The Regional Council has approved the resolution that gives the go-ahead for the appeal to the Constitutional Court against the order for the dismissal of President Alessandra Todde, notified in early January by the electoral guarantee board of the Court of Appeal of Cagliari.
The executive's measure was adopted following the motion of the Regional Council which committed the governor to raise the conflict of powers with the State.
The thesis underlying the appeal is simple. If the president falls - given the electoral mechanism approved by Sardinian law - the entire Regional Council is dissolved. But, they argue at Villa Devoto, the assembly body can fall only in the cases provided for by the Statute. And if we are talking about a vote of no confidence in the Chamber, death, serious violations of the law or acts contrary to the Constitution (and then the Quirinale would intervene), the possibility of dissolution on the basis of a provision such as the injunction order issued by the guarantee board (considered a "state body") due to a mess in the reporting of electoral expenses, as happened in the Todde case, would not be contemplated.
In the meantime, the appeal to the ordinary court presented by the team of lawyers who protect the governor's interests remains standing : the first hearing is set for March 20.