Petrol station strike at the end of January. “Against us a wave of mud”

With a note released in the early morning of today, the acronyms Faib-Confesercenti, Fegica, Figisc-Confcommercio, which represent around 16,000 of the 22,000 managers of Italian petrol stations, have called a strike for the next 25 and 26 January (more precisely, from 7pm on the 24th to 7am on the 27th). The press release reads that “the managers’ associations, jointly, have taken the decision to proclaim the state of agitation of the category” for “put an end to this ‘mud wave’”.

The reference is to the measures adopted by the government in recent days during the last CDM. For the president of Fegica, Roberto Di Vincenzo, “the ads contain nothing that affects prices and excise duties remain among the highest in the world”. But not only. The acronyms also complain to the executive “a shameful media campaign” with which “the responsibility is unloaded on the managers who become the recipients of insults and swearing by exasperated motorists”. And here the reference becomes the words of Meloni, who with a press release from Palazzo Chigi made a generic accusation of speculation in the past days, only to then backtrack with a video on Facebook yesterday where he defined most of the petrol stations ” honest and responsible.” But the position of the categories remains very tough: we talk about “irresponsible and unusually serious political actions”, in the communication to the Guarantee Commission of the Implementation of the law on the strike.

“It’s a media hoax to which the organizations intend to give answers with the mobilization of the managers”, the category representatives continue in the note, who for this reason have announced in parallel “a counter-information campaign on the plants”. The protest also provides in the same days a garrison under Montecitorio.