Autonomy, Puglia appeals the law. Emiliano: 'Regional competences infringed'.

The president of the Apulia Region, Michele Emiliano, has decided to challenge before the Constitutional Court the law on differentiated autonomy 'for infringement of the sphere of competence of the Regions, as provided for by Article 127, paragraph 2, of the Constitution'. The governor explained that the decision is in addition to 'the referendum initiatives already promoted by the Regions and Italian citizens engaged in an extraordinary mobilisation to collect signatures'. The Council entrusted the task to the lawyer Massimo Luciani, 'one of Italy's leading constitutionalists, and to the head of the regional lawyer's office Rossana Lanza'.

In the past few days, the referendum committee for the repeal of the differentiated autonomy law announced that it had collected 500,000 signatures, the required quota to be able to request a refrendum to repeal a law.