(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 14 - Italy's Constitutional Court said
Thursday that it considered assertions that the whole of the
government's law bringing in 'differentiated autonomy' to enable
regions to request more power over how the tax revenues
collected in their areas are spent was unconstitutional were
"not founded".
The court added, however, that it did consider specific parts of
the law "illegitimate".
The court examined the law after some regional government's
raised objections to it.
Opposition parties says the law is a threat to national unity
and will worsen Italy's north-south divide to the detriment of
poorer regions in the south.
They have collected signatures for a referendum on abolishing
the law. (ANSA).