ROMA (ITALPRESS) – “Doing liberal things means getting liberalism out of the museum and updating it. Is it still liberal to consider a dogma that of the minimum state, when there are Big Tech that count more than national states and have an annual turnover that exceeds the GDP of national states? And what would happen if there was no state intervention at the time of Covid.” So Roberto Occhiuto, president of the Calabria Region and vice national secretary of Forza Italia, in an interview with “Il Foglio”, in which he disputes “the dogmatic way with which the liberal principles are often affirmed”.
Doctors complain about organic deficiency and say: we would not be ready for another pandemic. “If the reform writes it with corporations, it is generally not a good reform. I think I was the only one, in my party, to say that there is no reform under the dictation of general medical doctors – who must also be heard.”.
Method applied to taxi licenses? “I went on to be against autonomy, but I won in the Constitutional Court by raising the conflict of attribution with the government and against the Salvini decrees on the Ncc. The Court affirmed that the matter does not compete with the national government, and therefore in Calabria we have liberalized the market. I couldn’t have done it if I had listened to taxi drivers instead of who has to take the taxi.”.
In the interview, the blue governor also addresses the theme of bathing. The Calabria Region has approved a law on concessions referring to the Bolkenstein Directive on the obligation to tender concessions only when there is actual scarcity of the natural resource (the beaches) and to the extent that it provides, upstream of the competition, checks on the actual state of scarcity, territory by territory.
President Occhiuto explains this measure: “What is the goal that every liberal should pursue? I answer: improve the quality of the services. But, if you see the reality of the Calabrian coasts, you will see stretches of free beaches, unlike in Liguria or in Tuscany, for example. This, in those regions, involves the presence of position returns that do not ensure the quality of the service. In Calabria, instead, in front of a record influx of tourists, we find ourselves with kilometers of beaches without services. And while I invite the municipalities to do the races, I find unfair to dismantle the few presidi that offer a minimum of services. Competition serves to allocate poor resources, not to produce artificial scarcity.”.
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