«The definitive agreements on differentiated autonomy were signed in the Council of Ministers with Liguria, Lombardy, Piedmont and Veneto, the four Regions that started this process which is definitively ruining the South. A dramatic fact. This Government confirms itself as the longest-lasting and most anti-Southern in the history of the Italian Republic.” This was stated by the regional councilor of the Democratic Party, Giuseppe Falcomatà, denouncing «a secessionist maneuver supported by the silence and interested compliance of those who, like the governor Roberto Occhiuto, have the obligation to defend the interests of Calabria and the rights of the Calabrians».
«In the midst of a crisis that is bringing the country to its knees – claims the Dem exponent – Palazzo Chigi, instead of addressing the high cost of fuel, galloping inflation, high costs of living and the increase in the shopping cart, has decided to give a worrying acceleration to the secession of the rich. A zero-balance reform for the state coffers which translates, for the citizens of the South, into fewer resources and fewer possibilities of ensuring the same essential levels of services and identical quality of services as the economically stronger regions. The Meloni Government, therefore, returns the “courtesy” to the Northern League after the support obtained on the electoral law, a caress to Minister Salvini in view of the upcoming Northern League congress. I had hoped that, between one TV appearance and another – continues the PD councilor – President Occhiuto, increasingly interested in national dynamics and little in Calabrian ones, would also find the time to speak with his own minister of reference as well as national secretary Tajani, to reiterate his firm No to this regulatory disgrace.
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