The battle for the inclusion of insularity in the Italian Constitution reaches its final stage.
At the suggestion of Forza Italia, the conference of group presidents decided to put the discussion on the agenda in the Chamber of Deputies for March 14.
This was made known by the Sardinian parliamentarians Ugo Cappellacci and Pietro Pittalis, who together with the movement raised awareness of the group leader Barelli and the entire blue team.
"This - underline the two deputies - is the stage of an ambitious path, which must contribute to making the rights of Sardinians effective in compliance with the constitutional framework and on equal terms with their Italian brothers and fellow European citizens".
The provision received a first unanimous ok in the Senate last November: "The Republic - reads the text - recognizes the peculiarities of the islands and promotes the necessary measures to remove the disadvantages deriving from insularity".
The popular initiative bill is the "mother of all battles" for Sardinia.
Being an island, is the reasoning behind the bill, involves enormous additional costs that must be compensated for in the name of national cohesion, with the aim of making the starting points of all Italian citizens equal. A specific study on the problem, carried out by the Bruno Leoni Institute, quantified the cost of insularity for Sardinia at about 5,700 euros per capita: about 9 billion euros a year (compared to a GDP of the region of about 20 billion EUR). Hence Sardinia's request to Parliament: to eliminate the current structural disadvantages linked to insularity to allow Sardinians to compete with all other Italian citizens with equal starting points.
(Unioneonline / L)
