The controversies over the maneuver with the government-union dispute lead to a bitter back-and-forth between Giorgia Meloni and Elly Schlein on the protection of workers’ rights. “this government defends them much more than the caviar left”, the prime minister’s thrust. The Democratic secretary replies harshly: “I’ve never eaten caviar, but I also can’t tolerate workers being purged with castor oil.” On the one hand a reference to the ‘gauche caviar’, on the other to the purges administered by the fascists in the twenty years. It is the second round of a clash that began 24 hours earlier with the Prime Minister’s message, read on ‘a sheep’s day’, in which she told how, “having no particular trade union rights”, she was at work in “Budapest for the Council European” despite feeling ill. “Stop playing the victim” and “delegitimizing” the unions, Schlein had already attacked. The leader of the Democratic Party really doesn’t like being branded as “the left with caviar” and rebukes Meloni on the minimum wage “which he denied to 3 and a half million workers who can no longer make it and can’t make ends meet even if they work.”
From the Chamber she is supported by the dem group leader in the labor commission, Arturo Scotto: “I don’t know what caviar you’re talking about, maybe the one you evidently eat together with your multi-billionaire friend Elon Musk that the union doesn’t even let him enter its factories.” A concept soon relaunched also by the left-green alliance. “I fear that the prime minister has been struck by the most exclusive international salons, which go far beyond champagne and caviar: she defends the super billionaires , just read the economic maneuver against the poor and young people”, attacks the green Angelo Bonelli. “I prefer olive pâté – reveals the group leader Luana Zanella – but caviar is better than having the multi-billionaire post-humanist Musk as a snack companion.” The debate on food preferences soon turns into teasing, with Nicola Fratoianni who recommends to the head of government “the products of farmers, for example those from Umbria”.
Carlo Calenda (handle)
Carlo Calenda he intervenes scathingly, with blows to the right and left: “the prime minister and the leader of the main opposition party exchange jokes about the ‘caviar left’. Or do we begin to seriously address the issue of the recession which will come with numbers and projects – warns – or if we continue with jokes and controversies it will end badly”. No comment from the 5 Star movement which – as a parliamentarian explains – does not feel involved as it is “not left-wing”, nor even “caviar-loving”, but rather “progressive” – so, while the dispute mounts, Giuseppe Conte he attacks the government on something completely different: the “twenty months of decline in industrial production”. Fueling the controversy over workers comes Maurizio Landini who accuses Meloni of “bullying”: the joke about trade union rights, “put in these terms is an attack on those who see them questioned every day”.
Maurizio Gasparri (Handle)
The secretary of the CGIL, confirming the meeting with the prime minister on the maneuver for Monday morning, which was postponed due to the prime minister’s indisposition, announces that he would like to bring her a book as a gift: ‘the man in revolt’ by Albert Camus. The reaction from the centre-right is not long in coming: “When Landini comes to his senses, he will realize the dangerous and reckless behavior he is carrying out in these hours”, he points the finger Maurizio Gasparri (FI). “After years of silence under left-wing governments, the CGIL is back. Landini, where did you end up in those years?”, adds FdI on its social networks. While the League continues to attack the reference to the “social revolt” made by the leader of the CGIL, with the deputy secretary of the party Andrea Crippa who asks, provocatively, whether “there is any prosecutor in Italy ready to examine these statements to analyze whether there are grounds for incitement to violence”.
Maurizio Landini, secretary of the CGIL (Handle)
