The plan was to make Sassari the second metropolitan city of Sardinia after that of Cagliari and simultaneously resurrect the provinces of Gallura, Ogliastra, Sulcis and Medio Campidano, established in 2001 and canceled in 2016. Again: elections to be called by 30 June 2024 to create metropolitan and provincial councils, to which the construction of the new structure of local autonomies will be entrusted. But for now nothing is being done.

The opening of the polls, with a second level procedure - only local administrators at the polls - is written in article 120 of regional law 9/2023. That is, the link to the Finance Act, challenged by the Meloni Government before the Constitutional Court and still sub judice. It was the centre-right with Lega-Psd'Az traction, during the just closed legislature, that wanted that article 120 but the result was a second law that ended up in the Council's trap after law 7 of 12 April 2021, stopped by the Executive Dragons.

The double appeal, which made the two regulations of 2021 and 2023 inoperative, brought the Sardinian clock of local autonomies back to 2016. Precisely to law 2 of 14 February. The alliances swept away the provinces of 2001 and shaped an organizational model that was difficult to apply. The 2016 reorganization is based on a five-way scheme. Southern Sardinia is the former province of Cagliari "cleaned up" by the metropolitan city which, in turn, includes seventeen municipalities. The authorities of Oristano and Nuoro are also the "medium cities" which, by joining other municipalities, can create "urban networks", equally difficult to implement. The Province of Sassari, however, has been promoted to a "metropolitan network". Something less than a City but not even that "sop" has ever seen the light.

Alessandra Carta

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