Lo Statuto Regionale Siciliano di autonomia speciale nel contesto dell’evoluzione politico-istituzionale dello Stato italiano

Abstract

After a complicated experience with requests for independence, in 1946 Sicily obtained a special regional autonomy statute, elevated to constitutional rule in 1947 by the Republican Constitution. The Sicilian Statute, inspired by the 1932 Statute of Catalonia, through mediation of the jurist G. Ambrosini and gathering their historical pecularities, acknowledged the island’s special powers of autonomy, that differentiated it from other regions holding «normal» statute, just as the same 1947 Constitution acknowledged it. The amendment to Title V of the Constitution carried out in 2001, which envisages an extensive devolution of powers to the regions designing a sort of semifederal state, undermines the special Sicilian autonomy, necessitating a debate on the limits and scope of the same.