Solinas to Montecitorio: «The insularity tax for Sardinians costs 5,700 euros per year»

The insularity gap costs every Sardinian 5,700 euros per year on average . The bill was presented today by the President of the Region Christian Solinas before the members of the Bicameral Commission for combating the disadvantages linked to insularity.

This afternoon the hearing of the Sardinian governor was held in Montecitorio: «Insularity determines the loss of 5,700 euros per capita, which would correspond to over a quarter of GDP per capita and approximately 9.2 billion euros of lower annual product, equal to approximately 26% of the overall GDP in 2019 ".

Solinas calls it the " insularity tax ", underlining that the resulting loss of overall GDP "is quantified between 6.1 and 12.2 billion GDP, i.e. between 18 and 35% of the overall regional GDP ».

The commission is taking its first steps: it started from Sardinia for the first series of hearings and will continue with Sicily. Solinas sent a dossier to all the commissioners and in the report he also highlighted all the limits of the current system of territorial continuity.

Then he was pressed by questions from parliamentarians, in particular the Sardinians Alessandra Todde (M5s), Marco Meloni (Pd), Francesca Ghirra (Avs), Dario Giagoni (Lega) and Silvio Lai (Pd).

Todde asked him about the 166 million on which the Court of Auditors noted the lack of allocation in expenditure chapters . «This observation - Solinas' response - arises from a 'misunderstanding' on the legal qualification of those sums, the correct one arises from the need to proportionally reduce the provisions. For this reason the offices of the region and the state have interpreted to allocate the resources from the entire budget of the region"

Pressed by Ghirra on the road mobility system on the island, he said: «I was appointed commissioner of 11 works, a large part of which did not have full financial coverage. The delays are often due to the increase in prices which has lengthened the procedures and blown up the economic coverage , but now we are trying to remodulate the funds to give priority to the works closest to financial coverage, such as the Olbia-Arzachena-Palau ».

Finally, the governor spoke about energy, retracing the various stages up to the challenge of Mario Draghi's decree: « There will be no need for a controversy , the discussions with the Government lead us to think that we will be able to have an agreement and resume the reasoning that had been interrupted , that decree had been adopted unilaterally, without any provisions of agreement with the Region".

(Unioneonline/L)