Parties are pressing the government to intervene to stop the out-of-control increases affecting fuel, energy and food.
"I believe that Minister Cingolani is right and that he used the right word: the increases (in fuel prices, ed) are a scam, because they are so huge that they have no logical and economic sense and with respect to these increases the government must to intervene exactly as one intervenes in the face of a scam, therefore with a straight leg. No doubt ", said the secretary of the Democratic Party,
Enrico Letta,
leaving the programmatic conference of Green Europe, underway in Rome.
The intervention on expensive fuel cannot be postponed.
Forza Italia has proposed a quick and effective solution to the government: the reduction of excise duties envisaged by the 2008 Budget, with a cut of 20 cents per liter.
Concrete support so that the country does not become paralyzed ", Forza Italia deputy Andrea Mandelli,
vice president of the Chamber
, writes on Twitter .
"Italy pays for this crisis more than other nations due to strategic errors caused by governments in the last ten years. We need to reduce VAT and excise duties on fuels, hit those who speculate on expensive energy, support families and businesses that pay very high bills", he declares the group leader of the Brothers of Italy in the Chamber,
Francesco Lollobrigida
According to the Minister of Agricultural Policies,
Stefano Patuanelli
, who spoke to 'Il caffè della Domenica' on Radio 24, the assaults on supermarkets are unmotivated.
"Indeed - he said - there are raw materials that we procure from some countries in conflict or very close to the conflict and which have made rather questionable commercial choices such as Hungary and yet we also have a productive force that allows us to say that there will be no problems in the supermarkets, and we must also give a message of hope and tranquility to the citizens because at this moment there is no reason to attack the supermarket shelves ".