“Periodically the issue of the Regions' sharing in the revenues deriving from so-called legitimate gambling comes back to the fore of the political debate. Currently it seems that the Government intends to accept the proposal put forward in this sense by the Unified State-Regions Conference as part of the opinion presented on the legislative decree for the reorganization of online gaming at the end of January, reiterated by the Conference of Regions in the hearing in the Senate , with the request for a sharing of 5% of the revenue from the slot machines to the Regions and Local Authorities. This request is of an unprecedented gravity and out of context, since slot machines are part of physical gaming, while this part of the reorganization only concerns online gaming". Thus in a note Massimo Borghi, Regional Coordinator for Tuscany of the association "Public Notice of Regions and Municipalities against mafias and corruption".
“Believing that you can make money from an instrument like gambling means not thinking and not understanding the desperation of hundreds of thousands of citizens, it also means fueling a pathological spiral which has already thrown many families into poverty who end up turning to local social services. A choice which, in fact, would dismantle years of work by hundreds of associations, including Notice Publico, and operators engaged in the Third Sector in reducing the damage of gambling addiction and combating illegal practices linked to gambling, is considered paradoxical and counterproductive. both physical and online gaming. The Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of the Republic have been informed of the limits of the action being undertaken and the disastrous effects that will befall citizens. We hope that the Government does not accept this wicked proposal which would further worsen a reorganization mandate that the sector's own business associations have judged to be wrong and ill-conceived", concludes Borghi.
