Cagliari, open war on the stadium and hospital: even the allies against the Region's plan

A few hours to digest the information, and the Sardinian regional councilor Stefano Schirru, then a member of the party of which Solinas is secretary, held back: "The decision on hospitals must pass from the regional council: no one is offended, but this is democracy". he said.

After a few hours, another distancing from the Solinas plan arrived. It bears the signature of the group leader of the Reformers in the city council, Umberto Ticca. His party, in the Region, supports the president: «Cagliari and the people of Cagliari want a stadium and they want it in Sant'Elia», he attacks without frills, «In April our city was included in the Italian candidacy dossier for the European Championships and the rossoblù are just climbed into Serie A, demonstrating once again how Cagliari is the team of a whole people, of all of Sardinia". According to Ticca « the financing of the new stadium has nothing to do with the complex planning, and so far not even started, of hospitals and student residences. We are still at a standstill, almost five months have passed since the regional budget, now the question is increasingly urgent ». In short: stadium, not health projects.

If he could have met his ally Solinas, the regional coordinator of Forza Italia Ugo Cappellacci did not: «The reform of the health system launched at a national level goes beyond a hospital-centric vision to focus on prevention, personnel enhancement, research and above all on a new home-territory-hospital relationship», he said at a round table on healthcare organized by Confapi in Arborea, adding that «obviously this does not mean not intervening on hospital structures which in Sardinia, for example, are still not adequate for parameters introduced 12 years ago».

The opposition in the municipal council of Cagliari, first signed by Matteo Massa, meanwhile has filed a question to ask the mayor Paolo Truzzu " if there is a proposal in the municipal records for the location of a hospital in the Sant'Elia area already partially affected by the stadium project, and if the Region has ever officially raised a similar issue impeding the construction of the stadium». The Progressives also ask "whether alternative solutions to the regional allocation have been evaluated and probed for obtaining the 50 million euros necessary for the construction of the new stadium in Sant'Elia".

Because the risk, as underlined by the regional councilor of the same party, Francesco Agus, is that «because of Solinas neither the hospital nor the stadium will be built. The program agreement desired by the centre-right is an attack on the city: it must be stopped in every possible way». (The statements in the video).