Giorgia Meloni's right-wing government, in its various ministerial divisions, does not fail to reserve many points for reflection in August. Lastly, Matteo Salvini, at the helm of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, according to what the most important press agencies report, announced that he felt "overwhelmed with (wanting) to reintroduce the Provinces", and announced that he wanted to do so together with a return to the mechanism of direct election of the President and of the Provincial Council.
Assuming and not granting that the Provinces have ever been de facto cancelled/abolished (perhaps they would seem to no longer exist only as a political body), and there would be so much to say on the specific aspect, what would be the need, on a teleological level, to such an extent stringent arisen and/or strengthened, it would seem, in the context of a meeting in Forte dei Marmi with local administrators? What sense would it make, currently, in a moment of pressing economic difficulty, to restore substance (because this would probably be more precisely what it would be about) to an intermediate administrative body called precisely to act as an intermediary between the various municipalities and the Region if, in the meantime , have various metropolitan cities been established whose reference territory would seem to coincide with that of the historic provinces?
To say it simply: over the years, everything would seem to have transformed and nothing would seem to have been destroyed in the absence of a constitutionally relevant reform that has never intervened on the point. But, beyond any stringent technical-juridical remark, it really seems, and rather, that recent political history has left no trace of any teaching, and even if it had, probably that "teaching" of which should have been treasured, it would seem to have been forgotten and/or shelved.
Yet perhaps it would be sufficient to recall the events, and the related debates, which developed on the subject in the midst of the so-called fourth "Berlusconi Government", which resulted from the political experience of Mario Monti on the basis of the need to bring the country's economic situation back into coherence to say it simply became critical, according to the "community" findings of the time, precisely because of the persistence in the Territory of expensive intermediate bodies. But, even without wanting to bother with that government experience, "mutatis mutandis", the point, to date, would seem to be another, if only one considers that the political reconsideration of the Provincial body, in its essential lines, and barring liminal differences, it would seem to find its driving force both in the understanding of the centre-right, and in that of the centre-left, including the 5 Star Movement.
