“Today is a funereal day for Basilicata, for the South and for the whole country.
During the long and troubled night that has just passed, the centre-right majority approved the Calderoli bill (dll) on differentiated autonomy. A bill that impoverishes state coffers and subtracts several billion from the public budget. The latter sums are used for the benefit of the community for the management of matters of fundamental importance, such as health, education, energy and infrastructure”. To affirm it Alessia Araneo And Viviana Verriregional councilor of the M5s Basilicata.
“A bill that perpetrates yet another slap in the face of the South and which risks decreeing the extinction of Basilicata, the most demographically vulnerable region of the South – add Araneo and Verri – Brothers of Italy, after having hoarded votes in the South , betrays his much vaunted homeland and sells the South to the Northern League in exchange for the premiership. An ignoble barter to the detriment of our region and all the disadvantaged areas of the country: those who already possess more resources will have even more and those who already possess little will have less and less”.
“A decidedly unconstitutional bill, which violates the principles of solidarity and cohesion at the basis of our Constitution. The person who signed, among others, this death sentence for the South – which does not need ordinary political initiatives, but rather extraordinary ones – was the newly re-elected president Vito Bardi. Vito Bardi who, before being re-nominated for the presidency of the Basilicata Region, in defiance of the discussion held in the regional council, said Yes to Giorgia Meloni’s scandalous proposal, probably in the hope of not being questioned as leader of the Region itself. Today, having won the elections, he celebrates the “success” of the centre-right, but deplores, very timidly, the acceleration of the parliamentary process. Perhaps, it was his Calabrian counterpart Occhiuto who determined the conscientious scruple, who instead raised some objections to the bill. But if the Calabrian parliamentarians voted against the Calderoli bill, it is good to know that – with the sole exception of the Honorable Lomuti – the other Lucanian parliamentarians Caiata, Mattia and Rosa voted yes to the condemnation of Basilicata. With all due respect to the great southerners who defended this land with their bare hands, the Lucanian representatives of the right have capitulated and sold off Basilicata.
Fortunately, however, our region is much more and we are certain of the fact that the M5s, together with all the other oppositions, the civic and associative forces of our territory will be able to do what certain politics has stopped doing: protect the rights of Lucanian community and safeguard the cohesion of the country”, conclude the five-star councilors.
