Title V, who governs and who decides in Italy

"The health, economic and social crisis caused by the Coronavirus was the detonator that brought to light all the unresolved issues of the delicate, often conflictual, relationship between central power and autonomy in our country".

Title V, the new in-depth and information program of Rai3 takes its name from the fifth title of the Italian Constitution, that is, the set of principles that govern relations between the central state and local autonomies.

The director of the third Rai network Franco di Mare explained this by presenting the broadcast broadcast from Friday 23 October at 21.20, together with the conductors Roberto Vicaretti and Francesca Romana Elisei.

    "Government, Regions, Municipalities, Metropolitan Cities ... who governs - or who commands - in Italy?".

The inspiration for the program stems from the need to describe the growing rebound of skills between institutions, which ends up penalizing our country.

An issue that has become topical again in the midst of the pandemic, with Regions and State contending for decision-making power when they have to take crucial measures.

From the Rai production centers of Milan and Naples, two journalists will be connected - explains di Mare - from the capitals of the two Regions most affected by the second wave of the epidemic so far.

Naples and Milan are the cities that are the first to experience the nighttime "curfew" this weekend.

    Francesca Romana Elisei from Naples and Roberto Vicaretti from Milan "will take us" every week on a journey through the Regions, the Municipalities, the Central South and Central North territories, struggling with the Covid-19 emergency;

but also with the institutional babel, between DPCM, ordinances, decrees, leaks forward and crossed vetoes.

    Di Mare: "We realized, a few months ago, with Pietro Raschillà, that there are a whole series of cross signals of a divisive management of the country exasperated by the pandemic.

    So, we have devised a program divided between the two capitals of Italy apart from Rome. The two cities which, moreover, decide to adopt an evening cloister. Two cities divided by the management and united by the emergency itself. For this, we will have two offices. The two cities will not confront each other directly, because we don't like the brawls from the stadium. We just want to highlight the problems, without sparing the question but with civil debates ".

    To those who ask if it is in fact a program that re-proposes the theme of federalism, he replies: "the pandemic has highlighted it.

    We also remember that the 2001 Reform of that part of the Constitution which, delegating the organization and management of of health services, aimed at solidarity federalism, ended up generating 21 different health systems in a fragmentation that made the access and quality of health services and services profoundly diversified and unfair. North or South, public or private, right or left: traditional dialectics that seem insufficient to describe the reality of the country in the Covid emergency ".

    Among the guests of the first episode the mayor of Naples Luigi De Magistris, the President of the Puglia Region Michele Emiliano, Lucia Annunziata, Ferruccio De Bortoli, Giulio Tremonti, the constitutionalist who signed "Il Sole 24ore" Francesco Clementi and Marino Golinelli.

Elisei: "It is time to tell the pandemic also from the south. Because now the pandemic also affects the south. We all remember the escapes to the south, in March. Now, the problem concerns everyone and the added value of Title V is not only to tell about the pandemic, but to fuel the political debate ".

    While Vicaretti underlines: "A system that was incomplete and that the pandemic has done nothing but put under a magnifying glass has imploded. The objective we set ourselves is to understand if and how the institutional structure is also favoring this communication madness. We want to put ourselves in the shoes of the citizens who have to interpret those rules. Citizens who perhaps live in one region and work in another ".

    Title V talks about topicality and politics, but with contributions from the territory.

Also for this reason, it is broadcast simultaneously by two studios.

At the same time they will deal with the same theme, with a rebound of debates and reports from different areas of Italy.

And in the continuous tug-of-war between the Regions and the central state, how much do citizens pay?

Who and how will manage the money from the Recovery Fund?

And those of the Mes, if they ever arrive?

And then school, work, infrastructure.