The first go-ahead for the Milleproroghe decree , obtained yesterday in the Senate with 88 votes in favour, 63 against and 3 abstentions, comes amid controversy. With a clash between the majority and the opposition but also between the government and the majority on the question of extending the tenders for the seaside resorts , in all its forms.

A raw nerve that became sensitive again - it is said in parliamentary circles - after Colle's doubts about the possible risks of a sanctioning intervention by Brussels for how the provision in question would have been formulated as a whole. The point would not concern the flat one-year extension but all the rules that act as a corollary to it , including those that would allow , under certain conditions, further postponements of the tenders, until 2025 .

The Milleproproghe decree, in detail, plans to postpone by one year - to the end of 2024 - the expiry of state authorizations and therefore also their tendering scheduled from 1 January 2024 . An issue that puts Italy in difficulty with Europe which has already repeatedly called our country to respect competition precisely on state property concessions.

This would therefore have been the crux on which the government and its majority questioned, which in any case went straight, delivering the text to the Chamber without modifications.

The oppositions are therefore now going on the attack asking, united, that "the government reports" speaking of a "serious gap in terms of transparency" and also asking to be able to acquire a technical opinion from the Accounting Office on the point .

In the meantime, the entrepreneurs of the sector are celebrating and in a note they thank, in particular, the senators Gasparri and Centinaio for having brought forward issues that «Assobalneari Italia continues to support with conviction and without ever changing its mind».

In any case, it is not said that the game will end here given also the awaited ruling of the European Court of Justice to which, among others, the TAR of Lecce has addressed the matter.

And it is said that even Colle, at the time of signing the law, can have its say.

Now next week the Chamber will have to examine the provision which must be converted into law by February 27th . And the government has already announced that, to speed up the process, it could raise the question of trust with the final vote expected between 23 and 26 February.

(Unioneonline/vl)

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