Conte attacks “infected capitalism”, Marcegaglia: “Respect”. The fight

Conte attacks “infected capitalism”, Marcegaglia: “Respect”. The fight

“Hearing a political leader talk about infected capitalism makes me crazy, we are serious people and we need respect“. Emma said it MarcegagliaB7 Chair, replying to Giuseppe Conte from the stage of the Confindustria Young Entrepreneurs conference in Rapallo (Genoa) who spoke to the same audience shortly before. Marcegaglia also responded to the accusation that young entrepreneurs join a war economy: “Young people – he underlined – say that we must defend Ukraine, it means being on the side of those who suffer and feel bad against those who use violence”.

Conte’s clarification

“I know Emma Marcegaglia well and I think she misunderstood my speech. In speaking of infected capitalism I was referring to that unhealthy system, which also emerges from judicial investigations, in which the entrepreneur seeks a privileged relationship with the politician of the moment and then finances his electoral campaign. This represents an infected management of the relationship between politics and economics“. Thus the leader of the M5s Giuseppe Conte, on the sidelines of an electoral rally in Piazza Vittorio Emanuele in Monreale (Palermo).

“The privilege granted to a single entrepreneur puts everyone else in difficulty, this is an unfair practice – continues Conte – In the same way the funding that a politician obtains in this way disadvantages all the other political forces that want to compete on equal terms: I believe that Marcegaglia can absolutely agree on this aspect, as do the vast majority of entrepreneurs”.

“I am the one who restarted the country in the midst of the pandemic, recovering 13% of GDP in three years and obtaining 200 million to relaunch the competitiveness of the entire production system and not just the entrepreneurs with whom I had privileged relationships: the Pnrr – he added – it was aimed precisely at involving all entrepreneurs in this great national project, not just those looking for privileged lanes in relations with political exponentsthe”.

Confindustria, Orsini: “Conte’s words? Election campaign”

“Lhe words of the M5s leader that triggered a clash with industrialists today at the Young Entrepreneurs conference are “Electoral campaign”. The president of Confindustria, Emanuele Orsini, thus dismisses the topic. So can they be justified? “Halfway.” The reference, in the comparison with Conte, is also to the Genoa investigation: “I won’t go into the merits of what the prosecutor’s office is doing, everyone must do their own job. However, from a certain point of view, I don’t like hearing today , here, that every grass is a bundle, we are the entrepreneurs and we represent the country, we are the ones who make the country’s GDP, who support the country”, remarks the leader of the industrialists.