The President of the Regional Council of Calabria Philip Mancuso has swritten to the rectors of the three Calabrian universities asking them for “an in-depth economic-technical-legal study, in order to evaluate the repercussions that would be had in Calabria, if the Regions that request it were allowed to obtain the competences in the matters excluded from the ‘Lep’ in the matter of differentiated autonomy.
After the approval, on April 18, by the Regional Council of the document of the center-right majority on differentiated autonomy, Mancuso intended to follow it up by involving the three universities. The document stated that “a preventive impact analysis is needed also on the subjects excluded from the determination of the Lep. Without this indispensable study, no State-Regional agreement can be formalized on differentiated autonomy”.
In the letter, sent to the rector of the Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro Giovanni Cuda, to the rector of the University of Calabria of Cosenza Nicola Leone and to the rector of the Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria Giuseppe Zimbalatti, Mancuso recalls that the council majority “considers differentiated autonomy an opportunity, since the determination and financing of the ‘Lep’ as well as the overcoming of historical expenditure would guarantee equal services and rights for all citizens wherever they reside, while the majority councilors have expressed some doubts about what concerns non-‘Lep’ matters”. Mancuso also invited the three rectors “to indicate the professional figures to whom to entrust the task in question, in order to be able to hold an initial programmatic meeting in the offices of the Presidency of the Regional Council”.