The Italian region of Sardinia voted to abolish many of its provinces in a referendum which saw a high turnout yesterday. Sardinia’s “yes” vote has a huge meaning. It represents the Italians’ first step to reduce the cost of their ridiculously expensive politics. Indeed, more provinces mean more assemblies, and therefore more politicians demanding more salaries and more funds. Most of these provinces were quite unnecessary: with only 1.668.128 inhabitants, Sardinia had eight provinces, an excessive number increasing Italy’s expenses in times of crisis. Now, after the referendum, provinces such as Carbonia-Iglesias, Medio Campidano and Olbia Tempio could be cancelled. The turnout was quite high for Sardinia (more than 35%), proving how sick the Italians are of their politicians’ waste. Among the issues the Sardinians approved there were cuts in the regional councillors’ salaries, the reduction from 80 to 50 members for the Sardinian Parliament and even the abolition of the historical provinces of Cagliari, Sassari, Nuoro and Oristano. The Sardinians’ choice is only the first step towards a measure that the whole of Italy should adopt. Source: La Repubblica the backwardness of sardinia is the consequence of the general social and cultural backwardness of the area not from any general attitute of the locals towards lazyness and dolism as in other areas of the mediterranean I will not mentionRe: Sardinia: signatures for the "referendum for independence"
Fri May 11, 2012 4:53 pm (PDT)
Saturday, 12 May 2012
Does Sardinia get more transfer payments from mainland Italy than they pay in taxes?
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yes they do
and around half of the working age population is composed by civil servants of some sort
but they aren't all of them the usual sort of perpetual dolists by choice
as demonstrated by the recent sardinian referenda
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