"Ideological guerrilla warfare" and peace in Sassari. At the city council meeting on Tuesday at the Palazzo Ducale, tensions flared over the agenda proposed by Walter Pani, leader of the Progressive Party. The sparks were unexpected, given the topic: adherence to the Charter of S'Aspru, signed in 2023 in the community of Padre Morittu, which, among other things, invokes Article 11 of the Constitution and the rejection of war "as an instrument of aggression and a means of resolving international disputes."
The second item on the agenda committed the council and mayor to appointing a Peace Delegate. This proposal came five months after the ANCI's adoption, which, Pani says, "formally invited the municipalities of Sardinia to deliberate their commitment." But why three years later and not immediately? Cadeddu offers his own version: "A political and instrumental response to the decision of the NATO summit of June 25." At that summit, it was decided to invest 5% of GDP in military spending. The FdI group leader then disputes a phrase in the Charter that states "we must abandon strategies of death and any hypothesis of nuclear apocalypse." "Unacceptable words," he denounces, recalling Italian peacekeeping missions, such as that of the Sassari Brigade, without any intent of aggression, and concluding that this is an insult to the Armed Forces. He then defines the Peace Delegate as "phantom," the recipient of "a formal position," and brands the initiative as "hypocritical, useless, because at most it produces an article in the newspaper, irrelevant, and reductive."
Furthermore, he claims that the city council is being used for "ideological guerrilla warfare." Mayor Giuseppe Mascia vehemently counters: "We don't make ourselves look good by exploiting Father Morittu's work or by getting an article in the newspaper. It's shameful to support him." He rejects the opposing side's arguments, particularly the anti-government one: "I could engage the offices to let you know how we're losing money with this government, but that's what happened with previous ones."
All things considered, if they really want to attack the government—and they don't, anyway—there are other arguments. He also specifies that the delegate will be Mario Pingerna, president of the city council, inviting everyone to have broader horizons and not to judge agendas like the one under discussion as "frills." In the responses, some say they are "disturbed" by Cadeddu's attack, others fear the emergence of potential war scenarios, others say we must not stop calling for peace. In the end, everyone votes in favor, except the Brothers of Italy trio, who reiterate their opposition.
