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The Regions of Italy were granted a degree of regional autonomy in the 1948 constitution, which states that the constitution's role is: to recognize, protect and promote local autonomy, to ensure that services at the State level are as decentralized as possible, and to adapt the principles and laws establishing autonomy and decentralization.
Each region has an elected council and a Giunta Regionale (executive committee) headed by a directly elected president. The Giunta is responsible to the council and is required to resign if it fails to retain the council's confidence. The regions primarily served to decentralize the state government machinery. A constitutional reform in 2001 remarkably widened the competences of the Regions, in particular concerning legislative powers and most of state controls were abolished. In 2005 the centre-right government led by Silvio Berlusconi proposed a major reform of the constitution which would have entailed greatly increasing the powers of the regions in areas such as health and education. In June 2006, the proposals, which had been particularly associated with Berlusconi’s partners in government the Northern League, and seen by some as leading the way to a federal state, were rejected in a referendum by a margin of 61.7% to 38.3%.
Regional autonomy (Federalism) has been made an issue in Italian politics in recent years, no doubt aided by the emergence of parties such as the Lega Nord.
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