A break with the past: this is the political signal launched by Premier Silvio Berlusconi at the Third Council of Ministers meeting, symbolically, in the city of Naples. Three of the measures adopted: the
regulatory package on migration and public safety, decrease the amount of tax, refuse emergency in Campania. So Silvio Berlusconi sends a clear message to the country and concrete: the state is back . A definite change, then, in style, approach and how to address the public. A complete reversal of that modus operandi that the political class of the government Prodi had accustomed us, characterized by intestinal controversy, threats mastelliane, push and pull, often mediated through plenary meetings - the famous conclave - put in place whenever you feel a government crisis too many times announced.
The Prodi government takes office May 17, 2006. On June 2, all the national newspapers reported the warning of Padoa-Schioppa on the rigor of the expenditure. Triggered immediately increases of additional personal income tax and IRAP for the six regions which have broken through the parameters of health spending and is issued a directive to curb releases of the ministries. But meanwhile, they are soaring in number thanks to unpack, and with them, the caste politics. One month later (July 4, 2006) is resolved the first sheet on liberalization and taxation, signed by Pierluigi Bersani and Vincenzo Visco. Then (July 29, 2006), Parliament enacts the pardon by the Italians tried a capital mistake. Meanwhile, Economy Minister shall establish a budget of 30 billion, instead of cutting spending, increases the tax burden to finance and implement the redistribution of taxes. In short, since the first moves the Prodi government launches signals failure, incoherence, and instability within a few months quickly loses developing consensus among its voters, a manifest cynicism toward politicians. Anti-politics was born.
The Berlusconi government takes office on 8 May 2008 a victory net in the House and Senate, this weakness of the Prodi government. The outcome of elections is the first positive indicator of change. Reduce to 12 ministries, appoints the secretaries (37), but not vice ministers. 13 days after meets in Naples with washing the most urgent problems of the country. Together with measures on security and immigration, launches a package of tax rebates (ICI and tax cut on overtime payroll) that is covered with a cut of € 4 billion to costs. Giulio Tremonti announced an advance of the maneuver and a plan for fiscal sustainability 30 billion in 3 years. Over waste in Naples and operates a decree entrusting the supervision of armed forces to the landfill and directed by Guido Bertolaso \u200b\u200bthe solution of the problem. The first decisions of the government are consistent with the program submitted to the campaign and also meet the favor of the opposition. You breathe a new atmosphere of trust. The onset, therefore, could not be better, the most desirable and desired, in a time when, now more than ever there is a need to receive immediate responses from the political class and leadership to the solution of concrete problems quotas. A new leadership that can raise a country now adrift, with choices and bold action that until now, only the great men, those great statesmen of the past, had proven to be able to undertake.
Cristina Sanna
