«You preferred the bridge to us»

«I believe that we need to take steps forward, the South has not been able to eliminate the gap with the North for 100 years, perhaps even more. It is possible that working on an autonomy that puts everyone in competition to do better will help the South. I don’t know if we will succeed, I know that so far all other attempts have failed.” The president of the Senate Ignazio La Russa said this at the FdI event in Pescara. «Premiership and autonomy… let’s see how it ends. I hope it ends very well, if it ends very badly we would have done half of what you have done so far”, says La Russa, interviewed by Bianca Berlinguer, addressing the left. Autonomy «we trust that it is a way to rebalance the differences between North and South, we will see. Autonomy does not affect the Constitution, it is an ordinary law, if it doesn’t work another ordinary law will fix it, but at the moment we trust that it is a way to rebalance the differences between North and South, we will see…”.