The national bill that aims to introduce the direct election of the presidents of the Provinces and provincial councils was approved today by the First Committee, Autonomy and Regional Order, of the Council. The parliament chaired by the dem Salvatore Corrias gave the green light unanimously to the text proposed by his party colleague and group leader Roberto Deriu.
Inside it there are two articles . The first acts on direct election by modifying the current national law (56 of 2014) with the repeal of the part of article one that provides for the indirect election of the president of the intermediate body and of the provincial council, referring to the discipline of the Consolidated Law on Local Authorities. The text also reintroduces the council as a body of the Provinces, which in the 2014 law had been replaced by the assembly of mayors.
"We are convinced," Corrias says, "that with this bill, approved unanimously in the commission and hopefully also in the Chamber, Parliament and the Government cannot remain indifferent to a request for democracy and the restitution of full constitutional dignity to the Provinces." Deriu recalls how "in Parliament there are several proposals from the majority and also from the opposition in this sense. We think that after the Italians have confirmed the Provinces in the Constitution, their bodies should be elected by universal ballot ."
A political gesture, supported by all groups, even in the center-right. In Sardinia, indirect elections for the six provinces (Oristano, Nuoro, Nord-Est Gallura, Ogliastra, Sulcis and Medio Campidano, which together with the two metropolitan cities of Cagliari and Sassari design the institutional structure of the Island), should be called by April 30, 2025 and held within the following 60 days, as established by the law approved at the beginning of the Todde legislature that extended the deadline. "We want direct elections", reiterates Deriu. "We are studying, also in relation to the government, what can be done". An open game "to return the scepter to the sovereign people", clarifies the leader of the Democratic Party .
