Former Cisl leader bar in the government team. Attacks from PD and M5S: « Fidelity Award »

In the government he will enter as independent, but his appointment was proposed directly by the Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, « because we want to continue to strengthen the employment in the South which was the locomotive of Italy, it grew more than the national average ». As Luigi Sbarra, a few months ago former secretary general of the CISL, since yesterday is the new Undersecretary for the Prime Minister with the delegation for the policies for the South. The delegation so far had been maintained by the premier after the then minister Raffaele Fitto – owner as well as European affairs, of the cohesion and PNRR policies, but also from the South -, had left the government for the vice -president of the European Commission. And to the Council of Ministers yesterday, Meloni announced the name of bar to be proposed to the President of the Republic. Later the oath at Palazzo Chigi. «It is an honor for me to serve the institutions; My commitment will be the best to contribute to the strengthening of the processes of growth, development, cohesion and employment in the South ».

From Calabria to Palazzo Chigi

Born in 1960, originally from Pazzano, a small town in Locride in the province of Reggio Calabria, Luigi Sbarra left the leader of the CISL just on February 12th for 4 years for aged age limits by delivering the witness to Daniela Fumarola, his deputy.
But his life has always been in the union, starting from Fisbathe Federation of the CISL of the agricultural laborers in which it has been active in Calabria since the beginning of its commitment. And always in Calabria it is at the forefront in the battles for the workers of Gioia Tauro and Locride, in the industrial areas of Reggio Calabria and the Ionian saline and against the mafias in economics. And the commitment for the South after years returns to his words yesterday after the oath: « In recent years, thanks to the action of the Meloni government, the South has known significant signs of economic, social and employment recovery: it is now essential to consolidate this trajectory, filling the historical gaps and enhancing the available opportunities ». Since his arrival in Rome in 2009 in the CISL national confederal secretariat, he deals with industry, tertiary, transport, bargaining and in 2015 he became the leader of the National Fai Cisl. In 2018 he was addressed with Annamaria Furlan General of which he then inherits the role of CISL Secretary General in 2021.

The « soft » line of the CISL and the clashes with CGIL and UIL

And to « his » Cisl gives a softer line than the severe positions taken by CGIL and UIL towards the executives Conte, Draghi and Meloni against whom they also arrive General strikes. Choice that brings the CISL never adhere to the protests against the economic maneuvers of the three governments preferring a more dialogue attitude. But it also leads to clashes and fractures with the other two confederal unions. That’s why yesterday, among the numerous greetings and congratulations, including that of the secretary Cisl Fumarola (« is an assignment that recognizes the political thickness and social roots of a person who has dedicated the entire life to the defense and promotion of work, cohesion and development, in particular in the south of our country »), There was no shortage of attacks.
From five stars and Pd above all. With the deputy M5S Chiara Appendino Which defines the appointment « disconcerting, a loyalty prize for connivance to a government that is passing the rights of workers in the ministry ». While for the Dem Arturo Scotto« Now perhaps it is clearer because he sided with force for the no to the minimum salary. » Franco Mari of AVS Sentence: « We would have bet, the appointment of Sbarra is in perfect continuity with the role of support for the Meloni government had to date ». But another dem, Piero De Luca, He hopes that « he manages to do better than his predecessors ».