"I express great satisfaction with the pronouncement of the Tar of Sardinia which has given my office right in asking for compliance with the law and administrative procedures for the designation of the municipal council of the Municipality of Loiri Porto San Paolo but I also express great sadness in having to note that it was necessary to appeal to the Administrative Judge in order to affirm the full recognition of respect for genders in the composition of the councils and the full restoration of legality ".
With these words, the Councilor for Equality of the Sardinia Region Maria Tiziana Putzolu commented on the verdict of the Sardinian TAR which, by canceling the deeds of constitution of the Giunta, canceled the Council of the Gallura municipality.
The Municipality of Loiri, Putzolu underlines in a note, "has never respected the Del Rio Law, which obliges the new mayors of municipalities with populations over 3,000 inhabitants to pay the utmost attention to equality, providing that neither sex can be represented by less than 40 percent, with arithmetic rounding ".
Not only that: the Municipality itself "has never responded to requests from the Equality Office".
"I sent - adds Putzolu - always to all institutions at all levels, starting with mayors and mayors, a note in which I asked that the composition of the irregular councils be reviewed, informing both the councilor for local authorities and the President of the ANCI Sardinia. I took the problem to the highest regional institution, the Regional Council of Sardinians, so that the issue would find adequate support and never get to ask for a pronouncement from administrative justice. outside, because the problem is not that of ensuring that the underrepresented sex - in the vast majority of cases the female sex - has the right respect, but, above all, that in a state of law the laws and administrative procedures must be respected . Indian reservation ', nor, in short,' women's stuff '".
The question is not merely formal, continues Putzolu: "It is important that the Public Administration respects the legislation because a municipal council made up of men and women in a balanced way reflects the composition of society that starts from the maximum inclusion of all under-represented subjects in political participation and underlines that a society that can be said to be better only if it reflects the noble face of real life in its democratic expressions ”.
