Autonomy: Zaia, ‘it is not an idea to barricade against national unity’

(ANSA) – VENICE, APR 3 – “I hope that the Chamber will quickly bring the measure to the floor, and give us the opportunity to fully demonstrate, with the writing of what will be the document of the agreement, that it will still involve Parliament , of what our idea of ​​autonomy is, a non-barricading, non-revolutionary idea, not an idea that goes against national unity”. This was said by the president of Veneto Luca Zaia, in a hearing today at the Constitutional Affairs Commission of the Chamber for the bill on differentiated autonomy. “But what does it mean – Zaia asked – national unity? It seems to me that there is a Nation, with a capital ‘n’, which responds to the name of Germany, which has an autonomy that we dream of. He wrote his Constitution at the same time as Italy, and immediately decided to be a hyper-federalist country. Our founding fathers also wanted it, but then centralism did damage. Germany, which is the reference country for autonomy in Europe is not a country perceived as ruined, but as a great nation. To say that the country is splitting – he concluded – means being in bad faith, or not knowing the project.” (HANDLE).