The petrol station strike starts tomorrow and will last 48 hours: "Self-services are also closed"

The petrol stations confirm the strike. Petrol stations closed from tomorrow, Tuesday 24 January, from 7pm on the ordinary network and from 10pm on the motorways. The strike will last 48 hours and the self-service shops will also remain closed .

The Faib, Fegica and Figisc-Anisa organizations recall this in a note, noting that "the government, instead of opening up to discussions on the real problems of the sector, continues to talk about transparency and gray areas only to hide its responsibilities and pollute the debate, suggesting the fault of speculation by petrol stations that simply do not exist. Re-establishing the truth of the facts therefore becomes a priority, to finally open the confrontation on the merits ».

Some service stations chosen on a provincial basis will remain open in order to guarantee minimum services. Individual prefectures will identify the distributors in service. On the highways, on the other hand, the Regions decide, which must guarantee an active distributor every 100 kilometres.

In the various service stations, two posters have been prepared, one with the times of the strike and the other to indicate the reasons for the protest, due to the " shameful smear campaign against the category that has been covered in mud following the increases decided by the government ; to remind everyone that public price policies are not attributable to managers, whose average profit margin (3 cents per litre) remains unchanged regardless of the final price to the consumer; to say no to the new, useless legal obligations imposed on managers, who have been operating in complete transparency for years; to prevent the price of fuel from rising again against managers and consumers".

Giorgia Meloni, for her part, does not retrace her steps and from Algiers defends the decree "of discord". «We have already summoned them twice, the government has never imagined measures to point out the category of petrol station attendants but to recognize the value of the many honest people . Then the average price didn't say they were sky-high. There has been very little speculation. But we couldn't go back on the provision that is right, publishing the average price is common sense . On another we went to meet. No one wants to hit the category."