"After unlocking construction sites, the government with the Minister of Infrastructure Matteo Salvini returns to overturn the Code of public contracts".
This is what
the confederal secretary of the CGIL, Giuseppe Massafra, affirms.
According to the union, "the new text is a real leap backwards, a counter-reform that eliminates the qualifying aspects in the procurement procedures inspired by the principles of transparency, non-discretion, correctness and free competition between companies".
The risk, observes Massafra, is that "wide passages open to the mafia and corruption".
For the confederal secretary of the CGIL, "the substance of the public tender is effectively cancelled, which in order to be such must have public evidence as its central element, consisting of the call for tenders, its advertising and the effective participation of companies in the public tenders".
Furthermore, adds Massafra, "there is the possibility of proceeding with the so-called cascade subcontracting without any limits. In this way, the business system is weakened through entirely downward competition whose central element is not the quality of the work, but the reduction of costs, above all those of labour, thereby facilitating the proliferation of undeclared work and the presence of companies responding to organized crime".
The new Procurement Code, he reiterates, "
represents a real leap backwards
, especially in a phase of massive investments that will involve the procurement sector with public resources made available by the Pnrr and by EU funds. This is why our battle will continue", starting from the demonstration already proclaimed for Saturday 1 April by Fillea-Cgil and Feneal-Uil.
"We will fight against a new Code that risks worsening working conditions and workers' rights and to defend the achievements made such as - concludes Massafra - the obligation of social clauses in defense of employment continuity, the non-rebasability of labor costs, of the durc of adequacy of the workforce, of equal treatment and the same contract for contracted and subcontracted workers".
The League against Busia
The League attacks Giuseppe Busia, president of the National Anti-Corruption Authority, after his critical words on the Procurement Code: "Serious, unspeakable and uninformed statements by President Busia on the Salvini Code", says Stefano Locatelli
,
head Local Bodies of the League.
"If he talks like this about thousands of mayors and thinks they are all corrupt - he adds -, he can no longer stay in that role. Busia has control duties, instead he certifies that he is biased, not neutral and therefore not credible".
"The League has full faith in local administrators, unlike the president of Anac who obviously considers them corrupt and corruptible. Busia, before shooting zero on the mayors and on the Salvini Code, should think about what future he wants for Italy. We want efficiency and de-bureaucratisation for a fast country, there is no doubt".
This was declared by the deputies of the League in the Environment Committee Gianpiero Zinzi, Alessandro Benvenuto, Gianangelo Bof, Elisa Montemagni and Graziano Pizzimenti.
"Those who point the finger a priori at Italian mayors cannot fill the role of president of the Anac. The statements of Giuseppe Busia who accuse practically thousands of first citizens of corruption are serious, unfounded and inaccurate. Unacceptable. He has the role of controller , not as an accuser. Take a step back and apologize to our mayors who will, instead, be able to entrust public works with transparency for the good of their communities. With the Salvini code, work is given a free hand with faster procurement and greater autonomy to local authorities, certainly not at random construction sites for 'personal relationships'".
Thus the senator of the League,
Gianluca Cantalamessa
who is also group leader of his party in the Industry commission of Palazzo Madama.