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January 29, 2020 With 140 votes in favor, one against and 100 abstentions, the Senate has definitively approved the bill to convert the decree-law on Alitalia. The provision, in view of the procedure for the sale of the company complexes, intervenes to safeguard the company's operations and to start a new procedure aimed at identifying one or more buyer subjects.

The six-month loan of € 400 million has been confirmed, to be used not only to meet the indifferent management needs but also for the execution of a plan of initiatives and interventions. Furthermore, changes are made to the program of the extraordinary administration procedure for the transfer of company complexes, providing for initiatives and interventions for the reorganization and efficiency of the company structure and activities, functional to the timely definition of the transfer procedures for company complexes, to be carried out - according to a integration of the Chamber of Deputies - taking into account the employment levels and the operational unit of the business complexes.

The law also intervenes on the powers of the companies' commissioner body, providing that, by the deadline of 31 May 2020, it must complete the necessary procedures for the transfer of the company complexes as resulting from the new plan of initiatives and interventions, ensuring discontinuity also economic management by the assignee. In a declaration of vote M5s senator Stefania Lupo explained that "today there is only one thing to do, to row all together to support the work carried out by Minister Patuanelli: act in every way on reducing losses, renegotiate all contracts in place through the commissioner power, look to a real and concrete stability project for our company ".

D'Arienzo (Pd): "Committed to relaunch"
"With this decree a new loan is granted to the Alitalia group companies for 400 million euros for the duration of 6 months, in continuity with respect to the past. It is the sixth provision on the former flag carrier. We have voted with conviction, because Italy must have an air connection with the rest of the world and within it and alternative solutions were not possible, also in light of the difficulties of the air transport sector ". This was said in a note by Senator Vincenzo D'Arienzo, leader of the Democratic Party in the Public Works Commission. "It is clear that the government's commitment does not end here: the search for an industrial partner for Alitalia must be associated with the need to relaunch the company, it cannot be a sale, also to safeguard employment levels. We appreciate - concludes the senator dem - the balance with which the opposition forces have accepted this provision. The law on the reorganization of air transport, which we are about to deal with in the Public Works Committee, will have to constitute an additional opportunity ".

Mallegni (FI): "Constructive abstention"
"From Forza Italia a constructive abstention vote. We believe that Alitalia must be managed by a high level management, so that it can compete on the international market by returning to having the characteristics of a flag carrier, even if it is not owned by the state". This was said by Forza Italia senator Massimo Mallegni. "The Alitalia brand is one of the most prestigious in the country and we must all work so that it can be protected and re-valued. And we believe - he added - that an essential and not renounceable prerequisite for achieving this is the implementation in Italy of intermodality between plane and train , just as we believe that the new Alitalia can, like other foreign companies operating in Italy, obtain financing from local authorities, chambers of commerce, etc. in exchange for specific services in the area ".