The recognition of insularity and its inclusion in the Constitution represented a long path that found the agreement of majority and opposition in Sardinian politics, in a collective effort aimed at achieving a fundamental objective.
But now that concept risks being emptied of its contents . To sound the alarm is Francesco Agus, regional councilor of the Progressives.
"I learn with extreme amazement - he writes in a letter sent to the president of the island Commission - that, without the slightest consultation with the Regional Council, with the political groups and with the same Commission that you chair, during one of the ritual meetings between the Presidents of the Region and Minister for Regional Affairs, President Solinas would have 'broadly shared the lines of differentiated autonomy' as proposed by the new government . This despite the fact that, jointly, during the work of the Commission the issue has been addressed several times and for three years there has been an in-depth discussion also regarding the potential dangers linked to the implementation of differentiated autonomy that in fact, in pursuing objectives of greater powers and financial resources for the richest regions of the country, reduces the rebalancing function between the high levels of development guaranteed in the Center-North and the chronic insufficiency of state interventions to support the social and economic growth of Sardinia ”.
Hence, Agus warns, "this reform proposal risks being the 's'accabadora' of every ambition on the island to improve its condition through the full implementation of the Sardinian special statute and the application of the principle of insularity as soon as inserted in the constitutional charter ".
For the councilor, it is urgent "to clarify at least the positions taken by Sardinia in the national tables on the issues of institutional reforms and to avoid that the long and tiring path carried out also in the Regional Council to obtain rights that have been denied for too long is nullified by hasty declarations and not adequately weighted: did the President of the Region take into account the work and resolutions approved unanimously by the Insularity Commission? Is it possible to know the 'guidelines' proposed by the Government and approved by the President of the Region without consultation? This is not a secondary or purely formal question. The work done up to now is precious for the present but above all for the future and cannot be thwarted by the behavior of individuals ".
