Overview
- A CNEL deliberation set Renato Brunetta’s remuneration at €310,000 and revised the top leadership compensation envelope to about €1.5 million plus roughly €380,000 in contributions.
- The 2025 allocation for fixed pay and related items rose from an initial €850,000 forecast to €1.88 million, according to CNEL’s budget note.
- The Constitutional Court’s July ruling (No. 135) removed the €240,000 ceiling and referenced a benchmark of €311,658.53 tied to the first president of the Court of Cassation.
- Opposition parties condemned the move and announced parliamentary questions, with figures from M5S, Italia Viva and Avs denouncing the timing and scale.
- Palazzo Chigi signaled irritation and called the decision “not acceptable,” the Lega said it will seek to reverse the increases through an interrogation and a Finance Law measure, and CNEL defended the change as a lawful implementation approved by its plenary on 23 October without opposing votes.