Ex-premier and Democratic Party
(PD) leader Matteo Renzi said Monday the referendum "result in
Lombardy and above all in Veneto musty not be minimized. The
message is serious: they're asking for more autonomy and
efficiency, greater fiscal equity, a fight against waste at the
central and peripheral level. The correct way to face the
future, for me, is not just the Constitution's article 116 as
the governors want (also in Emilia Romagna), but to realise that
in Italy there is a huge fiscal question. The real priority is
this: cutting the tax burden". The governors of Lombardy,
Roberto Maroni, and Veneto, Luca Zaia, want to at least halve
the difference between what they pay in taxes and what they get
back. This difference is 54 billion euros in Lombardy and 15.5
billion in Veneto, according to the Italian media. The governors
also want control over 23 policy areas to be returned from
central government to the regions.
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