Government and opposition propaganda on rising prices in the run-up to the election

The parties are supporting the moratorium launched by Il Foglio. Centinaio (Lega), Cattaneo (FI) and Filini (FdI) are also open to the PD’s proposals, but it is the government that could step in to prevent the country from “going into the elections empty-handed” with regard to this technology, as Anna Ascani, the Democratic Party’s Deputy Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, puts it. She had already tabled a bill on the subject months ago, proposing a role for AGCOM in the removal of videos.

It is not so much, or solely, economic logic that has guided the government’s decision. On a political level, the messaging is already geared towards the election campaign: “Whilst others talk about wealth taxes, we are scrapping a tax on property”