San Marino. USOT: “On the expensive bills we have repeatedly called on the Government and the majority”
“We cannot remain silent on the words of the Secretary with responsibility for AASS Lonfernini who, on the sidelines of the evening held last Wednesday to explain the increases in bills, said he was sorry for the absence of trade associations from the public session”.
This is how the intervention of the USOT Board (San Marino Union of Tourism Operators) on the topic of expensive energy. “We would like to remind Secretary Lonfernini that, like Usot on the issue of bills, we have tried to urge both the government and the majority many times.
We recall that with a press release dated May 12th, we were the first and for the first time to try to raise awareness of the Policy in the face of the already more than substantial and evidently lasting increase in energy and raw material costs.
Last 7 October we issued another press release to denounce the dramatic situation that companies in our sector find themselves enduring, for the same reasons, and which will suffer even more as winter approaches.
Furthermore, between 12 May and 7 October we sent no less than four requests to the Government and to the Majority so that an urgent meeting could also be set up with the other Employers’ Associations and with the Trade Union Organizations to deal with the expensive bills at a time when in the meantime, the tables for the renewals of the various National Collective Labor Agreements are open.
The Government, the Majority and therefore also the Secretariat of State for Employment with responsibility for relations with the AASS have NEVER replied, either formally or informally, to our four requests for a meeting. Perhaps Lonfernini missed these requests along the way.
It is sad to note that the government and the majority are increasingly quarrelsome and unproductive, more concerned with placing internal vetoes than with acting with common sense in the interest of the country with substantial measures and true reforms not only in name but also in content.
In this sense, the recent reform, which is not a reform, of the Social Security System is the precise explanation of what has just been written.
Faced with a constantly increasing public debt and in the total absence of structural reform interventions capable of producing a return in economic terms in the medium/long term that makes debt sustainable, it is not possible to remain silent. We have said it several times, they could and formally, to this Government which unfortunately has always remained silent and absent from our requests and proposals.
We cannot think that in the ideas of the Government and of Secretary Lonfernini, the response to our numerous requests for discussion took the form of the public evening open to all citizens held last week. Even just thinking about it, we find it extremely offensive not to USOT but to an entire economic system made up of 200 operators who represent an important slice of our country’s GDP.
As we have already said, the only provision on the matter (Delegated Decree No. 77 of 2022) with the high-sounding title “Extraordinary measures for the containment of utility costs” was, metaphorically, inadequate and banal.
While we appreciate that the Government organizes open public sessions to all citizens aimed at explaining and clarifying often chaotic and incomprehensible measures, we are nonetheless awaiting an official response to our four previous requests, which we renew here to the entire executive and also to the Secretary Lonfernini”.