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 Calderoli continues determined to prevent parliament from passing and, in

violation of the law, wants to have differentiated autonomy approved and
implemented by decree . The strategy of the Northern League exponent is well
summarized by the press release from Palazzo Chigi which informs us that the
Council of Ministers has «defined the technical and political path to arrive, in
one of the next sessions, at the preliminary approval of the bill on
differentiated autonomy ». ---- Everything revolves around the provisions of the
fifth title of the Constitution interconnected with the procedures for its
revision. In particular, the art. 116, third paragraph, states: «Further forms
and particular conditions of autonomy, concerning the matters referred to in the
third paragraph of article 117 and the matters indicated in the second paragraph
of the same article under letters l, limited to the organization of justice of
the peace , n and s, they can be attributed to other regions, with State law, on
the initiative of the region concerned, having consulted the local authorities,
in compliance with the principles set out in article 119. The law is approved by
the Chambers with an absolute majority of the members, on the basis of an
agreement between the State and the region concerned". It is true that it is a
mere faculty and not a constitutional obligation, which cannot be detached from
the relationship between constitutional bodies and citizens' rights as outlined
in the constitutional text, but if the Regions obtained full competence in all
matters of competence competitor and in matters of exclusive competence of the
State (general rules on education, protection of the environment, ecosystem and
cultural heritage), the rule that defines the boundaries between the powers of
the State and those of the Regions would be surreptitiously overturned, without
resorting to the procedure of revision of the Constitution, pursuant to art. 138.
The equality of citizens would certainly be jeopardized, in open contrast to the
fundamental principle set out in art. 3. An emblematic example is offered by
education where the possibility of attributing to the Regions the competence over
the general rules clashes with the provision contained in the art. 33, which
instead states that: «The Republic dictates the general rules on education».
If the shift of legislative competence from the State to the Regions were
implemented for everything concerning the fundamental choices relating to the
production system and civil life such as education, transport, communications,
energy networks, working conditions and of workers, ecology, the environment,
health, instead of one legislative discipline we will have twenty, each with
territorial effectiveness limited to the regional territory. It follows, for
example, that instead of the collective labor agreement, wage cages will be
restored; faced with a new pandemic, it will be impossible for us to determine
common prophylaxis rules. It will not be possible to plan an energy policy for
the ecological transition and the decarbonisation of the economy. Furthermore,
Furthermore, the strong differences in the provision of benefits concerning civil
and social rights, especially in a situation of austerity such as the current
one, impose the need to find an acceptable point of balance on the quality and
costs of essential services and benefits for all, it would require the
mobilization of huge resources that are hard to find. The need to proceed with
the determination of the LEP would be a necessary prerequisite for being able to
attribute to the Regions the resources necessary for the exercise of the new
powers transferred by the State.
It could be objected that this was done by inserting a dozen paragraphs into the
budget law which provide for an accelerated procedure which, by December 2023,
should lead to the determination of the LEP, which will take place with a decree
of the President of the Council of Ministers violating the procedure established
by the Constitution. Which is that, on the whole, differentiated autonomy
definitively liquidates everything that is "public", and therefore aimed at the
general interest, destined to diminish the differences between rich and poor.
Thus the principles and social rights envisaged in the first part of the
Constitution are de facto cancelled, opening prairies to extend to privatization
in every sector and to regional labor contracts.

The accomplices in implementing differentiated autonomy

The conditions for all this to happen were created by the left and the Democratic
Party in particular by promoting the reform of Title V of the constitution with
stubborn strength, determination and arrogance, which was approved with the
difference of only one vote with respect to the necessary quorum, creating the
previous that the Constitution could be reformed with such small majorities.
The fact is that the party with a majority vocation, born from the Veltronian
fantasy that shows the limits of the motivations that underlie it; he believed he
was the eternal occupier of the institutions, an eternal governing party, a
belief that instead will lead him to extinction without anyone's regrets. It is
the catholic communist legacy which demonstrates its failure when it is happening
and is liquidated by history and by them voters. All Italians pay the price,
starting with the poorest ones. These are the real reasons for the final crisis
of the PD.
To respond to this attack, the popular classes and all the forces of the left are
in the worst possible condition. The Coordination for Constitutional Democracy
has remained one of the few bodies that opposes the project through a popularly
proposed law containing alternative proposals to that of the government, but this
is certainly not enough, nor can we rely on the resistance emerging among the
governors of the southern regions including those elected by the right, worried
by the impoverishment of the living conditions of the populations of the
territories governed by them. It is necessary to create a strong mass movement
that blocks the legislative process, first of all by putting pressure on the
self-styled parliamentary opposition so that there is no negotiation or mediation
on this issue.
This result can only be obtained on condition that information on differentiated
autonomy grows and develops, clarifying the lack of actuality and interest in its
implementation also for the northern regions of the country.

Differentiated autonomy: a false goal for the north of the country

The differentiated autonomy for the northern regions of the country, in addition
to finding its motivations in options relating to the form of state and
government that has always been present in the country and which animated the
1947 Constituent Assembly, derives from an economic evaluation of the productive
capacities of the regions of northern Italy made possible by their anchorage to
the productive area of Germany, particularly strong in the last 30 years.
It is our opinion that the ongoing Ukrainian war and the post-Covid economic
crisis are profoundly modifying the economic and development axes, the neural
lines of the economic system by transferring the energy hubs to the south of the
country, both in terms of terminals for access to energy supply areas as well as
wind and solar energy production areas. This implies the need for state-supported
nationwide investments that the twenty mini-states that differentiated autonomy
would create are unable to address. The pandemic has also shown that the
territories need to centralize resources to better manage the economy and
services rather than pulverize them in a differentiated way.
In essence, the train of territorial autonomy as functional to development and
the economy has passed due to the new arrangements that international exchanges,
economic relations and neural energy supply lines are taking on and therefore
those territories that would benefit today autonomy risk being damaged in the future.

John Ledi

http://www.ucadi.org/2023/02/01/dimmi-dove-vivi-e-ti-diro-che-diritti-avrai/
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