Ex Ilva, inadmissible amendments Italy Viva for shield. Patuanelli: "Mittal is plane A, B, C and D". Hearing on withdrawal in May

On the day the Finance committee of the Chamber defuses the amendments to the tax decree of Italy Viva is Forza Italia to reintroduce it criminal shield for theex Ilva, the government reiterates that convincing ArcelorMittal to remain in Italy is the "Plan A, B, C and D" and the premier Giuseppe Conte announces that he slides the cabinet on the ‘Cantiere Taranto’. The meeting at Palazzo Chigi in which the ministers were invited by the President of the Council to propose ideas to support and reconvert the Ionian capital, dealing with ArcelorMittal's flight, will be held on next week and not Thursday, as scheduled. A "Deferral", explains Conte, due to the "Institutional commitments" of some ministers and the prime minister himself.

"Given the importance, because I have urged all ministers to collect all the projects" on the former Ilva "I willingly agreed because it is not a question of launching and defining the Taranto site in two days, but it is a construction site that opens and if we postpone the Council of Ministers for a few days nothing changes at all ", he explained, stressing that "we are working intensely these days and in these hours to make all the chapters of the Taranto dossier sustainable". And when asked if the government risks falling on the Ilva, he replies: "But what does he say … Come on … on this challenge the government risks falling? Are we joking? "

Thus the government remains at work waiting for a new face-to-face with the Mittals, when almost a week has now passed since "48 hours" for a solution that Conte had talked about. The point is made by the minister Stefano Patuanelli, all focused on legal battle that looms on the horizon on the day the Court of Milan set the first hearing for the summons presented by the Franco-Indians for the 6 May 2020: "I believe there is evidence. ArcelorMittal did not comply with the presented business plan. It is clear that compliance with the business plan is a contractual element ”. While on the subject of the penal shield, he points out, there are different positions.

But in any case the minister says: "It does not seem to me that there has been a change to the rules that makes the industrial plan impossible", and therefore justify the right of withdrawal. "This is an objective fact", summarizes. "But we are interested in solving a problem, which is a country problem, it is a problem of the country system." And "it is unthinkable that from one day to another a company" makes a decision like this. "He evidently decided to do this before November 2, because today we are told that i parks are empty and it takes a lot of time and planning to do it, "he continues. He then adds: "We must resolve the question of production continuity. I am interested in solving the problem, then on the way we will see. For us il Plan A, B, C or D, it is always Mittal that must be called by Country system, with an appeal to the responsibility of all productive forces but also of the productive systems ". And on the position of the M5S for a post-industrial reconversion in Taranto, Patuanelli says: "We can make the controversies we want about who said this. On happy degrowth, mussels, skates… I certainly never talked about this. "

In the political discussion, however, he continues to hold the penal shield. Renziani and Fi's initiative stopped because the amendments were declared unacceptable, at least the appearance remains compactcontrary orientation to the rule by the M5s. But the elected officials boil: "We do the battle on the shield – it is the concept – But the government does not fall on this". It was precisely the premier Conte who put the possibility of re-introducing immunity to facilitate an agreement with the French-Indian group several times on the negotiating table with ArcelorMittal.

It is in the document approved by pentastellat senators, approved with solos 5 against in the assembly on Tuesday evening, it is specified that if he returns to the agenda he will speak about it in assembly, while a dry "no" is said to confidence on the provision. In the same text it is given full mandate to the minister, Patuanelli, who on Wednesday will meet the M5s deputies, on the former Ilva e file full support to the President of the Council. During the meeting there was a heated speech by the former minister Barbara Lezzi, which substantially reiterated its no to the criminal shield for the multinational company after having expressed it clearly during the meeting between the Tarantine elect and the premier.

Still today a Radio24 the political leader M5s Luigi Di Maio reiterated that the issue of the farewell announced by the multinational steel company is of a completely different kind: with ArcelorMittal, says Di Maio, “we have signed a contract and we ask that this contract be respected ". "If they have difficulty with the number of tons to be produced – he continues – we sit at a table and find a solution together, but the unilateral solution we can't afford to leave ". The political leader of the M5s has therefore announced that "the State will hold the act with which they have started the exit from Italy".

The appeal urgency, however, after the announcement of the past few days, it has not yet been challenged. Sources close to dossier let them know that the deposit should take place by Friday. Instead, the process of the court summons by the company proceeds, which caused the Milan judges to prevent the cards yesterday. The case was assigned to section A specialized in business matters and chaired by Claudio Marangoni and the first hearing has been set at 6 May 2020. Hence the need expressed by Di Maio to respond immediately, through judicial documents: "In a few days there will be the first answer, then there will be a long litigation but meanwhile the goal is to make Arcelor sit down at the table and withdraw the procedure ”. On Tuesday the company announced to the workers (and not to the unions) the cronoprogramma to turn off theblast furnace 2, ending on December 14th.

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