The government led by Giorgia Meloni has a new problem not just to solve: that on the fate of the approximately 1,500 navigators in charge of assisting the beneficiaries of the Citizenship Income in the search for a job or a training opportunity.
Their assignment expired on October 31 and now the problem arises of how to continue using these professionals at least until the end of the year.
A problem for the new executive, with the center-right that has made the battle against citizenship income a banner of its electoral campaign.
And while rumors about a possible extension circulate, rumors that also animate the political debate, the Ministry of Labor led by Marina Calderone explains in a press release that "the extension of the navigators is not technically possible".
An ad hoc norm would be needed, which at the moment would not be in the pipeline or in the study of the dicastery.
Rather "a mere reconnaissance activity between the Regions" would have started.
"But if the government has never intended to extend them - Luigi Marattin asks himself from the Terzo Polo - why did it ask in a letter if there is a need to extend the navigators and to communicate the estimated costs already?".
The deputy of Italia Viva refers to a document that he publishes on Twitter and sent by the director general of the Ministry of Labor to the regions concerned and dated at the end of October.
But the Minister of Agriculture Francesco Lollobrigida cuts short: well the Ministry of Labor, "another commitment maintained by the Meloni government, the contracts will not be extended".
Even if the problem of the fate of these workers remains, so much so that the ministry was also urged on the matter by the trade unions with a letter of October 24 asking the new government for an urgent meeting.