Pirri must and can return to being an autonomous municipality. He is convinced of this and announces that mayoral candidate Giuseppe Farris will work for this, who this morning, supported by the CiviCA2024 list, filed all the documents necessary to participate in the electoral competition for Cagliari.
During the months of the listening campaign launched by the aspiring mayor , "the residents' serious discomfort due to the ineffectiveness of the self-determination tools made available by the Municipality and a non-negligible pride in identity clearly emerged".
Pirri, a historic Cagliari neighborhood of 29,000 inhabitants, remained an independent municipality until 26 April 1928, the year in which the fascist regime merged the town, together with Monserrato, Quartucciu and Selargius, into the Municipality of Cagliari.
«We could consider Pirri a peripheral neighborhood as it is located on the south-western outskirts of Cagliari, outside the city centre», explains Farris, «but it would be a serious mistake to consider Pirri “peripheral” also from a cultural point of view, as this community has its own economy, its traditions and a strong sense of identity rooted in its citizens".
Starting from the observation of specific cultural characteristics and the sense of belonging to a community that every Pirrese shows himself to possess, «in 2006 the municipal administration of Cagliari decided to attribute to what until then had been District number 6, the dignity of Municipality", recalls the candidate, who was then part of the Floris Council.
Which adds: «However, despite having been allocated financial resources and personnel for the exercise of its functions, this body has never managed to adequately and sufficiently achieve its self-management objectives».
Suffice it to say that, for years, "the section of the Municipal Police has been closed and that, at this moment, there is even a lack of Medical Guard".
Therefore the Municipality is weak, according to Farris, to satisfy the needs of the residents it is necessary to return to the autonomous Municipality. «Aware that the hypothesis of transforming Pirri into a separate municipality divides the inhabitants between those who believe that autonomous management can bring an improvement in the quality of life and those who, concludes the number one of CiviCa24, "we believe that the passage to the
