Yesterday, however, was characterized by yet another clash, needless to say along the Center-Right-South axis calling North. It all starts from what two of the designated members of the Scurria council, the undersecretary Matilde Siracusano and Carlotta Previti, defined as “the first resolution” that will come in the event of a victory for the Center-Right: the “Shutters raised” project. An act «which provides for the provision of contributions to entrepreneurs who decide to invest in the area, fixed economic supports of 3,000 euros and variable ones of up to 10,000 euros and “relaunch vouchers” of up to 25,000 euros». A response, say Siracusano and Previti, “to the economic emergency that Messina is experiencing with 3,800 closures recorded in the last 8 years, also due to cycle paths and car parks that have created a road network that needs to be reviewed”. In this context also the “Kiss & Shop” initiative: «Stop even for just 30 minutes, as in the Kiss&Go airports, for quick purchases in participating businesses and restart».
The reply is the former councilor for Commerce (and designated councilor of Federico Basile), Massimo Finocchiaro, who defines «embarrassing to listen to announcements that seem to subordinate the arrival of funds and investments to political consensus or even to the outcome of the next local elections. If tens of millions of euros really existed, why haven’t these sums already been made available to businesses and the local area?”. Finocchiaro recalls the initiatives already undertaken, on all the over 5 million euros of the Impresa.Net and Made in Me projects, the tax relief on Tari, the fee for occupying public land and markets and free interchange parking, the reduced rates for parking and the ATM “Shopping Line”. Rejoinder Carlotta Previti: «The funds do not fall from the sky, they are obtained if there is planning capacity, programming and institutional credibility. Messina doesn’t need self-congratulatory propaganda, it needs capable administrators.” But according to Finocchiaro (the counter-rejoinder), «if the funds do not arrive automatically and are not due, there is nothing other than a “nice dream”»
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