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Residents of the richest Italian regions of Lombardy and Veneto voted at an advisory referendum for the expansion of autonomy, reports Reuters. The results of the plebisitus do not have a legally binding force for the government of the country.

In Lombardy, the turnout amounted to 40 percent, in Veneto - 57. More than 90 percent of the voted spoke out for expanding the autonomy of the regions.

One of the main claims of the regions is that they pay much more taxes than they receive from the budget. Their share in the country's GDP is 30 percent. The pawnshop, which includes the financial capital of Italy Milan, annually transfers 54 billion euros to the budget, Veneto with the capital in Venice - 15.5. The areas want to reduce their payments to Rome at least twice.

The head of the Junta (Government) Lombardy Roberto Maroni and his colleague in Veneto Luke Dzea are in the right anti -immigrant party of the League of the North. The party constantly states that the north of Italy should not "feed" the much more poor south. In the mid-1990s, the League of the North advocated the exit of the northern regions of Italy from the country and the formation of an independent state of falling with the capital in Milan. However, now the party insists only on the federalization of Italy.

Maroni emphasizes that the situation in Italy is different from Spanish. “We are not Catalonia,” he said. “We remain part of the Italian state with more autonomy, while Catalonia wants to become a 29th member of the European Union. We are not. Not now, in any case.”

In the government of Italy, they are disapproving about referenda, stating that they are not necessary. However, the Italian Constitution allows for such approvals. Of the 20 regions of Italy, five, where ethnic and language minorities live compactly, including Sicily and Sardinia, have a special autonomous status

On October 1, a referendum on independence was held in the Spanish autonomy of Catalonia. According to the Catalan authorities, more than 90 percent of the voted from Spain spoke from Spain. On October 21, the Spanish government held an emergency. Prime Minister of Spain Mariano Raha said he would invite the country to dissolve the government of Catalonia , dismiss his head of Carles Puchdemon and appoint the Catalan parliament. The Senate of Spain will consider the initiative of the government on October 27.