Lattuca, 'we are applying to bring dispersed functions back to the Provinces'

The Provinces are the level in which all functions of a supra-municipal scale fall and which cannot even be managed effectively and efficiently by the Regions. I am thinking of strategic policies on infrastructure on a territorial scale, of development policies including urban development, of policies for internal areas, and of many matters, such as environmental ones, which concern water management, waste management, which cannot find the level of implementation at a regional level and which cannot be managed municipally by municipality, small territorial business crises, which often are not listened to at a national level. Today these functions are dispersed in the institutional disorder of our country and the provincial level is the natural, intermediate and optimal one for bringing them together, leaving them in an area that has a guarantee of democracy thanks to the presence of elected political bodies and democratic representation. This is the candidacy we are putting forward. This was said by the president of Upi, the Union of Italian Provinces, Enzo Lattuca, speaking on the ANSA Incontra broadcast, underlining the new plan that, according to the Association, the Provinces should adopt.

Lattuca also illustrated the results of a survey carried out with the Piepoli Institute. "It returns a result that is at times surprising - he said - but not that much. Despite ten difficult years, the Provinces remain in the perception of the citizens and naturally also of the mayors, they are a recognized territorial level, an identity, they represent a geographical dimension which for the citizens is also a sense of belonging and which requires strengthening. It is surprising because the risk, after this long difficult period for the Provinces, was that of having fallen into oblivion, in indifference. This is not the case. The survey shows that 74% of citizens are in favor of the return to direct voting for the presidents of the Province and Provincial Councils".