But in Sardinia, does Rome rule or Cagliari command? And if neither Rome nor Cagliari command, then who really commands?
These questions do not seem strange: despite their connatural impromptu nature, they could constitute the key to reading, probably banal but realistic, of a necessary turning point in order to which it is not acceptable to arrive unprepared.
Not later than a few days ago, I was reading, in fact, among the many news, that of the umpteenth appeal , of two laws fired by the Regional Council of the Sardinia Region last March 30 by the Council of Ministers and at the request of the Minister for General Affairs Mariastella Gelmini: that for the support and promotion of cannabis sativa, and that which extends from three to four the maximum number of possible mandates allowed to Mayors of Municipalities up to three thousand inhabitants, and from two to three those to Mayors of centers from three to five thousand inhabitants. Nothing to say on this point, if only it were not that the reasons given would mostly be attributable to the violation of Article 117 of the Constitution, second paragraph, letters l) and p), which punctually defines the areas of mutual legislative competence of the Regions and of the State, and if only it were not that the appeal concerning the extension of the mandate of the Statutory Auditors, on whose expediency could still be discussed at length given the implications of an instrumental nature connected to it, would seem "received" at the pace of a pressing timing right behind the electoral consultation almost as if to condition the results.
Let's be clear: the polemical spirit has nothing to do with the merit of the appeals (probably even founded by reason of the specific wording of the aforementioned letters "l" and "p" of the aforementioned law), not being able to directly and fully appreciate the drafting and content, but rather with the method, inspired by an evident statist and centralizing conception aimed at "recognizing", almost a priori, an "excess" with respect to the competences attributed by the Statute, which has remained, indeed, and unfortunately for us , in many cases not implemented by our political leaders who succeeded over the years to the government of the territory.
