The classroom will always be the same, that of the Constituent Assembly of '47. In the meantime, however, 75 years will have passed since, on 31 January 1948, Sardinia, the Mediterranean island, was "elevated" to the rank of Autonomous and Special Region in the parliamentary temple of Deputies. It is in that same parterre , halved in numbers, that the " de profundis " of the Special Autonomy now risks landing, the same "granted" among a thousand ordeals and infinite state pitfalls.
Calderoli, the arsonist
The Draft Law on "Differentiated Regions" "shot" into the media and political ether by the impetuous Minister of Regional Affairs, Northern League member Roberto Calderoli, which went down in history for the bonfire of 375,000 laws defined as useless, is much more than a stake constitutional. In those seven pages, with the overwritten "working draft", disclosed as a manifesto of dogmas and decisions already taken, the most subtle attack on the autonomistic history of the only full-fledged Special Region takes place, if only for that condition insular and ultraperipheral that not even the most ingenious of state conjurers would be able to transform into an optical vision. Calderoli, the Minister, is no longer what he once was. A few decades ago he would have thundered, as many others have done, from the most varied political parties, against those who loved to rhetorically define the "privileges" of the Autonomous Regions. There are, for example, those who now sit in this government, had even gone much further by presenting a bill for the literal cancellation of the Autonomous and Special Region of Sardinia. Times, however, have changed. Now the incursion won't be with club blows and fires, but the strategy will be sneaky and sneaky. The goal is to have the autonomistic Specialty annihilated without ever saying so, proclaiming one's innocence in the face of any attempt at a reaction by some "nostalgic" of Lussu and past history.
Body of the crime
If questioned in front of the punctual examination of the "corpus delicti", the Calderoli Bill, they will say that this "history" of the Special Autonomies is obsolete, worn out and out of time. The reality is, unfortunately, quite different. Experienced constitutionalists and law lovers write it, still under wraps: in no way can a constitutional provision be overcome with an ordinary law, much less with an equivocal and indefinite parliamentary procedure. The substance of the question can be summarized with a concept: the prevailing difference in powers and resources in favor of the Special Regions, indicated as a constitutional principle in the first paragraph of article 116 of the Constitution, cannot be modified except with a law of the same degree . To be more explicit: it must be the Constitution that establishes the possible recognition of the "differentiated" Regions, in this case Veneto, Lombardy and Emilia Romagna, with greater powers than the Special ones. Only in this way will it be possible to alter, limiting or eliminating it, that "positive" difference that the Constituents, and several times the Sovereign People, had sanctioned and recognized to guarantee weak and particular Regions those additional tools to achieve and maintain a true "economic" rebalancing , “social” and “cultural” of their populations.
