With the privatization process, Sardinia risks losing dozens of post offices in small towns. This is the alarm raised by the regional unions Slp-Cisl, Slc-Cgil, Uillposte. The three acronyms ask users and municipalities to join the "battle to defend the last bastion of the State present in all small and very small local realities".

The details of the government operation are contained in the text that has just arrived in Parliament. The document sent to the Budget Committee of the Chamber provides that the State's share in the capital of Poste Italiane must not be "less than 35 percent". Translated: the remaining 29 percent of the shares will be placed on the market, available to Italian and international savers and institutional investors. The privatization operation is worth an immediate 1.5 billion euros. It should be closed by the fall.

«The sale of the assets of the Italian Post Office», Bruno Brandano (Cisl), Gianna Cossu (Cgil) and Alessandro Perra (Uil) denounce in a note, «risks leading to the closure of dozens of post offices in the small communities of Sardinia, depriving residents of the essential communication and financial support services that it has always provided and guaranteed for everyone and, at the same time, impoverishing the already struggling social and economic fabric of our region".

The choice of further privatisation, the three trade unionists attack, «only serves the government to raise cash, without solving in the slightest the great problem of the enormous Italian public debt, the choice to further privatize the Italian Post Office will only be to the detriment of the well-being and cohesion of the local communities".

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(Unioneonline/E.Fr.)

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