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12 July 2020 The Autostrade dossier should arrive on the Council of Ministers' table not earlier than Tuesday. It will be there that the government will decide whether to withdraw the concession to Aspi or accept the "peace" proposal put forward by the Benetton group . The theme continues to divide the majority with the 5Stelle who push for the cancellation of the contract and Iv who instead warns against the risk of appeals and penalties. Gianni Mion , president of Edizione , the holding company of the Benetton family, the first shareholder of Atlantia

, recorded the story . On the part of Autostrade for Italy and Atlantia came to the government "a serious proposal" to close the game tied to the future of the concession Aspi, but - warns Mion - "I'm not optimistic." The two groups "made a great effort, even professionally". Now "you just have to wait". Even Teresa Bellanova  (Iv), Minister of Agriculture intervenes, Facebook, on Autostrade affair. "For two years we have been witnessing an endless soap opera on the issue of motorway concessions , it is time to end it. For this I turn the terms of the question upside down. It is not interesting what the private person puts on the table. What matters is the protection of the public interest . Any public-private pact must start from here, whoever the private person is, and in this matter, ensuring public interest means guaranteeing citizens the efficiency, effectiveness, safety and total quality of a service, not least the tariff aspect. point and we discuss this. " The position of the Undersecretary for Infrastructure and Transport, Roberto Traversi  (M5s), is clearer. "A clear discontinuity with the past, from every point of view. This I asked about the concession of Autostrade per l'Italia. It means that when we inaugurate the new Morandi bridge we will have to be able to tell relatives of the victims of the collapse that we have turned around page to write a completely new one, and there are only two possibilities to do so: that the concession to Autostrade per l'Italia is revoked or that the Benetton family leaves the shareholding, which has maintained control over these years marked by predatory neglect and guilty abandonment of maintenance ". The dossier keeps the debate alive on this Sunday in mid-July also in the opposition with the president of Forza Italia senators, Anna Maria Bernini : “If the government really intends to nationalize the motorway concessions by accepting the Five Star diktat, it must first say: has it strengthened the structures of Anas ? Has the maintenance of state and local roads been better in recent years than that of the motorway sections? The seven thousand direct employees are protected by the social protection clause, but what will happen to the employees of the associated companies, which are almost as many? Who will finance the completion of the eaves? Will the Five Stars who don't want it check here too? ”. Bernini is echoed by Mariastella Gelmini , leader of Forza Italia in the Chamber of Deputies: "Forza Italia does not defend the Benettons, Forza Italia defends the interest of the citizens. Aspi has in fact accepted all the requests made in recent weeks by Palazzo Chigi. Now the game is all political. Statalizzare Autostrade, as Prime Minister Conte seems to want to keep together the pieces of his majority, would represent a dangerous return to the past and a serious damage for the Italians ". For the League, through the national infrastructure manager, Edoardo Rixi , "The PD-5S government is increasingly divided on the concession to Autostrade and continues not to decide. But what is more serious is that the executive is only focused on the governance of Aspi and the corporate future, neglecting the real objective: compensation for damages to Liguria for the collapse of the Morandi bridge in terms of compensatory works and reduction of tolls ". We therefore await the government's decision on the plan that Autostrade per l'Italia has sent yesterday. Overall, Aspi's proposal is worth 11 billion (3.4 billion in indemnities plus 7.5 billion in plan investments ). The government is aiming for a cut of at least 5% of the tariffs , compensation in Genoa, greater controls











on the network, an acceleration of investments, extraordinary maintenance. At the beginning of the month Aspi had offered 2.8 billion euros. Now the figure should be that requested by the executive of 3.4 billion.

Then there is the issue of the governance of Autostrade per l'Italia. Today Atlantia has 88% of Autostrade, but the holding said it was willing to drop below 50% no longer through a tout court sale of the stake, but with a capital increase of around 3 billion euros to allow it to enter the shareholder base of the "new" Autostrade, Cdp, F2i, Poste Vita and some social security funds.

In this way, moreover, Atlantia would not be forced to sell "under price" Aspi which, due to the Milleproroghe decree , saw its value plummet due to the cut in the compensation to be paid in case of revocation of the concession from 23 billion to 7 If all the boxes go to their place and if the CDM gives the green light to the agreement on Tuesday, the next step will be to finalize the governance of the new company. Otherwise the revocation remains .