Even loyalists are leaving. There's been a stir in the Executive Committee of Bastianino Mossa, president of Fasi, the historic Federation of Sardinian Emigrants, already reeling from the crisis in March 2026 (it split with the creation of Seu, the new association of clubs in Italy, which now has the majority membership). Now, four of Fasi's nine leaders, the same ones who defended Mossa during the chaos of the split, have decided to leave. Three have signed a lengthy letter, a barrage of accusations that cripples the leadership and administration. The fourth to resign, the youth coordinator, sent a brief note, but one that echoes the content of the other text regarding "a serious and persistent lack of transparency, collegiality, and shared strategic decisions."
Communication
The extent of the conflict is evident from the opening words of the first letter, dated May 27. "We submit our irrevocable resignation, requesting that this communication be fully recorded and attached to the official FASI documents," wrote vice presidents Nicoletta Menneas and Francesco Pongiluppi, along with councilor Giuseppina Pira. The second part summarizes the reasons for the decision: "This resignation constitutes a formal political, managerial, administrative, and moral distancing from decision-making and behavioral practices from which we have not been able to fully and consciously exercise our role. This decision was made following continued silence from the president, a lack of response to various projects and requests, and a lack of shared strategies and ideas in the leadership of the federation: a wall."
The Breakup Meeting
The height of the rift between the three resigning members and Mossa materialized with "the extraordinary meeting of the Executive Committee" in Piacenza on April 29, "requested by us vice presidents and which confirmed an extremely serious situation regarding the transparency, collegiality, and proper democratic functioning of the Federation. At that meeting, the president admitted to having acted on several occasions without consulting us: he spoke of reasons of urgency that, in our opinion, did not exist." Menneas, Pongiluppi, and Pira refer to specific incidents in the management of Fasi and Sarda Tellus, the Federation's e-commerce portal for the online sale of typical Sardinian products. These are extremely sensitive issues, a matter for the Supervisory Body established by the Statute, especially since the platform could go into liquidation, according to what the resigning members wrote. Thus we arrive at May 19th when, in the midst of the tug-of-war, the three representatives of the Fasi Executive contacted the regional Labor offices, which are responsible for Sardinian emigration.
Final thrust
"Only following a meeting with Councilor Desirè Manca did we have the opportunity to review the documentation on the Alghero Congress (the cause of the split)." Those documents "reveal a long series of requests, reminders, additional documentation, formal warnings, and objections from the Region, culminating in the precautionary suspension of all contributions to the Federation (€51,492 annually) and the reporting to the Ministry of Labor of alleged irregularities relating to the functioning and composition of FASI's bodies." The three resigning members recall that "the Federation is deeply divided, suffering from a loss of credibility and growing institutional isolation, in addition to the exit of twenty-four out of sixty-five branches." On May 28th, just one day after Menneas, Pongiluppi, and Pira, Alessandro Piras, the youth coordinator, resigned. He had replaced Gloria Sini, who resigned in March due to disagreements with the entire Executive Committee, including the last three who resigned. Piras's decision "stemmed from a profound distance from the presidency's current decision-making and management methods."
Alessandra Carta
