WORLD WORLDWIDE ITALY - news journal UPDATE - (en) Italy, UCADI #182: Italy: dress rehearsal of the dissolution of the state (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

The approach of the European elections and many regional elections has
led the governing majority parties to take the first parliamentary steps
towards the project for the implementation of differentiated autonomy
which will establish the differentiation of the country into 21
microstates. It is certainly true that the implementation of
differentiated autonomy is foreseen in the Constitution in the forms
hypothesized by an infamous constitutional reform, desired by the
left(?), and approved in 2001 with only 3 majority votes. But it is also
true that since then a lot of water has passed under the bridge and the
economic conditions that made it convenient to face and attempt to
resolve the problem of greater political and economic representation
consistent with the role played by the northern regions in the country's
economy, they are deeply pointed.
The profound crisis of the German economy and of Franco-Rhine capitalism
makes it no longer attractive to connect the economy of Veneto and
Lombardy, but also of Emilia Romagna, to the German locomotive that is
stopped on the tracks.
Today Germany is in recession, wrapped in the spirals of a crisis in the
economic and production model that will not be resolved anytime soon and
this while Italy's production axes are gravitating towards a widespread
presence of production activities in the territory, greater than in the
past. Not only that, but for a long time energy supply flows will travel
from south to north and not vice versa. It therefore becomes contrary to
the interests of the economy to aim for a multi-speed country, depending
on the areas into which it is administratively divided and governed.
Indeed, the time seems to have come to make the country system the
backbone of its overall development, aiming for greater integration with
the economy of other European countries which owe their strength
precisely to the choice to operate by creating a system of capital and
forces and production capacities they have. All this is even more true
if we look at Africa as one of the possible poles of future development,
considering the geographical position of Italy and its conformation in
the Mediterranean.
Instead, right now, in accordance with an ideological choice of a party
that has focused everything on the autonomy and fragmentation of the
country, it is decided to opt for a political exchange between the party
that on paper should be the defender of national unity (F.d I .) and
what wants the end of the unitary state (League), in any possible form,
accepting the exchange between differentiated autonomy and the adoption
of the premiership, a silly and stupid government formula, clearly
unsuccessful (it was tested in Israel for a short time , with failure)
and immediately repealed, but it serves to revive the myth of the strong
man-woman in command.

The debate in the Senate

 From the debate on differentiated autonomy that took place in the
Senate on 23 January on the Calderoli bill[1]it emerges that its
implementation would in fact constitute a profound modification of the
national institutional framework, inaugurating a different system of
relationships and hierarchies of values concerning the implementation of
rights and freedoms, which undermines the principle of equality, making
the governing bodies of the territory assume growing importance, in
relation to their implementation, (the Regions) mortifying and leaving
unchanged the role of the Municipalities which are the structures that
are truly closer and more functional to land management.
The provision arises from the request of Veneto, Lombardy and
Emilia-Romagna for legislative power for the current matters of
concurrent legislation and/or for three of those of exclusive competence
of the State and is part of an institutional context which has already
seen the Regions try to carve out ever greater skills.
It is also true that the aspect that gives rise to greatest concern
today concerns the greater transfer of financial resources connected to
differentiated autonomy, proof of which is that if the request were
accepted, Veneto would retain 90% of the tax revenue produced by its
citizens and resident businesses on its territory, equal to
approximately 41 billion; Lombardy, over 100 billion, Emilia-Romagna, 43
billion, for an amount of 190 out of 750 billion per year in tax
revenue. However, the most important effect of the reform would
certainly be the expansion of the sphere of intervention and competences
of the Regions and the growth of their powers even in matters apparently
not involved in the transfer, and this precisely because of the acquired
control over resources.

Examining the proposal presented by the Government, in light of the
changes made in the referring body, we note that it is made up of 11
articles. Article 1 indicates the purposes of the regulatory
intervention; Article 2 establishes a clause limiting agreements by the
Prime Minister to ensure national cohesion; Article 3 strengthens the
role of Parliament in determining the LEP; Article 4 guarantees the
equality of LEPs throughout the national territory; articles 5 and 6
respectively regulate the methods of the agreement and the transfer of
functions from the Regions to local authorities; Article 7 contains a
state supremacy clause: Article 8 concerns the Joint Commission for
evaluating the burdens deriving from the delegation of functions to the
Regions; Article 9 establishes that the agreements must not prejudice
the amount of resources to be allocated to the other Regions; Article 10
contains a guarantee rule for national unity and social cohesion;
finally, article 11 contains transitional provisions - we refer to the
latest version made known by Minister Calderoli.
It should be remembered that the Regions' requests for matters to be
transferred are partly different and in any case include the transfer of
legislative powers and financial resources. Veneto has requested all 23
matters envisaged by article 116 paragraph 3 of the Constitution;
Lombardy 20 (excluding only: the organization of justice of peace;
savings banks, rural banks, regional credit companies; regional land and
agricultural credit institutions), Emilia-Romagna 16 (did not request:
professions; food; civil ports and airports; organization of
communication; production, transport and national distribution of
energy; savings banks, rural, regional credit institutions; regional
land and agricultural credit institutions). Subsequently, Campania also
requested that the investigation be started for some matters. These
subjects are added to and strengthen the competences already attributed
to the Regions, helping to consolidate the trend towards a different
application on the territory, today the result of the different
political capacities of regional governments to implement the choices
adopted by the State.
To these matters the Regions may request to add other matters currently
under the exclusive competence of the State: jurisdiction and procedural
rules; civil and criminal law; administrative justice limited to the
organization of justice of the peace; general rules on education;
protection of the environment, ecosystem and cultural heritage, also
differentiating the country's legislation and problem management in
these fields.
The start of the debate on differentiated autonomy in the Senate has
shown that growing doubts are emerging on the part of some political
forces regarding the process of attribution of competences to the
Regions that request it, which is reflected in actions that the Regions
not involved in the transfer process could undertake to protect their
interests and fair distribution and use of resources.
To oppose the provision, in a first phase the Regional Councils of some
Regions could appeal primarily to the Consulta, once the text of the
reform is definitively approved by the two Chambers. In the next phase,
having taken note of the outcome of these initiatives, the agreements
will have to be drawn up to establish the extent and concrete methods of
the transfer of competences. This phase of the procedure could and will
certainly be the subject of an appeal before the Constitutional Court.
Alongside and together with the opposition to the measure, which can be
developed by the regional councils of the regions not involved in the
process of differentiated autonomy, there is also an initiative that can
be undertaken by citizens by collecting 500,000 signatures, to ask for
the repeal referendum to be called of the reform, provided that
the government itself does not have to resort to a confirmatory
referendum, once the majority with which the measure will be approved is
known. From a quick calculation of the numbers present in Parliament,
this referendum step appears inevitable for the government majority.
Having said this, all that remains is to refine one's weapons and
prepare for a long and hard battle on which the success of the project
of creating a political regime which, by distorting the Constitution,
will realize the dream of the right in government which will be able to
say, in case of success, of governing a Republic that is no longer the
one born from the Resistance.

The exchange with the premiership

This statement would be strengthened by the implementation, as a result
of the political exchange carried out between the government parties, of
the prime ministership which, by centralizing powers on the Prime
Minister in such a significant way as to obscure those of the head of
State, would allow it to be argued that a new Republic was born.
In the Prime Minister's intentions, the new power structure should hand
over control of the country to her political force for a sufficient
number of legislatures to shape a new structure of the State and Italian
society, rewriting the distribution of citizens between the social
classes and recreating a medium, built on the basis of newly minted
corporate relations, all under the banner of "Italians first", smuggled
as a version of politics of the so-called social right.
This project does not take into account the fact that the current Prime
Minister has demonstrated that he has as his horizon a liberalism that
tends towards democracy, which is in turn also different from
corporatism, because it surpasses it in brutality, promoting a society
flattened on obscurantist values typical of the "theology of prosperity"
formulated by American Protestantism, intertwined with the theorizations
of a fundamentalist, sick Christian sociology.

[1]Outline of the bill, Provisions for the implementation of
differentiated autonomy, of the Regions with ordinary statute, 1
February 2023,
https://www.arancioscuola.it/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Autonomia-Differenziatadef.pdf

The Editorial Team

https://www.ucadi.org/2024/02/17/italia-prove-generali-di-dissoluzione-dello-stato/
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