A fundamental issue for our country. Which, in a city like Florence, will certainly have a huge impact on the next local elections in June. A meeting between political and industrial categories and a finger pointed, peremptorily, at the Democratic Party. The room at the Adriatico hotel in Florence, where the meeting was held, organized by Fratelli d’Italia “Tourist value for Italy and Florence: policies for sustainable development”, was packed. Among the speakers, deputy Gianluca Caramanna, minister Daniela Santanchè’s tourism advisor, senator Paolo Marcheschi and the group’s leader in the Tuscany region, Francesco Torselli.
At the center of the debate are the present and future of the city. On several occasions the current mayor, Dario Nardella, was questioned. Because tourism means employment, prospects for the city and attractiveness. But it is undoubtedly linked to the development of infrastructure, security and the very idea of a historic center. Many, especially among the exponents of the categories, recalled how the presence of authentic gray zones, areas (Cascine, via della Scala and via Palazzuolo, the square around the Santa Maria Novella station) in which illegal African immigrants can negotiate and steal with impunity represents enormous damage to someone’s image. Without forgetting the damage that shops and bars in the historic center are forced to suffer almost daily. Among the ideas, the need to place at the center the synergy between tourist activity and residents with a virtuous perspective of development, but also the redistribution of resources in favor of residents and less valued areas outside the historic center. With a clear change of direction in the use of tourist tax.
In addition to organizers Giovanni Gandolfo and Francesco Palmigiani, municipal coordinator Jacopo Cellai, deputy Angela Sirello and the leader of the group at Palazzo Vecchio, Alessandro Draghi, were also present. Furthermore, it is essential to expand tourist routes from typical destinations in the historic center to new areas of interest with the help of institutions and tourist guides, more security with the creation of an ad hoc tourist police unit with anti-decay functions and contrast to illegal activity with the aim of freeing up municipal police personnel through increased patrolling in peripheral and night-time areas. Finally, the challenge for infrastructure: the centrality of the construction of the new airport (over which the Democratic Party has been ping-pong for more than 30 years) and the need to create new parking lots near the airport were reiterated. center in order to encourage and encourage the presence of Florentines. An issue linked to tourism that will most likely also determine the result of the next local elections.
Source: IL Tempo
Emma Fitzgerald is an accomplished political journalist and author at The Nation View. With a background in political science and international relations, she has a deep understanding of the political landscape and the forces that shape it.
