The seaside resorts of Rimini against the government: “Disappointed by those who say they are on our side”

RIMINI The beach operators of Rimini, the first seaside city in Italy in terms of tourist numbers, are not hiding a certain “disappointment” with the government after the President of the Republic also branded the umpteenth extension of state concessions as incompatible with the law European and Italian jurisprudence. It was precisely the majority that wanted to include it in the Milleproroghe decree that over the years has spent itself on the battles of the category.

“If this government does not solve the problem here, it will be the end of us. There will be no one else who will be able to secure our businesses”, he told Ansa Mauro Vannipresident of the Cooperativa Bagnini Rimini Sud and of Confartigianato state-owned enterprises.

With the settlement of the Meloni government, for the seaside resorts of the province of Rimini, which alone has about 500 establishments, it seemed like a done deal. The majority made up of those parties who took turns parading on the shoreline promising everything they wanted fueled the enthusiasm. “We are convinced that this government wants to help us”, Vanni began, but there is “the disappointment that it has not taken the situation head on”.

Blame, according to the plant managers, the election campaign promises: “This extension – reconstructs the category representative – is the result of the regional elections that took place in Lazio and Lombardy. Now that Mattarella has also told him, let’s hope that the ‘have understood”, says angrily Vanni, who returns to ask for a definitive law on tenders. “There are no more excuses. We don’t want extensions, but clarity”. The appeal is to the majority parties: “Since they have always said they want to defend us, now they must be concrete”.

Of a similar opinion is the president of Oasi Italia, also from Rimini, Giorgio Mussoni. “The center-right does the same things as the others,” he argues, referring to stalling for time.
“A one-year extension does not solve the problem and will annoy Europe”. Italy implemented the Bolkestein directive on free competition in 2010. Since then, governments of all stripes have made one extension after another. “We have the real enemies at home”, he says making the list: politics “which has never tackled the matter in the right direction”, and the seaside resorts who have split: “At the beginning we had three acronyms, now we are eleven” .
Mussoni once again asks for a law that recognizes the value of a business and that rewards the professionalism of the operators. The president of the Riccione Lifeguard Cooperative Diego Casadei also does so: “The government said it wanted to take matters into their own hands and defend the Italian peculiarity. But it must do so with regulatory acts that respect European and Italian jurisprudence”. “We need clarity once and for all”, is what he demands, because “an extension made to buy time is useless”.