La politica locale nel sistema istituzionale italiano
n. 1/1984
Summary
— At the meeting «Left and government of the town », the introductive
relation on « Local politics in the
Italian institutional system » has emphasized how utopian be to think that
municipalities benefit from uniform political areas in all the sectors
pertaining to the sphere of their intervention.
The Constitution, in fact, though imposing the elective rule of the
organisms, has not been put entirely into effect so as to confer them a real
political, identity of their intervention.
In the period between the coming into force of the Constitution and the
realisation of the regions, the State persisted in regulating the activity of
the municipalities with over-exacting norme greatly curbing the autonomy.
Only subsequently to the institution of the regions it was attempted to
setup a model of administration for programmes that would free local bodies from
stifling disciplines and attribute a better political qualification to their
action. But
also this attempt has not been devoid of contradictions, in as much as in some
sectors the regions, conditioned by the inadequacies
of the local
bodies, ended in bearing heavily on local autonomy.
As a result, the feasibility of local political action in the various
areas of intervention is different according
to the model of administration governing the single sectors and it is still
dissimilar in each region as regards matters of regional competence.
The value judgments on the actual political action of the left
town-councils cannot, therefore, forget that, according to the sectors of
intervention and to the regions, the ambits of real political feasibility are
often much more narrow than it is commonly
believed.