Insularity, Sardinia forgotten: "A general mobilization is needed."
Resources and implementing decrees are lacking, costs for Sardinians are close to 6 billion a year.
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It was supposed to be as valuable as a new Rebirth Plan. It was supposed to represent, as Pietrino Soddu hoped, the relaunch of the autonomy issue. But four years later, the principle of insularity inserted into the Constitution in 2022, with the amendment to Article 119 voted by Parliament on November 15, four years ago, remains a dead letter . Without resources and implementing decrees, political parties, intellectuals, and unions have reopened the challenge, promising to launch a general assembly.
Once again, Maria Antonietta Mongiu , president of the Scientific Committee for Insularity in the Constitution, called for yesterday's meeting in the Online Video Room of L'Unione Sarda, in its historic headquarters on Viale Regina Elena in Cagliari. "Politics," the professor said at the start of the meeting, "must assume the responsibility of starting over." A question of credibility, first and foremost, immediately emphasized by constitutional scholar Marco Betzu , Professor at the University of Cagliari, who first referred to "the stalemate in the application of the principle of insularity," then emphasized how "the duty of institutions is also to implement policies, otherwise the risk is a loss of citizens' trust." Taking that "grotesque" form, Mongiu called it, which, for the same reasons of betrayed expectations, "can undermine the stability of a democratic system."
Gian Valerio Sanna , another prominent member of the Committee and a former regional councilor for urban planning, listed the costs of insularity: "They amount to €5.8 billion annually (some estimates put it as high as €9 billion), with a per capita impact of €6,000. Recognition of Sardinia's geographical location should have been the primary focus of discussions with the State." This should be understood as a "principle of agreement," Sanna emphasized. "The Sardinian population represents 2.7% of the national population, but we must pay 8% of the costs for renewables. No progress has been made in reducing military easements, 65% of which are concentrated in Sardinia." These gaps "translate into economic losses, but also educational ones, given that primary and secondary education suffer from the lack of exemptions in school organization," said Laura Caddeo, a former principal and former regional councilor.
