Rimini. Andrea Gnassi: “To cross-border commuters who work in San Marino we must guarantee respect and serious proposals that can be translated into law”
“I leave confusion, false promises and utopias to the center-right: we owe the cross-border commuters clarity, respect and serious proposals that can be translated into law. We are talking about 7,000 people, who in terms of number and size of the phenomenon represent the largest ‘company’ in the Region or could be considered the 12th municipality in our province out of 27 ”.
Andrea Gnassi, candidate of the center left in the elections of 25 September in the Chamber of Deputies and mayor of Rimini from 2011 to 2021“Is used to speaking the language of truth: in order not to offend the intelligence of the many workers as well as that of border retirees – reads a press release -, she therefore considers it necessary to put in line the unresolved priorities that impact the real life of these people”.
“Salvinithat crossing the borders of the oldest Republic in the world for an electoral visit was received by even the secretaries of state and the business world of San Marino, belatedly and instrumentally has the need to review the 1974 agreement with Italy proposing an agreement similar to the model in force between Como and Chiasso, without explaining what it is. There usual electoral shot in search of consensus, without ever going into the merits of the questions: the theme of the mutual recognition between the due States of parental leave or of law 104for example – highlights Gnassi -, cheatta on those families and situations of self-sufficiency imp that does not continue to feed a social versus equation is more in difficulty ”.
“At this point, clarifying becomes inevitable: either the center-right is in a state of confusion or lies in the knowledge that he is lying. The problem of double taxation arises with the Minister of Finance of the Berlusconi government back in 2002, a certain one Giulio Tremontithat Tremonti who is given as papable minister in the event of a victory of the center-right, which with her blacklist in which he inserted the Titan by placing the Guardia di Finanza constantly on the bordersput in great difficulty the healthy economic and productive system of the Republic, using the frontier workers to come ‘human shields’ to settle the questions between the 2 states – always declares the former mayor of Rimini -. At this point, the question arises: can the one who generated the problem, the Lega, be able to solve it? My lapidary answer is ‘no’, in fact just look at the bad figure made with the case plateswhich has put many workers who run San Marino vehicles in difficulty, a question that has only recently been resolved ”.
And again: “In 2003 the Berlusconi government introduced double and unjust taxation only for the cross-border commuters of San Marino, perpetrating the dripping of the extension of the deductible decided from year to year also as regards the amount of the latter. Deductible that only thanks to the work of the honorable members of the Romagna financial center in 2013 has instead become structural and definitive through the financial law. In the same year, also thanks to the commitment of the trade unions, the important signing of the Italy-San Marino Convention against double taxation was reached ”.
Returning to current events, Gnassi is useful, profitable and serious to formulate concrete proposals: “From cross-border commuters comes the request to increase the deductible and make it indexed annually: a measure to support workers’ income becomes extremely urgent in this difficult moment due to the increased costs of expenditure and energy, which I will support with conviction. My commitment will be to bring the just and sustainable demands of frontier workers to Rome, without making unrealizable promises like that of canceling the double taxation heralded by the candidate. Those who support this theory like Domenica Spinelli, who has now landed at Fratelli d’Italia, is that since 2012 you have discovered only 2022 that there are also instances of workers from across the border, you only use weapons of mass distraction to collect a few more votes. On the other hand, if you respect them, remember the frontier workers when writing the decrees, providing for application cases as for the bonus of 200 euros or that ofas a unique sign and not just every five years when you go hunting for votes. Also because, I repeat, we are talking about 7,000 people, thousands of families and stories of our land. San Marino and Romagna are communities that integrate with each other from every point of view, professional, family, economic, cultural and social: for this reason it is necessary to work seriously and without illusions, to consolidate relationships and protect people“.
“This is why I am sure that the cross-border commuters, who have their own dignity, will not be duped by the new ‘storytellers’, but will know how to rely on their memory in evaluating the seriousness and concreteness of the proposals that I will put in place”, concludes Gnassi.