The League suspends Murelli and Dara: “They took the VAT match bonus” – La Stampa

ROMA. The League has suspended the deputies Elena Murelli and Andrea Dara for having taken the Covid bonus of 600 euros. After maintaining secrecy for days, yesterday evening the group leader at the Camera del Carroccio, Riccardo Molinari, explained in a note that the decision was shared with those directly concerned: “Even though it has not violated any law, it is inappropriate for parliamentarians to have adhered to this measure “. The third crafty to have collected the subsidy is missing, which according to the drafts of the buildings should be a former 5-star.

If there are no new admissions, the veil of mystery is destined to be completely torn off tomorrow by the number one of INPS. At noon on the eve of August 15th, in fact, Pasquale Tridico, will be audited by videoconference in the Labor commission in Montecitorio and there, as confirmed by the Institute, he will give the names of those who, with the excuse of the pandemic, have decided to round up a salary that exceeds the 12 thousand euros with the indemnity provided for VAT numbers. Then there are at least two other parliamentarians who have asked for financial support, but without collecting it.

“It is the right place in which to deal with the affair, on Friday the deputies will be able to ask all the necessary questions to definitively clarify what happened”, underlined Roberto Fico. For the Speaker of the Chamber it is “a question of opportunity, dignity and respect, as well as awareness of the role one plays. Those who have asked for and obtained the contribution for professionals and workers in difficulty should apologize and return what they received, ”he reiterated.

Andrea Dara, 41 from Mantua, is a small textile entrepreneur while Elena Murelli, 45 from Piacenza, deals with consultancy related to European funding. Both with a declared income of over 100 thousand euros. Dara defends himself by saying that he has not personally asked INPS for the bonus and that he has not noticed the credit on the company current account. The Northern League deputy made it known that it was the firm of the company’s accountant, of which he belongs with his mother, to have sent the application. And that he paid employees and suppliers with parliamentary fees, also to cover the delays in the redundancy fund.

Matteo Salvini has Tridico in his sights, the League’s strategy is to transform the hearing of the president close to the 5-star Movement into a trial. “It is incredible that the INPS leaders have not paid the workers who have been waiting for the amount due since March while they paid the money to those who were not in difficulty. In any other country the president of that institute would have been fired », Molinari accuses.

In the Carroccio the tension remains high. Today the governor of Veneto, Luca Zaia, will meet the two councilors involved and his deputy, Gianluca Forcolin, who, however, did not receive the allowance: “I blocked the request, I have the papers to prove it,” he justified. For them, farewell to re-nomination for the elections of 20 and 21 September looms on the horizon. Zaia seems inflexible. Meanwhile, in Trentino the Northern League councilor Ivano Job was suspended and in Florence Ubaldo Bocci resigned as center-right coordinator.

More than 240 declarations of renunciation of privacy have arrived that the pentastellati sent to the Movement to promote transparency, but among the hundreds of local administrators who have received the bonus check Roberto Gravina, lawyer and mayor grillino of Campobasso.

The INPS will also have to answer to the Privacy Guarantor who has opened an investigation on the method followed for the processing of the data of parliamentarians and administrators who have received the contribution and on the dissemination of the news.

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