Statute, special commission takes office: a new electoral law within two years

Soru attempted to do so in 2008, but failed. Seventeen years later, the Sardinian Assembly is once again engaged in drafting and approving the first statutory law, the instrument with which the Region can define its own internal rules : the procedures for electing the Regional Council, the President of the Region, and the Executive Committee; motions of no confidence in the President of the Region; cases of ineligibility and incompatibility for the offices of President, Councilor, and Regional Councilor; and relationships between regional bodies. Today, the special commission on the statutory law was established. "We have given ourselves twenty-four months to approve the statutory law," announced Piero Comandini, President of the Council and of the commission itself. Therefore, within two years, it will be possible to have a new electoral law.

"This is a historic moment for the Region," he continues, "because we are drafting a statutory law that has never been passed before. The last attempt dates back seventeen years and was unsuccessful." Today, Comandini notes, " if we had had the statutory law, we wouldn't have found ourselves in this loophole that led to President Alessandra Todde's request for removal from office. Without the statutory law, the judges considered it an ordinary law that provides for incompatibility and ineligibility before the direct election of the president. If we had had the statutory law, we would have established the forms of ineligibility and incompatibility ourselves."

Beyond the forms of government, Comandini believes that "the revision of Law 1 of 1977, which concerns the organization of the Region and the responsibilities of the councilors," is important. The new statute, therefore, could reduce the current twelve delegations. And then there's the issue of implementing the Statute's provisions. "We have underappreciated the part of the Statute that would have allowed us, in our relationship with the State, to improve the powers provided for by the Statute itself." All the Council group leaders are members of the commission.