Delete the provinces by the Constitution and replace them with the "colleges of autonomies". This is the next objective of the Letta government, which is meeting this morning in the Council of Ministers to discuss the reform of the Charter.
After that the Constitutional Court has rejected the decisions on the subject taken by the Monti government with the Salva-Italia decree and with another ad hoc decree (goodbye to the direct election of the president and provincial council, reduction and unification of the entities), a bill is ready which aims to delete from the Constitution any reference to the Provinces. This was assured yesterday by Dario Franceschini, Minister for Relations with Parliament.
In parallel, the Executive is working on the real reform, which will see the light in about ten days and will take into account the findings of the Consulta. The text, which should consist of 16 articles, will abolish the intermediate bodies, replacing them with the new "Autonomy colleges”, which will be made up of mayors and will have responsibilities relating to the planning of the environment, the territory and local transport, as well as the management of the roads under their jurisdiction. There will be no elected political bodies: no president, no junta, no council.
The other competences previously managed by the Provinces will pass to the Municipalities or Regions, as well as the 57 employees provincial, which will decrease over time (but without redundancies, retirements will suffice). The potential savings are between 700 million and one billion euros a year, or double what the reform of the Monti government would have guaranteed.
