At the CISL congress in Arborea, the President of the Region took stock of Sardinia's position during the worst moments of the pandemic and the prospects for the next decades.
"The pandemic - said Christian Solinas - has forced a review of the political agenda of governments around the world, and has had absolutely unprecedented effects on the economic system. Despite the difficulties, the regional government has implemented and implemented, as the Bank of Italy and the Court of Auditors have certified effective measures that are giving a positive result ". Sardinia, he stressed, is the region that during the pandemic "invested more of its own resources than all the others to deal with the effects of the crisis, and offered tools, starting from the Resisto Fund to aid from the tourism sector and many other categories, which guaranteed support and resistance. But there is a risk of failure - he warned - if this financial commitment is not matched by the necessary human capital, that is, if the public sector does not have the internal resources to be able to quickly reach businesses and people with these resources. The last twenty years of policies of non-coverage of turnover, of violent contraction of the workforce in public administrations in all sectors - added the governor - have been a failure, a strategic and historical error. Today structural problems are coming to a head, such as the evidence that a health system cannot cope with thousands of more or less incentivized annual exodus, without coverage, without new hires ".
Among the themes touched upon in his speech, also that of depopulation: “The question of inland areas concerns everyone. Certainly in the first place those who live in territories now almost completely deprived of essential services, but the rest of the citizens are also involved. In this year's budget we decided on an immediate measure that would give an injection of liquidity to inland areas in order to combat depopulation. Offering those who have no prospect the opportunity to stay in their own country is the first step in ensuring that they do not close the shop, the bar, the school, or close other services. We therefore considered it essential to accompany families to the birth rate, recognizing for each unborn child a support of 600 euros each month, for the first 5 years of life, to allow us to plan a future for our children ”.











