The Sardinian president criticises Meloni by making a false claim: “We have already met the target for renewables.” But Sardinia is the region lagging furthest behind on the Pniec: it will meet the target 20 years late

The scientists stopped off at the M5S headquarters to speak to Conte and Todde. Did they give them a telling-off, given that Sardinia is, in absolute terms, the worst-performing region in Italy in relation to the Pniec targets? Not at all.

“The party was inspired by the values of St Francis, who viewed institutions as a service to citizens rather than as a means of personal enrichment,” says the comedian. The Sardinian M5S’s response: “We won’t take lessons in Franciscan morality from someone who has never followed it in their own life.”

Waste-to-energy plants – complex machines that burn the non-recyclable portion of municipal waste, generating electricity and often heat – are the bane of the Five Star Movement. In Sardinia, however, as in Parma, pragmatism has prevailed and an incinerator will come into operation in a few months’ time 

After three months of silence, the leader of the M5S is due to meet, on 7 October, the professors and researchers who wrote to centre-left leaders in May to denounce the delay in the installation of renewable energy plants in centre-left-governed regions, particularly Sardinia, which is governed by the Five Star Movement’s Alessandra Todde.

The Constitutional Court has ruled that the Sardinian regional government’s suspension of authorisations for green energy plants is unlawful: this is the third time in two years. The island is the region lagging furthest behind on its decarbonisation targets