One hundred and forty hours (138 and 54 minutes, to be precise) for 40 total sessions from April to December: just over 15 per month. “That’s how much” the Regional Council of Sardinia worked according to official statistics.
The data was recently published on the institutional portal and is updated only for 2024, with the legislature headed by Alessandra Todde having become operational since April, with the first session on the 9th. In that month the assembly had met only twice, for a total of 3 hours and 23 minutes of activity. Three meetings and eleven hours the following month. Same time but in four meetings in June. July marks just three meetings for 12 hours.
In August the honourable members met five times and stayed longer: 23 and a quarter hours.
The room was almost always deserted in September: one meeting and 2 hours and 19 minutes of work. The 16 hours and 33 minutes of the following month (5 meetings) led to the “peak” of work in November: 12 summonses and 43 hours and 29 minutes of interventions in the room. But in December we returned to the average: 14 hours and 40 in five meetings.
Then there are the commissions. The data covers from May '24, the month of constitution of the six parliaments, to last February: 178 sessions in total for a total of 262 hours of work. Just under two hours per convocation.
From cold numbers to substance: the Regional Council in the same period (April-December) approved 22 laws (6 in December alone). Among these: "Urgent provisions on passive immunization against respiratory syncytial virus infection", "Amendments to regional law no. 25 of 1988 on the organization and operation of barracellari companies", "Creation of the European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation (EGTC) of the Mediterranean: establishment of a Euro-Mediterranean island EGTC" and also two laws on renewable energy: one is the moratorium (unconstitutional) and the other is the law on suitable areas (challenged before the Constitutional Court, like two other approved texts).
The documents show only one popular initiative law: the Pratobello against the invasion of renewables, supported by 211 thousand signatures. It has never been discussed.