Postponement to autumn and not to next year for the elections of the provincial bodies in Sardinia, according to the new structure defined in the last legislature with six intermediate bodies plus two metropolitan cities. By virtue of an amendment to the text, already modified in committee, passed in the Chamber, the elections of the presidents and provincial councils will be called by the president of the Region by July 2025 and will take place within the following sixty days, September 2025.
The referendums in the Municipalities that have already expressed and will express (within ten days of the entry into force of the text) the choice to change the Province to which they belong will take place, instead, "at the same time as the first round of the administrative elections", on 8 and 9 June 2025, also in conjunction with the national referendums promoted by the Cgil.
The Regional Council approved, in extremis, this morning the bill signed by the Pd group leader Roberto Deriu and the councilor of Orizzonte Comune Lorenzo Cozzolino and illustrated by the president of the first commission (Autonomy) Salvatore Corrias, modified several times during the process and amended directly in the Chamber with the anticipation of the dates. The text, of a technical nature, provides first of all the reopening of the terms "for the verification of the will of the territories involved to be part of a Province or Metropolitan City different from that proposed by the current, provisional, territorial structure", and the establishment of the period within which the popular consultations must be officially called.
From this, the promoters explained, comes the need to postpone the elections of the provincial bodies. The deadline for calling the elections initially expired tomorrow (already postponed in the previous legislature) and with this rule, which also aims to buy time while waiting for the issue of first or second level consultations to be resolved at a national level, the aim is to guarantee the Municipalities affected by the referendum representation within the chosen body. The third, consequent provision of the law is the extension of the Provincial Commissioners appointed in September 2024 to manage the transition until the elections. Criticism from the center-right minority who spoke of "yet another extension" and "the usual delays". For many members of the opposition it would have been preferable to "vote immediately also with the second level election and not waste any more time".
(Online Union)