«It will increase the gaps in our country» – BitontoLive.it

L’differentiated autonomy continues to inflame public debate. Yesterday there Caravan of Rights of the Flc Cgil stopped in Bitonto in Piazza Aldo Moro, to explain the risks of the Calderoli bill.

«It goes exactly in the opposite direction compared to our Constitution – he said Domenico Ficcosecretary of the CGIL Bari – And undermines the unity of our country, acts on divisions. It is a bill that gives the Regions the possibility to ask for greater autonomy on twenty-three matters… it is essentially giving those who are closest to the citizens of the State, i.e. the Regions and Municipalities, the possibility of acting differently from the divisions of what our Constitution says. We are a country of solidarity in which the territories help each other and do not compete. It is an even unconstitutional project».

«We have to dispel a myth: ldifferentiated autonomy – has explained Vito Fumaisecretary Flc Cgil Bari – it’s not just the Calderoli bill, which regulates only the final part of autonomy. It has precise roots: it comes from the end of the 2000s and the League was the first to propose it. The problem of differentiated autonomy is not even the north against the south, it is a mistake to think like that. When there is autonomy, disparities will be created between the big cities and the suburbs, between the mountain areas and the rest of the regions. There are three regions that have requested differentiated autonomy. But there are eight to follow. Including regions that had started the procedures at his time, had given the green light to the presidents to activate the process of differentiated autonomy».

The mayor of Bari and metropolitan and national president of Anci participated in the debate in the square in Bitonto Antonio Decaro. «I am always been against it – he has declared – not only to differentiated autonomy but also to the reform of Title V of the Constitution which was my political part. Differentiated autonomy will increase the gaps in our country, it also gives the idea of ​​a fractured country and certainly does not follow the principles of our Constitution, which provides that rights and services must be equal throughout the national territory regardless of where each of us is born or decides to go and live. Among these there is also the right to education which cannot be different from region to region. Franco Cassano said that true autonomy is the autonomy of thought. The south must start thinking for itself and we are doing this here tonight. We are thinking about it ourselves, we are thinking about our communities and above all we are thinking about the new generations and we will fight to prevent this law from going ahead and further dividing a country which fortunately with the Constitution and the Republic was born as a united, free country and democratic”.

The mayor of Bitonto concluded the public meeting Francesco Paolo Ricci. «We have to be all responsible and above all aware of the danger we are facing. They want the desertification of cities – he warned– they want fewer services, fewer rights to health, education and therefore canteens, services for disabled children. The municipalities will no longer have resources. The Bank of Italy has cast serious doubt on differentiated autonomy, defining it as a bill without a very precise analysis of real data but above all of the repercussions that this bill has on local authorities and territorial authorities. I believe that in a national government, in a national government’s agenda, the priority must be labor policies. The priority must be education. The priority must be research policy in the university. What is this government’s priority? The differentiated division. Making sure that the southern regions are increasingly poorer creates a dispute, a gap between the rich and the poor. The rich will become richer and the poor will become poorer.”.