Italy's biggest and most left-wing
trade union federation CGIL will join with lay and religious
associations to rally on June 24 in defence of the national
health service, union sources said Saturday.
A national demonstration will be held on Saturday 24 June in
Rome "for the defence and relaunch of the national, public and
universal health service" and the right to health of people and
in the workplace, they said.
And another national demonstration will be held in Rome on
Saturday 30 September for "the defence and implementation of the
Constitution, against autonomy and the distortion of the
parliamentary Republic," referring to the fight against the
rightwing League party's plans for differentiated autonomy which
have been criticised on grounds they will worsen health and
other disparities between Italian regions.
The sources said "this is the mobilisation path that CGIL and a
network of lay and Catholic associations are preparing to put
under the slogan 'Together for the Constitution', which must be
implemented and not overturned: environment, rights, work,
health, peace."
The demos are also seen as being implicitly against rightwing
Premier Giorgia Meloni's plans to change the anti-fascist
postwar Constitution to allow the direct election by the people
of the Italian premier or president.
photo: CGIL leader Maurizio Landini
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