Motorway companies are thinking of asking for a tariff adjustment for the missed collections, due to the loss of traffic due to Covidl9. Motorists, on the other hand, would be thinking of forming associations to make a request for compensation for the slowdowns from traffic that the construction sites on the highway are producing and which have reduced long stretches of motorway similar to obstacle courses.
In all this, the government, writes Ansa, does not accept the ultimatum of Atlantia which threatens to suspend the 14,5 billion in investments promised by the subsidiary Autostrade per l'Italia until the state guarantees on the 1,25 billion in loans requested arrive.
The affair shakes the majority. The 5S are among the most critical and attack the minister of transport of the Democratic Party Paola De Micheli, whose dossier - to tell them - has not been seen by anyone. Atlantia reports the "serious damages" caused by the context of "uncertainty" due to the failure to decide on the revocation of the concession and the "serious financial strain" for the various downgrades decided after the Milleproroghe.
The 5S with Deputy Development Minister Buffagni have already said no to the public guarantee.
The Deputy Minister of Infrastructure, Giancarlo Cancelleri he speaks of blackmail and then turns to the other majority forces, Pd and Iv, urging them to close this affair with the revocation: "We are wasting time revoking concessions, this is not serious people".
The deputy minister grillino already has the solution, a sort of trump card: "We have a plan, to directly commission Aspi ”and replace Spea with Anas.
His minister is also targeted by Cancellieri, Paola De Micheli. The deputy minister claims that the file on the Aspi affair, "nobody knows, neither the M5s, nor other government forces, nor Conte". Sources at MIT, on the other hand, claim that the dossier has already been "completed" and sent to the Prime Minister to start the confrontation "before the decision that will take place in the Council of Ministers.
Atlantia defends itself. "No ultimatum", Then he remembers the 9 letters sent since January to all the institutional actors involved and which still remain without a formal response" on any of the highlighted points or proposals made "and the two years spent waiting for a decision on the concession.
Then there is the problem of the loan. Atlantia points out that the 13 billion that Aspi will have to collect for the next 6 years for investment, maintenance and repayment of maturing debts, "represent 10 times the value of the loan". Atlantia also trusts in a "rapid overcoming of the deadlock", declaring itself certain that no institutional actor wants to deliberately damage a large company in the country, which employs 13.500 employees in Italy alone ".
Italia Viva claims that a company like Atlantia cannot be killed and Aspi must have access to credit.