«The increase in Sardinia's GDP? Solinas has little to cheer about: the cause is the basic income». Commenting on the data in the latest Istat report is the regional councilor of the Democratic Party, Cesare Moriconi, intervening with a straight leg on the president of the Region, who had enthusiastically greeted the growth of 4.2% compared to the national average.
An increase "that does not admit to being misunderstood by citing it, as he does, to improbable merits of the action of the regional government, but is explicitly ascribed to the
effects of the citizen's income, so much so that all the southern regions, where the percentage of recipients of the CI is higher, have recorded a more accentuated increase in GDP».
Istat writes that “in 2021, the disposable income of families, marked a more intense growth compared to 2020 in the entire South, compared to the rest of the country. This is because, in the South, total income was mainly supported by the "citizenship income" which, added to the measures to combat the pandemic, generated increases above the national average, so much so that Basilicata recorded a +4.9% , Puglia +4.6%, Campania +4.4%”, all clearly higher not only the national average but also the +4.2% recorded in Sardinia”.
For Moriconi " there are two things: either President Solinas hasn't read the Istat report well, or even in this case we are faced with a conscious and deceptive distortion of the economic reality of the island, which unfortunately conflicts with the tangible effects of the 'worsening of the crisis'.
The exponent of the Democratic Party takes the Istat report and reads it in a very different way: Sardinia, he says, "retains its position among the last regions in the ranking of GDP per inhabitant, going from 21,752 euros in 2019 to 21,745 euros in 2021, with an increase, the worst figure among the regions of the South, equal to just 20 euros, while for the same period Basilicata increased its GDP by 675 euros, Puglia by 298 euros, Campania by 184 euros, Calabria by 78 euros and Sicily 40».
(Unioneonline/E.Fr.)