RIMINI – Mayday-mayday, Romagna is calling Rome: people are playing with fire on beach concessions, so tourism here is sinking. There is deregulation panic on the beaches in Romagna. The centre-left mayors of the Romagna coast are siding alongside the lifeguards coop in the request for clarity regarding state concessions. “In the absence of clear and fair rules there is no future for seaside tourism. It’s madness, yet there is still someone who leaves Bolkestein”, underlines the mayor of Ravenna and president of the province, Michele De Pascale, participating this morning in the presentation in Rimini of Legacoop Romagna’s Manifesto and petition “Let’s save the beaches of Romagna”.DE PASCALE: “ROMAGNA RAISE YOUR VOICE AND DEMAND A CLEAR LAW FROM THE GOVERNMENT””There is no understanding of the risk that Romagna is running”, argues the mayor of Ravenna, it is not in fact “just a question of fairness and justice for businesses, it is a joke”, between the lack of rules and appeals by Agcom against the Municipalities that hire choices. The picture is quickly clear: “The State delegates competence to the Regions which sub-delegate it to the Municipalities and the Authority states that they must disapply the legislation and invent their own”. Precisely “madness”, with the risk of having to intervene “from morning to night, therefore not seriously, and cause a disaster”. If evidence then rewards merit, De Pascale has no doubts, “in Romagna the best are the current dealers”.
This is why, all things considered, Romagna “must raise its voice and demand a clear position and law from the government”. The “serious uncertainty and the absence of decisions” are also stigmatized by the Municipality of Rimini: “Real politics does not run away but decides”. Paolo Lucchi (Legacoop) and Michele De Pascale (Mayor of Ravenna) THE DEM MAYORS ARE WORRIED: ” WE DON’T KNOW HOW TO DO THE RACES” While the newly confirmed mayor of Misano Adriatico Fabrizio Piccioni returns to Agcom’s request for suspension, clarifying that “we don’t know how to do the races” and “there could be a forfeiture of the title during the period summer”. Hence the need to create a “critical mass. We are very worried about reaching the end of the year with the procedures for assignments in the spring. The uncertainty penalizes the beach, there is no investment”. The mayor therefore urges us to “work with unique criteria between Municipalities on procedures that take into account the peculiarities but speaking the same language”. THE PARLIAMENTARY MEMBER OF ROMAGNIA PD: “MAKE A MASS TO SEND A SIGNAL TO ROME” The Party MP takes up the appeal Democrat Ouidad Bakkali: “We ended up in a tunnel because there was no strategy. The issue must be treated in a synergistic way”, also because between the Pnrr and the flood the Municipalities will struggle to manage hundreds of tenders. For a framework law, the dem highlights, “time and dialogue are needed. The urgency is to mass and demobilize the Roman part”, as well as defend “our model of a democratic beach”. Certainly, the regional councilor of the Democratic Party, Nadia Rossi, does not hide the fact that she does not always agree with the beach operators, “the issue is not easy, there are fragmentations, even in our region”. But we must send “a signal to Rome. The Region – he concludes – does not hold back in coordinating the Municipalities. We will be strong if united and it has not always been like this, particularly here in Rimini”. COOP BALNEARI: “A LAW IS NEEDED THAT GET ORDER… ‘OTHERWISE WE WILL GET ANGRY'” The mayors are therefore at the side of the Romagna seaside cooperatives who are breaking the deadlock and asking the Meloni government for clarity as soon as possible on the subject of state concessions. So as to protect the “democratic” model created. They do so by launching the “Rimini Manifesto” today and the consequent petition “Let’s save the beaches of Romagna”, to be signed even under the umbrella, with which Legacoop Romagna asks politicians as well as tourists and residents to take a position.The Manifesto of Rimini, specifically, asks the government for a law to reorganize concessions, the defense of working continuity, the recognition of the market value of companies, the protection and continuity of the current service model, the recognition of experience and professionalism of businesses. The cooperatives, the president of Legacoop Romagna Paolo Lucchi immediately specifies to the press called this morning on the beach in Rimini, are “angrier than Bud Spencer and Terence Hill in the film Otherwise we get angry”. In fact “for too many years” there has been “superficiality”, “two leaps in quality” are needed. On the one hand to create “a broad and compact front” between the Region, Municipalities, parliamentarians and managers; on the other by the government to guarantee “seriousness and commitment”. The objective, Lucchi underlines, is “to avoid competitions held differently in the territories” and to arrive within the year at a “common platform for the entire Emilia-Romagna coast”.
