The government's law
introducing 'differentiated autonomy' to enable regions to
request more power over how the tax revenues collected in their
areas are spent is bad for the North of Italy as well as the
South, Democratic Party (PD) leader Elly Schlein said on
Friday.
Opposition parties have started collecting signatures for a
referendum on abolishing the reform, saying will worsen Italy's
North-South divide.
But Schlein believes the wealthier regions of the North have
grounds to be against it as well as poorer ones in the south.
"We are very happy that the campaign has started to stop
differentiated autonomy, a law that splits the country in two,
when the inequalities that have increased between North and
South need to be mended," Schlein said at the Giffoni Film
Festival for children in Campania.
"But it is a reform that also hurts the North because it is
absurd to imagine being able to have 20 different energy
policies when a common, European one would be able to lower
bills for both businesses and families".
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