The Accounting Department rejects the extension of the bathing establishments. And the fight between the Lega and FdI breaks out in the Senate

It was to bring the news Luke Cirianthe. “The accounting rejects the amendment, the extension on the bathing establishments is skipped“. The sentence, actually quite obvious for those who have followed the dossier, thus rains down in the Senate Hall, in a small group of centre-right leaders. And immediately Massimiliano Romeo, Northern League leader, blurts out on the muzzle of the Minister for Relations with Parliament “We care very little about accounting. Go on. If you lack the courage, I’ll take the responsibility: the amendment remains”.

But if it was just a matter of courage, who knows. Instead, here the question is accounting. And after all, the Mef technicians had already reported it: the extension wanted by the center-right, postponing the rule that increases the fees that bathing establishments have to pay to the treasury, inevitably produces a shortfall in state revenue. From there he does not escape. And it was known. And in fact Massimo Garavaglia, president of the Finance Commission, one who had already managed the beach money as Minister of Tourism in the Draghi government, spreads his arms disconsolately. “They are boys, they are beginners”, he confides to the dem Antonio Misiani, who asks him for clarifications.

In short, it ends with a half-rant between Ciriani and Romeo. And with the feeling, however, of the great scam. That the gift to the bathing establishments, that is, had been included in the Milleproroghe more than anything else as an electoral stimulus, desired not by chance by Maurizio Gasparri from Lazio, to win the votes of the managers of the awards of the Roman coast. After the party, duped the saint. So now we’re back in the Budget Committee, in the Senate, to do the accounts. And to argue.

In the meantime, the session has been suspended for an hour. For the anger of the opposition, united for once. Here then is the grillino Stefano Patuanelli, Daniele Manca of the Democratic Party and Renziana Lella Paita leaving the Chamber together disconsolate. “In the irreconcilability between promises and the reality of the facts, the government only knows how to stall for time”, comments the group leader of the Third Pole. “Absurd” says Patuanelli laconically.

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• Valerio Valentini

• Born in L’Aquila, in 1991. Grew up in Collemare, up there in the Apennines. Classical high school diploma, degree in Modern Literature at the University of Trento. Al Foglio since 2017. I wrote a book, “Gli 80 di Camporammaglia”, published by Laterza, with which I won the Campiello Opera Prima award in 2018. I like good books and good cinema. And cycling, everything, even the bad stuff.