ROME (ITALPRESS) – “Those who believe that differentiated autonomy does not serve or makes the state of things worse are out of touch. We are at the crossroads of an unstoppable program of administrative decentralization already started in the 1990s: who would turn back today from self-certification? Autonomy is the booster to start the transformation of the country.” Thus Veneto Governor Luca Zaia in an interview with La Stampa.
“The reform will be a new renaissance. It is not true that the South loses out in fact the leap it will be able to make is greater than that of the North. The South has everything to gain. It is not a war between rich and poor regions, between South and North. It is a great project for the whole country,” he added. According to Zaia, “those who are autonomists put citizens at the center, those who are centralists prefer the bureaucracy of distant offices. It will be a long phase at least until, on the subjects we are asking for, we put pen to paper. It is enough, however, to read the first article of the Calderoli bill to see that all the answers to the perplexities are there. It will be a total reset, a new big bang.”
Then, he observes that “autonomy is one of the pillars of the government program of this coalition. I remind skeptics that we are still at the beginning of the journey. To use a football metaphor we are in the warm-up phase on the sidelines, the real game has yet to begin.”
Finally on the impossibility of a third term, Zaia concludes, “It is unfortunate that in the majority there is someone who says that with the third term if creates power centers. It is an all-Italian anomaly, where the only two elected offices that citizens elect, mayors and regional presidents, by virtue of this anomaly cannot be reelected. Let’s see what the outcome will be, after which I will adjust accordingly.”
(ITALPRESS).
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Zaia “Autonomy great project for the transformation of the country”
