The Basilicata region is not in a recovery plan and was not appointed to prepare a recovery plan, but only to find coverage for ordinary expenses as the deficit that was ascertained by the Mef Compliance Table is lower than the threshold of 4.5 % of the Regional Budget. The commissioner ad acta has only one task, that is, to approve the coverage of expenses with a single act. In fact, it is an appointment provided for by law which has the sole purpose of conferring powers on the Commissioner in the person of the President of the Region to allow him with an ad acta decree to cover ordinary expenses.
President Bardi, in his role as commissioner ad acta, has until May 30th to identify the sums and cover them with funds already identified and committed. Precisely because he is an “ad acta Commissioner”, given this single act, he will cease his functions and everything will return to ordinary administration. The Health Department of the Basilicata Region clarifies this in a note following press rumors and erroneous considerations by certain political forces.
The minority in the Regional Council of the Democratic Party does not think so and today with a press release commented on the appointment as follows: “The news of the appointment by the national government of Vito Bardi as Commissioner for raising funds and drafting the 2023 final budget of the Lucanian health companies is the confirmation of the widely announced disaster of the centre-right’s management of healthcare. The recent accounting acrobatics and the liberal use of environmental compensation funds intended for job creation were not enough to avert the worst. We expect Bardi to lift the carpet under which he has hidden the dust and publicly clarify the situation. Even though he was lying on this crucial point, after winning the elections it is no longer his fate or that of the centre-right that is at stake, but the health of the people of Lucania, which comes before and above all other business interests.”
