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The Council of Ministers on Friday 16 February was a “Day after” one. The President of the Council, myself and other ministers are just back from a few days in India. We came back to Italy on Thursday and we had our meeting on Friday morning.
Thus it was an ordinary administration Council of Ministers with a few nominations, a few cancellations and a few routine measures.
There was one important measure to be decided on but partly at my request, it was postponed. I’m talking of the reform of the judicial arrangements by the former Minister Castelli that the Centre Left had promised to repeal once in government. We are still there discussing it. I believe that we should repeal it.
We will discuss it next week and I will make my voice heard, because this new reform of Minister Mastella does not convince me. We shouldn’t put into effect a law that we have contested and that we can change!
We also postponed another measure that I want to talk about. The Finance Law allows for the abolition of consultants and the ceiling for the salaries of the State Directors who were getting enormous salaries. And we have done well. But yesterday it occurred to someone to modify the Finance law to bring back consultants and to increase the top limit for the salaries of the Directors. I couldn’t believe it. I must say that there was general negative feeling because the Finance law needs two modifications to make it more presentable that is the reform of the health “tickets” and the intervention on minimum pensions.
We decided, just about unanimously, to postpone the discussion of these topics too. We must first take measures to help the weakest and then if there are still resources, to help others.
As I said, instead we took decisions of ordinary administration, and because of this the newspapers will give you an account.
What I have told you is however different information, behind the scenes. “