Last 19 May Minister Calderoli, on the occasion of the meeting with the Sardinian Assembly, or rather, in the presence of only the Councilors representing the majority for having resolved, those of the minority, in the sense of not intervening, declared, according to what was reported from the media, that "Sardinia is one of the Regions that can benefit the most from the law" on differentiated autonomy, since "being a region with a somewhat particular special statute - because it has equal or lower powers than the regions with ordinary statute - it could draw benefits not only to guarantee the same services that are guaranteed throughout the national territory, but also in a growth perspective".
The affirmation is undoubtedly effective in terms of discursive impact, but, since it is not enriched with further specifications, at least as far as is known, on the practical scope of its contents, it is for most people very difficult to appreciate.
It is not a matter of necessarily wanting to be polemical but, admitted and perhaps not granted that our Sardinia would have "skills equal to or less than the regions with ordinary statute" (according to the words of the Minister), it is only a question of the need to concretely understand, if possible, what could be the direct effects of a reform of such consistency and of dubious constitutionality. And, considering the words of the Minister, it would also be a question, and above all, of understanding what our specialty and autonomy would have consisted up to now.
In other words: in the discipline of differentiated regionalism, what would be the meaning of the survival of the Autonomous Regions with Special Statutes?
Mutatis mutandis differentiated regionalism, if we really went to refine the reasoning, would probably render the simultaneous existence of Autonomous Regions with Special Statutes unnecessary.
In the meantime, and consequently, because the project of differentiated regionalism advocated by the League could not, for that very reason, and on the basis of the scope of those same declarations, be carried forward without having launched a dutiful popular consultation on the point also in consideration of the critical period that in recent years the whole country, in its entirety, has found itself in spite of having to face, and is still facing.
