Obviously, the pivvatiffata water!
With the decree on privatizations the usual hamster ballet is beginning (after all, you are in the electoral campaign), in which the parties begin to excite their ultras using the usual slogans without meaning and meaning, but especially without contact with reality. An example:
All this hamster running hides the usual cognitive dissonance, that is the problem that prevents Italians from conceiving reality as different from fiction.
Let's go step by step.
The water has already been privatized for now.
In most of the Italian regions and municipalities, and Modena is no exception (indeed!) To control the water and 'a municipal. In the case of Modena, it is a company called HERA, which is already a private law company, complete with a CDA and “Profitti”.
You can read the profits for the first half of 2022 below.
https://www.gruppohera.it/-/il-cda-hera-approva-i-risultati-del-1-semestre-2022-1
The demonstrators, therefore, live with their minds in some pseudo-Soviet planet where the water is managed by "the municipality", or in any case not a SpA. And let's be clear: a SpA whose shares you can buy, you can invest in and play in. bag.
https://www.gruppohera.it/gruppo/investitori/titolo
OPS. So Modena's water is not only “privatized”, but even “financialized”. Only the idiots you see in the photo above haven't noticed it yet, essentially because they take drugs a lot and very often by reading texts on communism, or because they suffer from obvious mental illnesses, including the chronic street demonstration.
So the privatization bill will NOT change ANYTHING in the Modena situation, as the water in Modena is already privatized in its most striking way: it is on the stock exchange.
However, it will change some governance mechanisms. The bill, which refers to a European legislation, investigates a little bit on the “how” we got to this point. Who gave Hera water, why, how.
The problem, that is, is that in theory the private is one that
- is subject to competition, or at least it was at the time the tender was awarded
- transparently communicates to the market if it is on the stock exchange
- decisions are made in the board of directors
The trouble with all these requests is that things don't always go that way. What does it mean? It means that the services are privatized, except that the "privates" are nothing more than political parties (or their rich sycophants). And this produces, both to the parties and to the sycophants, both economic advantages and benefits in terms of votes (I don't know in Hera, but in many municipal companies you are hired only if you are part of the parties, not to mention executive suppliers and consultants).
The gentlemen who are in the square "for public water", that is, are almost certainly characters who defend the power that parties have over "private individuals". They do not care that Hera is a private listed on the stock exchange (indeed, many politicians have shares in municipal companies because being aware of future decisions they can make better sales and purchase choices)
Coming out of the water, a striking example are the bathing concessions. The beaches are normally managed by the Navy, which inherited them from the Merchant Navy, when it was decided to dismantle the ministry. (unfortunate choice) The trouble is that the concessions on the beaches of a municipality end up under the supervision of the municipality itself, or under the supervision of the parties. The current FdI is the party that manages these concessions the most.
This is a complex operation, which involves submitting a request to the Municipality, but to be entrusted with a portion of the beach you must win a competition periodically announced by the Maritime Property Authority, which assigns the available lots.
The Italian procedure for the assignment and renewal of concessions, in recent years, was different from that established by the European Union, with the same being renewed without the execution of a new call for tenders. That is, only with the approval of the request by the municipalities. That is, parties.
The problem of the competition bill is not to take away the concession from these gentlemen (the bill does not mention it) or to make them pay more (the bill does not set prices). Other countries where the same directive has been approved have simply corroborated it with constraints on the landscape, the environment and the local economy. And the small entrepreneurs have remained in their place (ah, yes, Italy is not the only country with beaches)
But the problem is that the “ex jure” assignment contrasts with the “ex mafia” or “ex party” one. That is, it takes away from FdI (in some areas of the Veneto the Lega) the power to decide who takes the beach. (if there are beaches where the Duce is praised, it is no coincidence, in short, and if the smugglers are at ease, too). And you can check the cultural footprint of the mafia and fascists simply by counting how many women and how many men have a concession on the beach.
All this opposition, including the Uber "scandal" (which was not a scandal: it is not clear why taxi drivers can lobby and Uber cannot, but the fascist is always like this, he enters the war and only then realizes of not having enough steel), is due to the fact that some assets in Italy have been privatized or managed by private individuals, but the rules by which private individuals have come into possession of public assets have never been clear, and they are not have never been homogeneous.
When they become clear, and also the obligations towards goods become clear (now it will be mandatory to maintain the water networks, just as the maintenance of bridges is now mandatory for Autostrade), obviously they touch those profits that, with all due respect to the Modenese who have not noticed anything, they have brought to the current water situation: saving on maintenance.
But of this, the heroes who fight against the evil privaty, had never noticed.