«Beyond the grotesque attempt to implicate us, namely those who had turned the spotlight of the great sailing circus on Sardinia, today there is a problem of real and concrete responsibilities, quantifiable in economic, reputational and employment damage for which the current Regional Council and also the Municipality of Cagliari, both "occupied" by the so-called wide field, will have to answer, first and foremost to the Sardinian citizens».
Called into question, the former president of the Region Christian Solinas responds to the accusations – made by the 5 Star Movement – of being the one truly responsible for the choice of Naples, and not Cagliari, as the venue for the 2027 America's Cup : a location proudly announced yesterday by the Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
Solinas refers to the past. When, as they say, he was there. And here is «the rooting of the Luna Rossa base in Cagliari, the planning of a hub for nautical industries and cutting-edge research in the sailing sector, the statements of the Luna Rossa team leaders about the choice of Cagliari as the venue for the America's Cup regatta, in the event of a victory in the Louis Vuitton Cup».
The winners of the previous edition, unfortunately not Luna Rossa, chose the regatta field, explains the secretary of the Psd'Az. So the winners of the English boat Britannia Ineos (he writes it like that, but New Zealand won, ed. )". A group that, according to Solinas, "should have been literally "besieged" by the current Sardinian regional council in September last year, so that it would choose our waters as the regatta field".
But this did not happen «and it is doubly “sad” for Sardinia that the choice of the America's Cup fell on Naples», but also that this defeat in the ambitions of Sardinia «was attributed by the Five Stars to a Council, the one that was chaired by me and that had won the trust of the great world of sailing and regattas, establishing a preferential relationship with Luna Rossa». But that executive branded Lega Quattro Mori «unfortunately could not have done anything if not by replacing the role that the current president Todde should have played».