The reorganization of the Italian provinces has been postponed by one year. The Senate Budget Commission has approved an amendment by the rapporteurs to the Stability Law which provides for the suspension of the measures on the matter launched a year ago with the Salva-Italia decree for twelve months.
The first provision of the Monti government provided for the transfer of the functions of the provincial administrations to the Regions and Municipalities by 31 December 2012. The change introduced today will also be valid for the prefectures, whose reorganization will be frozen for a year.
Last week it was announced that the specific decree for the reorganization of the Italian provinces, relating to the spending review, would not be converted into law. The news had emerged from a session of the Constitutional Affairs commission in the Senate, preceded by a restricted meeting by the president of the commission Carlo Vizzini, the minister for relations with Parliament Piero Giarda, the minister of public administration Filippo Patroni Griffi and the undersecretary Antonio Maraschini.
The Commission and the government had taken note of the number of amendments and sub-amendments presented to the provision, arriving at the conclusion that there was no margin for bringing the text to the Chamber. "The fate of these months is to lose important opportunities - commented Vizzini - it was made an effort to find the overall conditions to approve this expected provision, but it was not successful".
