We are somewhat concerned about the enthusiasm of the mayor of Santa Marinella for the approval of the Calderoli law on differentiated regional autonomy. As a committee that has been fighting for years against what we believe to be a real disgrace for our country, the mayor’s interview on June 21 on Talk Tv raises a series of questions.
Has Tidei followed the analyses on the issue that professors, constitutionalists, intellectuals and scholars have been carrying out for years? We think that he has not read even a single line of what constitutionalists like Villone, Azzariti, professors like Viesti, Fassina write on the consequences of the implementation of art. 116.3 of the Constitution and of the law implementing differentiated autonomy.
Did the mayor follow the path of his party, the PD, which began with attention to the demands of the League on differentiated autonomy, up to the rejection and opposition in Parliament and in the streets of this “splitting Italy” project?
Mayor Tidei is not interested in the fact that this law divides Italy into many small states (differentiated regions), creating disparities in the enjoyment of civil, social and economic rights between citizens who live in different regions; that healthcare is totally regionalized and the rich regions (which finance the system through commuting from the south) offer more efficient services to their citizens and better salaries for staff, desertifying the south: an aggressive and selfish autonomy against the idea of solidarity which is in our Constitution.
No interest in the regionalization of public schools, the education system that holds our Republic together. What interests the mayor of Santa Marinella?
He is interested in the fact that an autonomous and differentiated Lazio Region, which does not exist in reality and is yet to come, this hypothetical region, according to article 6 of the Calderoli law, can attribute administrative functions to municipalities, provinces and metropolitan areas. According to Tidei, the new region (?) burdened by the decision-making and management “load of work” that the State has transferred, will be forced to delegate important tasks to the provinces. This is why Tidei works so hard to create this new coastal province.
What is your basic idea if, always according to the Calderoli law, art.8, the new functions transferred to local authorities must not represent greater burdens on public finances?
So currently the situation is this: there is no autonomous Lazio region, there is no coastal province but above all, if there were, there would be no extra MONEY.
What reassures us is that the new mayor of Civitavecchia, Marco Piendibene, has always been at our side in the initiatives against differentiated autonomy.
Differentiated autonomy must be rejected completely, radically. It is not an opportunity to be seized as Mayor Tidei writes, boasting of being able to draw non-existent advantages from it.
