In the Metropolitan City of Cagliari, and precisely at Palazzo Regio, the meeting on “The Sardinian Municipalities towards the Pnrr” took place. The event saw among its protagonists, among others, the mayor of Nuoro, Andrea Soddu, in his capacity also as president Ali Sardegna, the mayor of Cagliari, Paolo Truzzu, as well as the councilor for Local and Urban Planning Region, Quirico Sanna, leading expression of the Sardinian Action Party.

A significant opportunity and at the same time a challenge not to be missed to discuss the future of the territory in the face of the potential that the National Recovery and Resilience Plan would seem to be able to offer. In the meantime, because the Municipalities, especially those of the South and the Islands, as they are disadvantaged due to the functional "gap" that exists compared to those of the more fortunate Northern Italy, will find themselves having to manage huge resources, probably encountering many difficulties in the act of the financing and investment operations of the funds: in essence, at the time of the "grounding" of this which I could almost define as a unique and unrepeatable "donation" in the history of the country and the Union. Therefore, because the "triple track" that characterizes the northern, southern and insular areas of the country acts as an element of constant imbalance and could further contribute to widening the development differential between the different macro areas in which it seems to be, and indeed it is, organized the entire national perimeter. Finally, for the sake of brevity, but obviously much more could be noted, because if it is true, as it is true, that the funds coming from the National Recovery and Resilience Plan can constitute a useful opportunity for the revitalization of disadvantaged territories, however, it seems to appear as equally true, in my humble way of considering, that, in order to avoid the useless waste of resources, it would be necessary to set up a sort of "Specialized Operational Structures" of a managerial nature, whose name can be discussed at a later time, suitable for guide, without conditioning it, the initiative and the work of the auditors who, otherwise, could find themselves exposed, in spite of themselves and unjustly as far as they are concerned, to even significant responsibilities directly related to the exercise of their functions.

Not for nothing, speaking precisely about the amendments proposed by the ANCI in relation to the bills being examined by the Senate, the former president of the Sardinia Region Ugo Cappellacci, today deputy and coordinator of Forza Italia Sardegna, explicitly stated, on his page Facebook, its support in favor of all mayors, ie those who represent the "first point of reference of the citizen in the territory", specifying, among other things, that it would not be a question of ensuring them "a form of impunity, but only the respect for the guarantees for the person and the role exercised ".

But, having said so much, and in my opinion rightly if it is reflected in the ideological context of reference, that is the one relating to the realization of the best interest for the administered communities, how can those substantial resources be able to find their finalization? Yes, this is the decisive question: because above all we in Southern Italy and the Islands have to deal with a degrading narrative that usually, as probably unjustly, has always described us as wasteful of resources due to original inability and functional parasitism. . Without considering that it is precisely the geographical connotation of the territory, so-called "leopard spot", that requires "different" and "other" forms of intervention compared to those that characterize the Northern Regions. Underlining again and again a circumstance that has always been in the natural order of things could even appear annoying to the ears of those who, addicted to large numbers, continue to want to consider this part of Italy as a ballast from which to unstuck as soon as possible. Yet, despite the all too many natural obstacles and infrastructural waste that up to now have compromised the economic potential of the South, of the Islands, of their mountain resorts, of their natural villages, this immense fragment of depopulated and tired territory, even devoid of those which should be the essential services useful for the survival of the reference community, can still express a very strong economic and entrepreneurial vocation if only the whole Politics were committed to the preparation of a Relaunch Plan which, far from simplistic and de-empowering generalizations, tackles with firm determining the situation with the intent to resolve it. There are internal areas, poorly connected with the largest urban agglomerations, affected by persistent phenomena of constant depopulation that only through a more equitable distribution of resources could be revitalized and enhanced. The logic of circumstantial welfare cannot constitute a real and lasting basis for intervention because, specifically, it is not a question of "compensating" for the inconvenience caused by a critical event such as the health emergency was, and continues to be pandemic. It is necessary to understand, and consequently decide, what role is intended to be attributed, within the Italian System, to the South and to the Islands, which, and which, cannot continue to represent a simple basin from which to draw the workforce from re - to employ in the industrial sector of the North. All the more so when you want to reflect honestly and critically on a specific circumstance: that is the one for which the real Gordian knot is substantiated in the concrete and rapid implementation of investments by the Southern Regions, whose activity is compromised, most of the time , from cumbersome bureaucratic mechanisms that are very difficult to overcome in the absence of rational and balanced planning.

It is one thing to talk in terms of reducing the territorial gap, as easy to say as it is difficult to achieve, it is quite another to understand if, in fact, the ability to use and finalize those huge resources will be realized.

Giuseppina Di Salvatore

(Lawyer - Nuoro)

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