(ANSA) - Parma, February 19 - A local administrator on
Tuesday threatened to appear before the official Rome residence
of the President of the Republic in just his underpants in
protest over the new local council rubbish tax (Tares)
introduced by the technocrat government led by Mario Monti.
Luigi Lucchi, mayor of Berceto in the province of Parma,
said he would make the unusual protest in Piazza del Quirinale
on March 22 after sending a long letter to President Giorgio
Napolitano in which he threatened to resign.
"The protest is to stave off the closure of bars and
restaurants which will see their costs skyrocket under the new
tax," he explained, adding that such businesses would see their
costs more than triple.
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