti: “We evaluate weapons spending, without touching social spending”
“On spending on weapons, we have not removed a euro in this budget law from social spending to allocate it to spending on weapons”, said the Minister of Economy Giancarlo Giorgetti speaking in the Chamber. “The debate on defense spending will take place from next spring when and if we emerge from the infringement procedure”, he added, specifying that Italy must first “go below 3%: it is by no means a given that this will happen, but it is naturally my hope”. At that point, explained Giorgetti, “we will evaluate whether to ask for an exemption for the increase in defense spending so as not to affect in any way the expenses allocated to health, school and education”.
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The unresolved issues
Many of the issues that have characterized the entire parliamentary examination appear not to be resolved and are destined to spill over into the coming months. Starting from that of pensions which remains an open chapter, especially for the League. Which puts in black and white on an agenda the request to sterilize the increase in the retirement age which starts in 2027. “The League asks to reduce it further, we will see during 2026”, says the minister Giancarlo Giorgetti. Moreover, adds the head of the Treasury, having foreseen in the maneuver a gradual step was “covered with over a billion”. The Northern League also asks, via agenda, to evaluate a return to the incremental flat tax and that for young people under 30 and under 35. As far as Forza Italia is concerned, the objective remains support for the middle classes. Next year, underlines the leader Antonio Tajani, we want to “continue the reduction of the tax burden: we must broaden the Irpef base to at least 60 thousand and continue to lower the tax burden and try to have higher salaries”. An objective, the first, on which the Mef is not satisfied.
