New stadium of Cagliari: «Delays are the fault of the Municipality and the Region, from the agreement via the other works»
Agus (Progressives): «They created the problem for themselves, funding linked to interventions such as hospitals and university campuses that have nothing to do with it»«The problems on the construction of the new stadium, the Municipality and the Region created by themselves. The parts that do not concern the Cagliari system must be eliminated from the program agreement : we will ask for it, we hope they will show seriousness».
Cagliari fans know it well, many (especially last-minute supporters who haven't found tickets for the final) have discovered it these days: the Unipol Domus is not enough. To explain what are the difficulties related to the Gigi Riva stadium of the future is the regional councilor of the Progressives, Francesco Agus.
The opposition exponent retraces the events on the new plant: "In 2019 there was an extremely advanced process, shared by all the institutions and by society for the construction of a 21,000-seat plant that is sustainable from an urban and financial point of view," he recalls. And he underlines: «If that project had been given continuity, today the stadium would be standing, instead it was decided to overturn everything after the elections».
Instead, "the years have passed and the Region has allocated the promised resources only in 2023, in February, with the latest budget, but it has done it", and this is the catch, "in an informal way: instead of concentrating the only for that work did he see fit to bind the Municipality of Cagliari to the signing of an overall program agreement in which there is everything ».
The agreement voted by the Regional Council and passed to secret ballot with only two votes, foresees that a series of interventions will be carried out together with the stadium , such as the new city hospital, the new regional office hub at the former Trieste-Stallaggio barracks , the completion of the university campus in viale la Playa, as well as the upgrading of the university structures along the axis of via Trentino. «Works», Agus insists, «on which the Municipality of Cagliari itself clearly disagrees, such as the new city hospital, on which we discovered a resolution of the Region dated June 1st which is not yet available for consultation».
(Unioneonline/E.Fr.)
