“This year too, as in 2022, during the Christmas holidays Naples will risk being left in the dark due to the inability of the relevant bodies, namely the Chamber of Commerce and the Municipality, who have not reached an agreement for the lighting of the lights”.
Achille Capone, provincial secretary of Claai, the association for crafts and small and medium-sized businesses in Campania, declared this in a note. «In February 2022, the Chamber of Commerce started with a “megagalactic” project that was to involve the Municipality of Naples and the Metropolitan City – Capone recalls – which envisaged a total investment of 5 million euros and was to materialize under the artistic direction of Lello Esposito.
After various vicissitudes, never fully explained, the entity in Piazza Bovio launched, on its own, its own tender procedure that went deserted. Not content - the note continues - it proceeded with a further initiative, in the month of October, for the installation of 10 Christmas trees in various city squares, but this too turned out to be a flop. The whole thing was resolved with a bureaucratic resolution, without analyzing in the slightest the reason why those tenders had gone deserted».
The provincial secretary Claai still remembers “the memorandum of understanding that the Chamber of Commerce signed last August with the Municipality to create the 2023 Christmas lights. But last October 24, the Chamber Board decided to withdraw from that agreement due to the lack of response to a note sent to Palazzo San Giacomo on October 10”.
“The consequence is that this year too, major projects fade away with “bureaucratic notes” and without a minimum of analysis – Capone underlines -. There's more. The Chamber of Commerce announced, with a resolution of the Board, that it will replace the traditional Christmas lights with "little houses", a Santa Claus Village and some dinners.
For some time now, the organization has been announcing mammoth projects that it then fails to implement. Yet, both the organization and the Municipality are careful not to provide even a minimum of logical explanation for the whole affair. Moral of the story: Naples is full of tourists, but risks being left without lights due to the incompetence of the institutions in charge”.
Article published on November 13, 2023 - 17:03
