A ten billion document, four months late , a president who celebrates as if she had rewritten history and an opposition that with sharp sarcasm dismisses everything as an accountant's homework. The 2025 Financial Law of the Sardinia Region has been approved, not without criticism even from the majority itself: "It should be approved at Christmas and not at Easter", decrees Francesco Agus, group leader in the Regional Council of the Progressives.
So more than a shared goal, it seems like the beginning of a never-ending electoral campaign, where every number becomes a political pretext and every paragraph a front line.
In Via Roma, however, one of the most anticipated (and longest) games of the year has finally come to a close – at least formally. The first Budget of the Todde era is a reality. And if for the president it is «a political law, not a technical one», the result of «choices and not waste», for the opposition it is little more than a double entry without vision. A document that «does not strategically address the problems of Sardinia», accuses Paolo Truzzu, group leader of Fratelli d'Italia, with words that seem like blades: «An unjustified enthusiasm. A style of someone who yesterday said he had abolished poverty and today is excited about a change of pace so slow that it will keep us in a provisional budget for four months».
But the enthusiasm of Alessandra Todde, the first female president of the Region, is strong . She speaks proudly of "over 800 million unblocked" and of "a job of mending the inherited delays". And then the agreement on the 3.7 billion in cohesion and development funds, a sign, she says, of "vision" and of "concrete consequences for the Island".
The Budget, in its intentions, focuses on four pillars: health, young people, transport and work. Almost half of the budget will go to health, the Reis is strengthened, funds for territorial continuity are guaranteed, and investments are also made in culture, tourism and urban regeneration, with 80 million coming. It is only "the first step", explains Todde, in a narrative that already looks to the future: "Einstein Telescope, new continuity, State-Region dispute to recover 1.7 billion".
