With the approval of this differentiated autonomy, the right to health, the right to environmental protection, the right to education, the right to social welfare benefits are also exposed to risk due to the risk for many Regions of not being able to guarantee them at more than essential levels. of performance!
In reality, the entire system of fundamental rights risks collapse, precisely in those less rich and less equipped regions, with an increase in the gap with the rest of Italy that will be unstoppable and devastating.
A disaster in which everyone contributed, since in the end those who had wanted Italy to secede for years won, pushing the South further and further away from the North.
How could we trust someone like Calderoli who wanted the independence of a strip of Italian land, Padania!
How will President Mattarella promulgate it, after having “criticized” the text of this law only a few weeks ago.
There are too many contradictions in a law text approved in the dark, signed like a blank sheet of paper, which presents serious procedural, insurance coverage, methodological, implementation and identification of standard needs gaps, based on standard costs commensurate with the needs of the individual regions.
Too bad none of this has ever been calculated, analyzed or verified.
In practice, the Southern Regions have taken out a mortgage without demonstrating income capacity and without knowing whether they will have the necessary resources to pay the monthly installments!
In fact, there is no generalized definition of the Lep (i.e. what is necessary for the functioning of the essential levels of performance) and there is no identification by subject that can be transferred to the Regions or subject area of the national standard requirement, obtained from the sum of the regional standard requirements, of which no one cared about.
In this Law the fundamental components have all been postponed to a date to be determined, from the definition of the Lep (which are the essential levels of services that we must guarantee to citizens) and the standard costs/requirements, to the adoption of the respective legislative decrees and, as regards the coverage of expenses relating to annual and three-year budget laws.
This is why we can say that they have managed to divide a nation, where the strongest Regions will establish what will be sufficient to guarantee and what to guarantee and in which part of the nation!
This is because no one yet knows how many resources will be allocated (if they will be allocated) with respect to the individual subjects that will be transferred to the Regions, which will have to support costs and financial coverage, with inevitable cuts on the most expensive subjects, such as healthcare!
And we will have to trust Calderoli who tells us that we will see annually how many resources will be needed, as if it were a question of bruscolini and not of billions of euros, pretending to forget that for years – and therefore in contrast with the forecasts and prospects of this Law on autonomy – have forced all governments to proceed with various financial cuts on health policies, social welfare policies, schools and the environment.
And these tell us that the Regions will have to identify new resources for new skills!
A serious weakness with respect to the implementation of some fundamental rights (health protection, protection of the disabled, the right to education, environmental protection, etc…) which for many Regions will not be possible to guarantee to their citizens, who will not have not even the possibility of obtaining them outside the Region, unless you pay for everything out of your own pocket!
In fact, taking into consideration a Region like Calabria, where its tax revenue is not sufficient to guarantee the essential levels of services (i.e. services and rights that would be excluded for Calabrian citizens), it will have two alternatives: either increase the tax burden and tax on individual inhabitants (more taxes and fewer rights and services), with the need to resort to aggressive activity for the assessment and collection of their own tariffs and taxes, in addition to those also due to the State; or deny the implementation of fundamental rights, such as health and/or social welfare.
It should be added, however, that for those matters where the Law on Autonomy excludes a provision of essential levels of performance, a financial burden will burden the Region due to the need to find – in the already dramatic current situation – sufficient resources to be able to implement rights and services to citizens, which are already largely not guaranteed today despite the lower burdens and costs!
Given this insurmountable framework, this Law on differentiated autonomy cannot be implemented, unless we want to exclude essential rights and services for a large part of the citizens.
Faced with this unfortunate approval of the Law on Differentiated Autonomy (or differentiated regionalism), all that will remain is to promote a repeal referendum.
What the people (particularly those living in the Deep South) did not want and what someone wanted to impose, the people will have to dismantle.
Antonello Talerico – Regional Councilor
Giorgio Arcuri – Catanzaro City Councillor
Antonio Borelli – Catanzaro City Councilor
Giuseppina Pino – Catanzaro City Councilor
Francesco Assisi – Catanzaro City Councilor
Antonio Barberio – Catanzaro City Councilor
Manuela Costanzo – Catanzaro City Councilor
Rosario Lostumbo – Catanzaro City Councilor
Giulia Procopi – Catanzaro City Councilor
Francesco Scarpino – Catanzaro City Councilor
