The Metropolitan City of Sassari , established, was never born. With consequent loss of huge resources destined for the territory. For this reason, the mayor of the capital of Turri, Nanni Campus, has presented his resignation in the hands of the president of the Region, Christian Solinas, and the councilor for local authorities, Aldo Salaris: the post of president of the underground network remains vacant.
«In all these years the non-recognition of the Metropolitan City of Sassari has led to a huge inequality in the resources assigned instead to the Metropolitan City of Cagliari, through funds from the Pon Metro and the PNRR destined for the metropolitan cities, compared to those assigned to the territory of the Metropolitan network of Northern Sardinia», reads the letter. Still in the Metroplus National Program and Southern Medium Cities of the 2021-2027 European agenda, the Metropolitan City of Sassari is not included among the other metropolitan cities and Sassari has been included in the list of medium-sized cities, together with Porto Torres, as the only representatives of the territory of the North West of Sardinia, "perpetuating a very serious disparity between the resources assigned to the Metropolitan City of Cagliari and those assigned to this territory, with differences quantifiable, once again, in hundreds of millions".
The document continues by emphasizing the serious economic damage caused to Northern Sardinia by these delays: «Considering also the structural and economic gap that the persistence over the years, through the unfolding of the European agendas 2014-2020 first and then of the Pnrr, has determined to the detriment of the entire territory of North-West Sardinia and that now the continuation of such a disparity also in the 2021-2027 agenda makes it truly unsustainable to continue to suffer such discrimination".
Mayor Nanni Campus, in explaining his choice to the other first citizens of the Network, explains: «Since the gap that is being determined between the North and the South of our region has now become absolutely unsustainable, I feel I have to express the dissent and protest of a whole territory and I think I have to express it through my resignation as President of the Network".
The acting mayor is now the mayor of Alghero, Mario Conoci.
(Unioneonline/E.Fr.)