We closed an important agreement. We have built the position of the regions with special status as the government believed it but forget it in the enabling act on federalism was intended that the special statute regions have a direct relationship with the government in order to define an order for each region .
The decree law ten days ago on federalism rather the government has pretended to forget it and made a decree that would bound all but does not apply to us.
should discuss, because we have different situations. The islands have a condition, we are a target. Sardinia is not, but certainly in a situation of difficulty. Trentino and Valle D'Aosta are among the most developed regions, so it takes a particular contract.
We reminded the government this morning and prepared amendments to the decree from Sicily that the region is strong among those with special status for consistency of the population, strength, political strength and also for what it is our determination, our position is passed in the Conference of the Regions.
An important point that we have relied is this: always in the enabling law on federalism it comes to equalization infrastructure, which means that the government, before starting to federalism, to do a survey on the state of infrastructure and commit to closing the gap.
In essence there can be no federalism that it is useful to the rich regions of the north and in the meantime fill the gap in infrastructure. For example, if we have a railway shameful, the Catania-Palermo, so to come to Palermo, every week, I'd put 4 and a half hours to travel 180 kilometers, Mr. Government, prior to impose federalism, it has undertaken to tell us what terms and with what resources it intends to make a fast line that will enable me to travel that route at least an hour and a half at a modest speed of 120 kmh.
We want to know of these railways, ports, etc. ring road. so that within a reasonable time, as happens between Verona and Venice and elsewhere in the north, we also have our roads, highways, airports up to and including high-speed rail capacity if not.
we raised this issue with force. The fold of federalism is that while you federalism, that the regions strong get stronger and stronger and then we shall see, when there will be a government that realizes what is the situation of an Italy that next year celebrate the 150th anniversary Unit but that has never been as divided today in terms of infrastructure and a thousand other ways.
This is the speech that we have started and that meant that Sicily taking a leadership role in relation to these issues compared with other regions the central government.
