Pd, Schlein: ‘When we are in government minimum wage and rebates on bills’

Milan, 30 April (LaPresse) – ‘We are touring factories and there is not a single entrepreneur who has not put to us as an emergency the cost of energy bills, which is the highest in Europe. It penalises from the small artisan to large industry and it is not clear why Meloni continues to defend the extra profits of the energy giants to the detriment of businesses and families, instead of following the path of other countries: unbundling the price of gas from that of energy. If they don't move we will, along with the minimum wage, when we are in government'. This was said by PD secretary Elly Schlein in an interview with the newspaper La Repubblica. ‘All the more so now that there has been a drop in industrial production for 25 months and we are already suffering the damage of the crazy trade war declared by Trump, it is necessary to revive domestic demand, therefore to increase wages,’ she added, ’we must immediately approve the minimum wage, which it is a shame the majority has stuck on a dead end track, and renew the expired national contracts for 5 million workers. Today it would be deadly to return to austerity'. On the prime minister's policies in this regard, Schlein stressed: ‘Giorgia Meloni specialises in telling a story of an Italy that does not exist, a fantasy world in which since she has been in Palazzo Chigi everything goes well and the trains arrive on time. Reality, however, belies her, revealing a frightening increase in inequality: the richest 10 per cent hold 10 times more of the national income than the poorest 10 per cent'.