Antonio Saitta, health director for the Piedmont region and health coordinator for the federation of regions, said the repeal was a "step backwards".
The country was little more than a loose federation of regions and tribes before Colonel Qaddafi came to power.
"But for a long time it has not been a federation of regions but one of corporations, in which each corporation has a certain measure of independence and sovereignty and, within this framework, is effectively out of the state's control".
The Soviet Union had unraveled, and now Russia, itself a federation of 90 regions, threatened to disintegrate, just as many people worry that Iraq might do now that the heavy hand of Mr. Hussein has been lifted.
One way to achieve this, and to simultaneously undercut the xenophobic nationalism of the far right, would be to transform the EU into a decentralised federation of the regions.
They demanded the reinstatement of Mr Hadi and reaffirmed their support for Yemen becoming a federation of six regions, as agreed last year at the National Dialogue Conference.
They subsequently participated in a National Dialogue Conference NDCC), which led to President Hadi announcing plans in February 2014 for Yemen to become a federation of six regions.
Russia's argument is that Ukraine cannot survive as a unitary state and only by turning it into a looser federation could different regions keep their separate identities and sometimes conflicting interests without coming to blows.
Still, Ukraine's commitment to engage in "immediate" discussion of constitutional revisions was a concession to Russia's demand that Ukraine be transformed from a unitary state with a strong central government into a federation in which regions enact economic and foreign policies.
Under the coding system introduced in 1996, the United States and Canada are in Region 1; Europe, South Africa and Japan are in Region 2; Region 3 covers Southeast Asia; Region 4 is Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific and Latin America; Region 5 is Africa, the Russian federation and Eastern Europe and Region 6 is China.
