The meeting promoted by Spi Cgil Basilicata on differentiated autonomy, entitled “Differentiated autonomy and premiership. History of a society that is falling”, will be held on Monday 1 July at 5 pm at the Park Hotel in Potenza. After greetings from the general secretary of Cgil Basilicata, Fernando Mega, the general secretary of Spi Cgil Basilicata, Angelo Summa, will introduce the proceedings and will open the round table moderated by the parliamentary correspondent of Domani, Daniela Preziosi.
Participants will include Gaetano Azzariti, full professor of Constitutional Law at La Sapienza University of Rome; Roberto Fico, former President of the Chamber; Christian Ferrari, national secretary of Cgil; Rosy Bindi, former Minister of Health and Family; Tania Scacchetti, general secretary of Spi Cgil and Elisabetta Piccolotti, AVS deputy, member of the VII Commission (culture, science, education).
“Differentiated autonomy – says the general secretary of Spi Cgil Basilicata, Angelo Summa – is a counter-reform that does not only damage the South, but that hurts the entire country, dividing it and making it irrelevant even at a European level. The bill will increase inequalities and territorial gaps. Those who will pay the consequences will be workers, pensioners, the weakest groups, the working poor. The pillars of the country system will be called into question, starting with healthcare and education, there will be a further weakening of universalistic welfare and public healthcare, making it difficult, especially in some regions such as Basilicata, to maintain essential levels of services, with a further increase in healthcare migration, which in Basilicata is already very high.
It will be impossible – continues Summa – to implement any industrial and development policy that will make us grow again and create quality employment, with the regionalization even of public education, a pillar of the national cultural identity”.
With differentiated autonomy, together with the premiership, “which concentrates power and further reduces the spaces for participation and political, institutional and social mediation”, according to Summa “we would reach the definitive overcoming of our parliamentary Republic and of our Constitution born from Resistence. We cannot allow it to come to this. We need to connect to people and respond to their needs, or we risk being overwhelmed. The collapse in turnout in the European elections is a wake-up call. Political democracy is the issue of our time. Without political democracy we cannot defend the system of social and civil rights that we have achieved through years of struggle.
For this reason – concludes Summa – as Spi Cgil we will take every possible action to stop this wicked law. In defense of rights, of the South, of Basilicata, of our Constitution and of our anti-fascist history”.
