Strange to say but the 5 Star Movement, champion of honesty, is about to lend a hand to the Tredicine family's bar trucks, the one mentioned several times in recent years in the context of the Mafia Capitale process. In addition to being a question of legality, that of bar trucks has also become a question of decorum, given the sometimes questionable and degrading presence of these itinerant businesses in the main streets and squares of Rome.
Here, the European law signed by Frits Bolkestein in 2006 and implemented in Italy in 2010 had put a stop to this phenomenon, but now the grillina majority in the Capitol has given the new green light to the Tredicine bar trucks, through a motion presented by the president of the Commerce commission Andrea Coia (M5Stelle). Bolkestein, on the other hand, proposed above all to favor free competition and to ban public land concessions for trade by May 2017, but also to relocate the stalls.
“We are not just talking about bar trucks and stalls, but newsstands, florists and markets – writes Andrea Coia -. The City is totally unprepared to ban the 12-15.000 licenses.” The suspicion is that the battle to "save" the street vendors is all political: the posts have been used as electoral bargaining chips for decades. Among those in favour, there are also representatives of the center left and among the dissidents some grillini, such as the former councilor of the 20st Town Hall Tiziano Azzara who wrote on Facebook on 5 October: "The extension for the stall business managed by a shady few will pass figures to whom the MXNUMXS rolls out a beautiful red carpet”.
The position of the 5 Star Movement was then invariably enriched by the usual anti-conspiracy connotations: "No to speculation on multinationals, we defend itinerant trade with jobs and we ask the Government and the Region to extend the deadlines of all the concessions envisaged and to remove itinerant trade from the Bolestein directive".
