"Boldrini and Grasso are reducing their salaries by 30%" is the headline in La Repubblica. OK, but what salary? Are they talking of their salary as parliamentarians or about the additional chunk for having the position as President of the Lower House and the Senate? That is not explained, but it’s an important detail that the citizens have to know. The M5S is refusing the whole amount for payment because of a position: Antonio Venturino, a 5 Star representative in Sicily, has turned down 3,244.22 euro a month and an official blue car that would have been due to him as the Vice President of the Regional Assembly in Sicily. Boldrini and Grasso can refuse to accept the payment due to their position and they can halve the payment due to them as parliamentarians like the true 5 Star citizens, and they could be an example to all the parliamentarians. In the joint note issued by both presidents after their meeting, they say: "In the meeting we agreed to propose measures relating to the total sum of money paid to parliamentarians, that will be finalised once the Office of the Presidency has been set up, with the objective of making a saving of between thirty and fifty per cent of the expenditure.". There’s already one proposal and it’s very simple: 5 thousand euro gross a month instead of 11,283 euro gross, refusal of the solidarity payment and the obligation to publish every item of expenditure to be reimbursed with the provision of full documentation. The M5S citizen spokespersons in Parliament have already done this. If Boldrini and Grasso were to propose this measure, the annual saving would be about 70 million.
Yesterday Grasso said that he’s “not a fig leaf, but an oak who has already got down to work”. He can demonstrate that: let him ask all the parties and President Boldrini, to refuse to accept the reimbursement of election expenses set aside for this term of office. An action of justice in relation to the people of Italy who would feel they were finally being represented by two of the most important institutions of the Republic. The parties cannot do that, but you have been chosen as you have said that you are at a distance from the system. "Fatelo voi!“ {You do it!}, - the words shouted out by Dario Fo when he was on stage during the Tsunami Tour in front of the 100,000 people in Milan. Boldrini and Grasso, accept the responsibility that your roles oblige you to take. Ask for the halving of salaries for parliamentarians and the rejection of the reimbursement of election expenses: #FateloVoi!

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