A thousand people took to the streets this morning in Cosenza to demonstrate against differentiated autonomy. Among the participants were also mayors of municipalities in the Cosenza area, movements belonging to the left and citizen associations. The procession started from Piazza Loreto and ended near the Prefecture.
“We said – said Angelo Sposato, general secretary of the CGIL Calabria who coordinated the demonstration – that differentiated autonomy is a problem that concerns the country, not just the South. It is not enough to talk about Lep, the problem is of principle , is how this reform project was proposed which continues to increase the country’s divergences and inequalities, especially on sensitive issues such as healthcare, work and infrastructure”.
“The government should withdraw it and above all the President of the Region should change his mind. Today – he added regarding the absence of CISL and UIL – it is a demonstration that in some way brings together a cartel of associations, but there are also other trade unions against it to this differentiated autonomy reform project, we are moving forward together and we have said that if the law were to reach Parliament we are also ready to start mobilizing for the referendum campaign. We are together on these issues. Yesterday we made a wonderful initiative on security on work in Florence and in May there will be a large national mobilization in Naples on autonomy that we will also do together with Uil”.
For the mayor of Cosenza Franz Caruso, autonomy “will create a fracture, a laceration of the country. Twenty small states will arise and will have a decisive impact on important matters such as healthcare, transport, energy, the environment and infrastructure” .
For the secretary of the CGIL Cosenza Massimiliano Ianni, the law is “subversive, it will create greater gaps between North and South and further inconveniences and problems for this region which is already behind in comparison to those of the South and is far behind in comparison to those of the North Public healthcare risks disappearing in favor of wild privatization. Some data from the last few hours attest that in Calabria there is a mortality rate 20% higher than in the north. With differentiated autonomy everything will certainly get worse. Treatment will continue who has the possibility of getting treatment. So the rich will certainly be able to get treatment, the poor risk dying from this bad healthcare.”
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