Salerno, the police regulations and the short circuit between politics and nightlife

The issue of the new urban police regulation approved by the council and then postponed (until when?) to the city council does not seem to be underestimated. Because it highlights political malaise in the majority that supports the mayor Enzo Napoli and his council. But, and perhaps above all, also because it highlights a new short circuit between the city, its entrepreneurs, and those who administer it.

Therefore, it happens that after twenty-one years the aforementioned regulation is put in place, as happens in other cities, and with the same delays. The person who proposes and gets the regulation approved by the council is the councilor Claudio Tringalithat is to say the last survivor among the three technicians recruited to the municipal government of Salerno at the (very) critical moment of the investigation into social cooperatives which had a significant impact on municipal management as well as on the services (poorly) provided to citizens.

Well, what happens now? There is a latent conflict between the last of the technicians and the so-called “pure” politicians, those who represent those who gave them consensus and who naturally act as a sounding board for their voters. The “pure” politicians seem fearful of the hostility that the new constraints may encounter among traders and nightlife operators. Which seems like a preventive and probably excessive concern, if it is true that among nightlife entrepreneurs there is actually little knowledge and even less hostility towards the (future) regulation.

As documented by the opinions collected by Barbara Cangiano For The morning, many do not cry scandal over the regulation but rather call for attention and controls for what is the real black stain of Salerno’s nightlife, namely the sale of alcohol to minors, which creates social dramas in exchange for a few pennies to pipers without scruples about cicchetti for one euro. Few people do it, they harm everyone – as well as kids of course – and therefore healthy entrepreneurship asks politics to intervene. Here it is, the short circuit between the community that recognizes its own shortcomings and those who should interpret its needs.

Therefore, the question of urban police regulation is postponed to better times, waiting for the redde rationem between the allies/antagonists of Guerra palace. For local political development it will also be a test on the future of personal fortunes, careers and destinies. In Salerno we will vote one year after the regional elections, it is a story yet to be written and with many variables among the older and more rampant of the Deluchian parterre who could aspire to succeed the mayor-architect in the tricolor band.

In the meantime, however, the “yes, no, maybe” that marked the story of the urban police regulation remains incomprehensible to those outside of this logic. That nightlife needs new rules and stimuli is completely evident to those who make a living in it (increasingly worse) as well as to those who live it (increasingly modestly). A regulation is probably needed. And bye bye, some ideas too.

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