The Constitutional Court rejects the allowances of the councilors of the metropolitan cities of Sardinia. The Constitutional Court declared illegitimate two paragraphs, 1 and 2, of article 3 of the regional law number 17 of 2023, which had introduced these emoluments.
The appeal was filed by the government, which contested the increase in expenditure from the regional budget and stressed that the national law provides for the assignment to be free of charge . The Court upheld the objections of the Council of Ministers, reiterating - in line with its previous jurisprudence - that "the free nature of the functions assigned to the administrators of the metropolitan city constitutes a fundamental principle of coordination of public finances , which the law of the State has established to preserve the economic-financial balance of public administrations and which, for reasons aimed at guaranteeing the economic unity of the Republic, also binds the Regions with special statutes, such as Sardinia".
In the same ruling, published today, the Constitutional Court rejected the issue, again on the same law that provides scholarships for attending specialization schools for the non-medical health area. In this case, the Court stated "that the lack of funding, at the state level, of specialization schools is resolved in a rule dictated by a particular contingency, not expressive of any 'fundamental choice' systematically and coherently pursued, which cannot preclude the Regions from intervening in a regime and with their own resources, within the scope of the powers constitutionally attributed to them".
(Online Union)
