The Senate approved Calderoli’s bill on differentiated autonomy at first reading: 110 votes in favor, 64 against and 3 abstentions. The measure now goes to the Chamber for consideration. The government’s aim is to achieve final approval before the European elections in June. “With this reform, instead of combating territorial disparities, they crystallize the current ones and widen them, they did not invest a single euro, nor did they even pretend to put resources: further proof that Giorgia Melloni is reviving Lega’s old separatist dream. This is the scandalous exchange made for their political ends and to approve another scandalous reform that substantially goes beyond the form of a parliamentary republic”: this is the comment of the secretary of the Democratic Party, Elly Schlein. Tommaso Foti’s response soon arrived: “The PD secretary Schlein does not have a good memory. The approval of the motion in which it was said to give Governor Bonaccini a mandate for the full implementation of article 116, third paragraph of the Constitution because it was fundamental that the Region had autonomy”, he declared.
“This article, in fact, was intended by the center-left and not by the center-right, which approved it with three votes. In 2014, the left established the first form of collaboration with the Regions to implement these rules. furthermore, the then new minister Boccia, now leader of the PD group in the Senate, argued that a framework law was needed to implement the article of the Constitution, which is now defined by the left as ‘Spacca-Italia’. At the time of the Gentiloni government, in the proposals signed by the governors of the time, there was no mention of the essential levels of services, introduced in this law, as well as the essential levels of assistance. deleted the word ‘South’ from the Constitution”, continued the leader of the Brothers of Italy group in the Door to Door Chamber.
Source: IL Tempo
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