Thursday, December 17, 2009

Swollen Toungue, Soar Throat

CRISIS AND RECESSION UNDER THE TREE

SORRENTO. Giunta, Fiorentino resigns and announces: I am applying for mayor. Traffic, falling sales and tourist trade in knee

Sorrento. Air storm in the town hall where Mayor Mark Fiorentino is facing a terminal crisis, he sees the disintegration of the Executive view of administrative next year and the worsening economic recession in the vicinity of the holiday season is putting on her knees merchants of the city. Not least, the situation which saw the seizure of the nursery and primary school "Vittorio Veneto" by the prosecutor of Torre Annunziata, a measure that forced 600 students and 47 teachers and staff to break up the territory, which has caused a veritable earthquake within the municipal administration. The decision comes more striking by the deputy mayor Rosario Fiorentino with a letter to the mayor announces his resignation due to the sudden absence and sharing projects. In parallel with the resignation of the deputy mayor declares his intention to run for mayor of Sorrento role in elections next spring that will call at Sorrento polls. The dock also the Christmas program and discussed the order of traffic, two issues will be addressed in a meeting with mayor and councilors. Economic crisis and employment and total lack of tourists in the city completes the picture of a Christmas that has crippled dozens of merchants. Three ready lists, "Together for Sorrento", "Youth for Sorrento," "We love to Sorrento", which will support the deputy mayor has resigned his candidature in Rosario Fiorentino to the mayor. With Rosario Fiorentino also Ascom makes its voice heard in front of a claimed reality of recession that saw the biggest hotels in Sorrento dismiss and lay off dozens of employees, declines in sales in stores with a peak in some cases between 60% and 80% over the forecast for next January Sorrento with many companies at risk of closure. This is the context of the hotly contested ordinance on Christmas traffic plan that initially provided the complete closure until the day of the Epiphany in Italy during the stretch between Piazza Tasso and Vico II outside and suddenly withdrawn yesterday afternoon when a new order issued around 17 came to appease the anger of the traders. The new measure includes the total closure of the Course Italy only for Sundays and public holidays from Monday to Friday and block traffic from Piazza Tasso will be from 15 to 24. The only authorized vehicles can move at walking pace along the Via Tasso is established the two-way traffic in the stretch between Piazza della Vittoria and so the Academy, with the obligation to turn towards Via San Nicola for vehicles coming from Piazza della Vittoria. Absolute prohibition of transit between the decumano the historical center of Via San Cesareo and Via Pietà over Italy while the ordinance provides for two-way traffic is reserved exclusively for residents and holders of parking space, with the ban, however, access to the course Italy.
OF VINCENT MARESCA the newspaper ROME 17.12.2009

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