The general discussion on the bill which should change the institutional structures and increase the degree of autonomy of the Regions is scheduled for today in the Senate. A theme, that of differentiated autonomy, which gives rise to lively clashes.
The opposition leaders in the streets together with the mayors speak of a "bomb that will split the country", while the majority displays tranquility and repeats that "the essential levels of services will be ensured everywhere".
In fact, a large part of the guarantee on maintaining the uniformity of public services, from healthcare to transport, from school to civil protection, passes precisely through the "Lep", i.e. that «core of services to be provided uniformly throughout the national territory in order to guarantee the protection of civil and social rights".
Sardinia "will only have advantages, more services and more resources will be guaranteed", says Dario Giagoni, Sardinian deputy of the League, the party of the "father" of the reform, the minister Roberto Calderoli.
What does the reform consist of? The law on autonomy has been defined as a "purely procedural" law, which should simply implement the modification of Title V of the Constitution in force since 2001. In 10 articles it defines the path to reach an agreement between the State and those Regions that ask for differentiated autonomy.
«All this will be the tombstone of insularity and destroys the possibility of equalizing infrastructural imbalances», warns Marco Meloni, senator of the Democratic Party. «The reform will reduce the resources available to the central state, already limited by the Stability Pact, and therefore there will no longer be money for the islands. I don't understand how the Sardinian parliamentarians, a few weeks before the elections, can approve this bill which is yet another intervention against the south and against the islands."
Michele Ruffi
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