the Interior Secretariat replies to RF
“The Director of the Department, having consulted the Managers concerned, decides on the mobility of personnel in the Department, with an assignment deed which he informs the General Management of the Public Function” (Law 188/2011). To respond to Repubblica Futura, it could be said that the mobility of personnel in the Department was already foreseen, as a principle, in Law 188/2011 by the then Secretary of the Interior Valeria Ciavatta (from AP, who later merged into RF). It could be said that all the interventions on the Public Administration that RF belittles and derides today have their roots in the principles contained in the 2011 Law: the annual evaluation of managers, greater responsibility and autonomy of managers, the transfer of powers from the Congress of State to the ‘Administration, the carrying out of public competitions etc. Many things could be said on the merits. The point is that RF is not interested in entering into the merits but rather ridiculing the interventions carried out by the current Secretariat of State for Internal Affairs. Interventions that concretize those that have remained on paper for 11 years and which are now translated into reality and not lowered from above as one would like to believe, but are the result of extensive in-depth analysis with the trade unions. I on the decree relating to the mobility of personnel in the Enlarged Public Sector (n.86 / 2022), for example, began last February, and saw a great deal of synthesis by procedure that found a balance between the need for greater flexibility of the ” Administration and, on the other hand, procedural guarantees for employees. It is not clear on what basis, therefore, RF alarms the population by making them believe that there have not been comparisons. Repubblica Futura, obviously annoyed by the fact that today we have passed from words to deeds, stuffs one press release after another with distorted information and all kinds of allegations, even going so far as to speak of “illegitimacy in the enactment of the decree”. But during work in the Council Chamber, last Tuesday, all these grievances were not seen in the shadow. Despite having in hand the useful tools to verify and report any illegitimacy (which in any case do not exist), RF did not say a word, presenting only a few abrogative amendments which, on balance, went exactly in the opposite direction to that declared at the microphone. A very different approach from that of their opposition colleagues who, at least, have tried to enter into the merits, have brought their perplexities and some contributions. The continuous use of nicknames and mockery, the diametrically opposite attitude between that brought to the Chamber and what emerges, the extent of how much the criticisms advanced by RF legitimize a different view. Rather, they arise from a feeling of frustration in seeing a PA that changes, which step by step moves away from the influence of parties, which takes away powers from the Secretaries of State, and which does so on the basis of those principles that RF, in a decade, left alone on paper and brandished as a slogan in election campaigns.