For now, the conflict is swinging one way or the other. The Region is not happy when it starts a dispute with the State. Between 2024 and 2025, at least nine measures were challenged by the Government, affecting key sectors of the Sardinian system: healthcare aside , these laws concern energy, the simplification of urban planning and construction regulations, landscape protection, and even local transport . Many of these were subsequently rejected by the Constitutional Court.
The government's long series of appeals began on August 30, 2024, with the rejection of Law 5 , the so-called moratorium . It provided for urgent measures to protect the landscape, including an 18-month suspension of the construction of new renewable energy plants (wind and photovoltaic) in Sardinia. In December 2025, the Constitutional Court declared the regional law unlawful.
But among the issues to be resolved, as mentioned, is the healthcare system, which in Sardinia continues to be a system without governance, on the verge of paralysis. Doctors, healthcare workers, and unions are deeply concerned. With no councilor, no company commissioners, no top management, no certainty whatsoever, with decisions at risk of annulment, rulings of unconstitutionality, warnings, appeals already underway and others ready to be launched, what will happen from now on? Such chaos has never been seen before, while citizens await treatment and services, the Five Star Movement and the Democratic Party bicker, the opposition highlights an extremely dangerous institutional vacuum, and the regional president continues her own course, intending to appoint new general managers at the regional government meeting, scheduled for tomorrow or on New Year's Eve.
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