The Anpi against the differentiated autonomy of the League: “It cannot contradict the unity and indivisibility of the Republic”

The Anpi against the differentiated autonomy on which the League pushes. “While inflation is rising, interest rates are rising, there are heavy delays in the implementation of the Pnrr, cuts are being made in social spending and gloomy clouds are gathering over the country’s economic and social future which will increase the already serious and worrying inequalities , the theme of differentiated autonomy, as we had foreseen, is occupying more and more space in the political debate”, is what is highlighted in an Odg approved by the Anpi National Committee in the meeting on Saturday 17 December and released today in a note.

“The presentation of the Calderoli enabling bill, which is a pejorative of the previous Gelmini bill in that it plans to still refer to the historical expenditure for the financing of matters delegated to the Regions, even pending the definition of the Lep (essential levels of services), has caused the clearly negative reaction of the southern regions. In fact, in this way they would see their gap from the northern regions maintained and not corrected, which, as certified by the Svimez report, continues to increase. – continues the note from the Anpi – There was no lack of criticism and reservations about the project also in other parts of the country. Mr. Calderoli was therefore forced to downgrade his proposal from a draft law to a draft for discussion. At the same time, Prime Minister Meloni tried to reassure the South by guaranteeing the use of Pnrr funds to bridge territorial inequalities”.

“It is a game of roles which, however, highlights the contradiction between the League’s need to win back the electorate of the north by countering Bossi’s offensive, and FdI’s need to reconfirm its line of national unity in order not to betray one of the cornerstones of its identity and not dissatisfy its important electorate in the South, already disappointed by the reduction in the citizen’s income – continues the Anpi – Meanwhile, the budget law in article 143 provides for the establishment of a control room for the definition of the Lep on the basis of a recognition of the social services of a fundamental nature provided in the regions and of the expenditure referred to them. The Lep thus defined would be adopted by decree of the Prime Minister, on a proposal from the Minister for Regional Affairs and Autonomies, acquired the agreement of the Unified Conference of the Regions, without parliamentary steps”.

“It seems that we are faced with a new acceleration of the process of differentiated regional autonomy against which the National Committee of the PNA reconfirms its negative judgment on an institutional reform which, since it risks widening the inequalities between citizens and territories and breaking national unity by diversifying the social and civil rights of citizens paves the way for an upheaval of the anti-fascist Constitution – continues the Anpi – Therefore the National Committee of the Anpi reiterates that articles 116 and 117 of the Constitution must be interpreted on the basis of article 5 of the same which, in reaffirming the indivisible unity of the Republic, lays the foundations for a solidary and non-competitive regionalism. “.

The Anpi also believes that “the use of Pnrr resources must be constantly monitored so that they are primarily aimed at resolving the gap in social and economic infrastructure between the North-Central and South of the country; the resources assigned to the Regions must be transparent and traceable ; the levels of performance must be uniform and universal and not simply essential for the entire territory of the Republic and must be adequately financed; the Parliament, as owner of the legislative power, must be fully vested with the discussion on matters that can be delegated to the Regions by canceling the State-Regions agreement process; a clause of supremacy of state law should be established for the protection of the national interest; article 143 should be canceled from the budget law”.

“The National Committee also decides to meet associations and political parties in order to reiterate the position of the PNA, to plan joint actions for the mobilization of citizens, to initiate a public reflection on how regionalism has been implemented up to now, on its effectiveness and its impact on municipal autonomy.It also supports the popular initiative bill for the modification of Articles 116 and 117 of the Constitution promoted by Massimo Villone and others, because it contains many of the proposals reported here and can be a useful tool to disseminate them and broaden the debate on differentiated autonomy; therefore urges Anpi members and citizens to sign the bill and to promote awareness of it through public initiatives”, concludes Anpi.