Fifty million in five years. This is the amount of cuts made by the Meloni Government to the budgets of the Municipalities of Sardinia until 2029, according to the calculations of the Sardinian parliamentarians of the Democratic Party Silvio Lai and Marco Meloni: «All», they accuse, «to cover the crazy expenses that the Executive is making, from the Bridge over the Strait to the centers in Albania, to the various amnesties and scrapping. In short: gifts to tax evaders and an increase in the tax burden, in the face of the many electoral promises of Meloni and Salvini».
The accounts predict a cut to municipalities in Sardinia of 4.6 million in 2025, 9.3 million in 2026, 2027, 2028 and 15.7 million – and growing – in 2029. For a total of 48.5 million euros.
More specifically, according to Lai and Meloni: Cagliari will suffer 5,723,527 euros in cuts in 5 years, Sassari 2,940,099 euros, Olbia 1,744,844 euros, Tempio 399,780, Nuoro 825,662 euros, Lanusei 170,993 euros, Oristano 810,552 euros, Iglesias 675,718 euros, Carbonia 713,064 euros, Quartu will suffer a total cut of 1,337,956 euros. And again: in the province of Sassari Porto Torres will pay a total cut of 592,803 euros, Alghero 1,184,918, Ozieri 270,722, Sorso 358,410. In the province of Cagliari 249,256 euros for Elmas, 355,334 euros for Monserrato, 544,835 for Selargius, 291,285 for Sinnai, 408,169 euros for Sestu.
"We have said it insistently during the discussion of the Budget Law", explain the Democratic Party representatives, "the Municipalities will be forced to cut services to citizens or increase local taxes to make their budgets add up, already in difficulty due to the effects of inflation and contractual increases, which - as in the case of canteens and social assistance and the adjustment of the national contract of social cooperatives - require cost coverage by the State".
All this while the Region "is forced to resort to ordinary justice to get paid the almost two billion euros of debt that the State has accumulated on the basis of the rules on revenue sharing, and all is silent regarding the rules and resources needed to overcome the disadvantages deriving from insularity, recognized by the Constitution and completely forgotten by the right-wing government", conclude Lai and Meloni.
Enrico Fresu