Meloni calls Yolanda Díaz's criticism of her labor policy "little sensible"

The Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, described this Wednesday as “unwise” the criticism of her labor policies by the Spanish Second Vice President and Labor Minister, Yolanda Díaz, and attributed them to “internal difficulties” in the Government of Madrid.

“On Spain, the Minister of Labor speaks of precariousness. It seems to me that he knows very little about the situation because Italy has just achieved its historical record in the number of employees and stable contracts,” he told the media in Prague.. And he added: “Perhaps you do not know well the work that the Italian Government is doing but, I repeat, it is a dynamic, frankly, as you will understand, not very sensible if it is not due to internal difficulties that other governments have and use. But I don't particularly care.”.

In an intervention in the plenary session of the Congress of Deputies, the vice president said that “the hidden program” of the Vox government “what it is talking about is restricting the right to strike, collective bargaining, privatizing pensions and returning to junk contracts “. And he added that in this he coincides with that of Meloni who, according to what he said, “has left on May 1 in Italy to promote a decree to govern against the workers in Italy and return to junk contracts”.

The Italian Vice President and Foreign Minister, Antonio Tajani, described the criticism of the Spanish Second Vice President as “unacceptable judgments on the decisions of the Italian Government”.. “It is a pity that the Spanish Vice President Yolanda Díaz meddles in Italian political life issuing unacceptable judgments on the decisions of the Government,” Tajani wrote on Twitter after Díaz accused the Spanish party Vox of wanting to “return to junk contracts”, as he assures that Meloni is doing.

It is a pity that Spanish Deputy Prime Minister Yolanda Diaz is interfering in Italian political life by giving unacceptable judgments on the government's choices. Her party's electoral difficulties do not justify offenses to a European partner and ally. This is not the way to collaborate.

— Antonio Tajani (@Antonio_Tajani) May 10, 2023

According to Tajani, the “electoral difficulties” of Díaz, who is also Minister of Labor and Social Economy and leader of the Sumar platform, “do not justify the offenses against a European partner and ally. This is not the way to collaborate.”.

The Italian Prime Minister irritated the unions on her first Workers' Day in Government, by holding a Council of Ministers on a holiday and with a decree on labor matters that extends the possibility of extending temporary contracts, hitherto restricted to one year.

A week later, the unions and the Italian opposition demonstrated, united for the first time after Meloni's victory, to protest against the controversial decree-law, which also reduces the tax burden on certain salaries but only until the end of the year..