(Jamma) After repeatedly requesting the intervention of Minister De Girolamo to resolve the bureaucratic and technical problems that the Ministry he heads is encountering in carrying out the process of paying State debts to the horse racing sector, we are witnessing a simple but disheartening and tragic reality: the State - declared Enrico Tuci of the Italian Horse Racing Entrepreneurs - is not able to pay invoices duly issued by creditor citizens.
Historic and important companies in the Italian horse racing tradition such as i Botti have not yet received payment of the January 2013 premiums. release of our money.
In fact, horse racing, already an Italian excellence, does not ask for its debt to be paid with state resources, but only to receive the money that is the fruit of the work of the sector itself, but which, after the abolition of the Assi institution, is unfortunately flowed into the coffers of the state, to get lost here among bureaucracy, poor management and who knows what other dark meanders.
It is evident at this point that the Ministry is lying; as well as not being able to carry out his job in carrying out the practices that concern us.
After all, when the working day at the Ministry ends at 16.00 or earlier (unfortunately we know this well given the countless phone calls in which the phone rang without a hitch) we cannot expect things to work as they do in a civilized country.
We very much regret the fact that all the official communications sent to the Ministry by various means of communication: registered letters, telegrams, emails, open letters, have remained unheard and without the slightest response, even if only formal.
We have asked in vain that an internal procedure be initiated to verify the personal responsibilities of the enormous disservices that cause the daily bankruptcies of companies that do not receive the money they are due.
We have not even been able to find out the name of who is in charge of the procedure with which payments should be processed, to understand, for once, who to blame for responsibilities that usually go unpunished.
Ours is a deaf state, or one that doesn't want to hear: what if it was a private individual who behaved like this?
All of this is absurd: a state that gets into debt with its own citizens is absurd; a State that has not paid the debts it has contracted (for almost a year) to Italians who, if paid, could produce employment and salaries with these debts, is unworthy of being called such. In the light of all this, - concludes Tuci - of a crisis that bites deeper and deeper, and of a clear incapacity of the institutions to manage the difficult moment so much as to induce people to commit suicide, a State that does not listen or even lies to its citizens it deserves nothing, but it will continue to forcefully impose itself on all of us, until there is no one left, at least as far as horse racing is concerned”.
