The Veneto Region has asked the government to reopen negotiations to obtain differentiated autonomy. Requests for greater autonomy were immediately made in the 9 “non-Lep” subjects, i.e. those for which it is not necessary for the State to first establish the Essential Levels of Performance. In the letter to Prime Minister Meloni, Governor Zaia asked to add, for an initial investigation of the more complex attribution profiles, also the subjects for which the Lep are necessary, which are the subject of the 2018 pre-agreement, i.e. labor policies, education, health, environmental and ecosystem protection. “We are willing to twin with a Southern Region and test this system so that inequalities go away” added Zaia.
Letter sent to Prime Minister Meloni and Minister Calderoli
The letter that the governor of Veneto formally signed at the end of the press conference in which he announced the restart of negotiations with the government for differentiated autonomy is addressed to Prime Minister Meloni and Minister Calderoli. “The first objective is to bring home those delegated functions of the nine non-LEP subjects that can be managed in a decentralized form” explained Zaia. Among these four will be those already the result of the pre-agreement with the then Gentiloni government at the end of 2017, because the fifth, the school, is instead subject to the Lep. On Autonomy “we will ask for the nine non-Lep subjects with their related functions but the contents will be the result of a gradual negotiation with no escape forward on our part. It will be a great test for everyone, not just for us. I hope that this first the negotiation phase can be closed with a draft agreement by the end of the year. However, we already have all the dossiers ready for each matter”, explained the Venetian governor Luca Zaia.
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“One of the functions – specified Zaia – could be to give the President of the Region the possibility of being a civil protection authority, which he already is, but also of being able to issue ordinances in derogation. Veneto is ready; we have created 23 each dossier for each subject. This allows us to be able to negotiate with full knowledge of the facts and to bring a proposal for differentiated autonomy for the Veneto that is responsible, and above all that is close to the citizens”. He then recalled that “the approved law provides that the essential levels of performance are defined within 24 months, and so it will be. From that moment on we will also have the opportunity to deal with the last 14 subjects”. Finally, Zaia reiterated that “it is the governor’s corporate purpose to have more skills to give answers to his citizens”.
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“We will be willing to immediately twin with a Southern Region, and test this autonomy together, because this is truly the challenge. Let’s make sure that the inequalities go away.” The president of Veneto Luca Zaia told journalists this. The closure of the agreement on differentiated autonomy within the year, added Zaia, “will allow us to start again with the negotiations and to at least think about starting to negotiate on the first nine subjects not subject to the Lep, such as Civil Protection for example” .
