" Sardinia has been cut off from railway development plans and the Region is ready to oppose if, faced with a disadvantage that affects Sardinian economic development, the State proves deaf and unwilling to activate those necessary and urgent rebalancing measures and resource allocation plans that do not take into account Sardinia's railway infrastructure deficit ".
This was stated by the President of the Region Christian Solinas during the hearing, in videoconference, with the Public Works Commission of the Senate .
THE SARDINIAN GAP - In his speech, the governor listed the criticalities and problems of Sardinia as regards infrastructures and railway connections.
"The island had to be given the opportunity to align itself with the rest of the country - pointed out Solinas - but we acknowledge the fact that this was not the case . For this reason we will oppose in all offices and with every instrument to plans for the allocation of resources that do not take into account the need to remove the inequalities that divide the islanders from the rest of the citizens of the mainland ".
Solinas has repeatedly emphasized the "infrastructural gap" that weighs on the island, particularly in the railway sector. "A widely documented disadvantage - he said - that together with insularity must be adequately considered in the allocation of the infrastructure equalization fund (4.6 million euros) which must represent an opportunity for rebalancing between Sardinia and the other Italian regions with regard to infrastructure equipment, including those related to railway mobility ".
THE INDICATORS - "Once the country's infrastructure index is 100, Sardinia is 50 and the situation in the railway system is even worse - explained the President - It is worried that we are witnessing proposals formulated by the individual regions and presented to the various coordination tables which lead to subverting the reality of things, indicating Sardinia among the regions that would least need equalization ". Hence the position of the Region: "So it happens - he said - that an attempt is made to outline an apparent and completely illusory , which determines the proposed assignment of a ridiculous 2.56% of the endowment, with the penultimate island among the regions with more than 1,000,000 inhabitants and further penalized compared to regions that are already much more structured today, recipients of additional funding up to five times higher than what was hypothesized for Sardinia. - he continued - will oppose any proposal of this kind which is ".
