"Bonus Gate": Tridico in the Labor Commission to talk about chicken thieves

(by Massimiliano D'Elia) On Sunday the newspaper la Repubblica announced that five deputies had requested the 600 euro bonus provided for VAT and autonomous numbers. After a few hours it became known that three were from Alloy, one of the Movement 5 Stars is one of Italy Viva. Italia Viva then denied. The bewilderment and indignation was bipartisan on the part of the entire political and institutional world, while the protest was mounting hour by hour on social networks, with the same slogan: "Now we want the names". To widen the ranks of the crafty also about two thousand local administrators including municipal councilors, councilors and mayors. Several hundred notaries spoke yesterday.

Pentastellati parliamentarians hastened to fill out the "form" sent by the political leader Vito Crimi, with whom they refuse their privacy for the "bonus" affair. But to dispel any doubts directly the Guarantor for the protection of personal data who in fact authorized INPS to make the names public. To date, the pension fund has not yet complied. The Privacy Guarantor has therefore opened a file on the method followed by the Institute and on the respect of the data processing of the beneficiaries of the Covid bonus. 

Then there is an entirely political question. As noted by the president of INPS, Pasquale Tridico was chosen by the 5 Star Movement, by Di Maio in person. At the end of September the referendum will be voted to cut the number of parliamentarians, so why not throw a lot of mud on the caste, to better direct the vote of the Italians? A "modus operandi ", A "method“Really very dangerous for our democracy if confirmed by the facts under consideration.

To support this thesis the fact that numbers and details of the "bonus" to parliamentarians and local administrators were already known in May, because the scandal is released by press only one month of the election?

In this regard, the Corriere della Sera specifies: "Towards the end of May, the INPS anti-fraud unit, led by Antonello Crudo, informs President Tridico that in the list of people who have requested the 600 euro bonus for self-employed workers, there are also 2 politicians and local administrators including the three deputies. A targeted check on them? The answer is that politicians and administrators have a particular social security framework, which comes out of the institution's databases. But for the anti-fraud unit there is no fraud. And not even a situation of incompatibility, so much so that a few days later the bonus is regularly paid to those 2000 people. Anti-fraud merely submits the question to the president. It should end there, and in a sense it ends there. Except that after two months the case explodes in the newspapers ”. 

Under accusation today is the president of INPS, considered the one who released the data outside the headquarters of the institute.

Tridico defends himself and with his closest collaborators he says: "We have nothing to hide, we do not register, we acted according to the law "

Today the president of INPS will be live streaming with the  Labor Commission to report to the deputies "on the crafty bonus". Last night the name of the grillino came out, Mark Rozzano, the others two are from the League, Elena Murelli of Piacenza and Andrea Dara of Mantua. The Northern League have already been suspended. "They have not violated any law, says the League leader in the House Richard Molinari, but it is inappropriate for parliamentarians to have adhered to this measure.

Throughout the story, the “timing” of the scandal and the fact that a cross-reference of data was made for only some categories is astonishing. Even more surprising is the “Cura Italia” decree law which does not set income limits to applicants for the bonus for VAT and self-employed. We are sure of the good faith of all the actors who participated directly or indirectly in the publicity of the scandal even if after a historical emergency such as that of CoViD-19 it would have been better not to divert public opinion on facts that are not good for the country. We have to face the worst economic crisis that history has ever had but we waste time with simple "chicken thieves".

"Bonus Gate": Tridico in the Labor Commission to talk about chicken thieves