After the Audit Office of the Court of Auditors – which is examining the Ponte dossier with the resolution approved by Cipess last 6 August – passed the ball to the collegiate body, what will happen now? One thing is certain: the procedure must be concluded by 7 November and, therefore, after the hearing scheduled for 29 October, the Board of Accounting Judges will have to express the definitive opinion, evaluating whether to give the green light to the registration of the deliberative act in the Official Journal of the Republic (among the hypotheses, currently the most unlikely) or whether to say yes to the registration but with reservations (and here the Government would assume the political responsibility of implementing the implementation phase) or whether to ask for the total or partial reworking of the document. And this would entail the need to restart the process within the Inter-Ministerial Committee. But there is also the well-founded hypothesis that the Court of Auditors, to resolve doubts about its role in this matter, may turn to the Constitutional Court, and in this case it is not clear what the timeframe will be and whether, in the meantime, it will still be possible to proceed with publication in the Official Journal. It therefore becomes difficult to imagine that the first construction sites will be able to open in a few weeks, according to the announcements of the minister Matteo Salvini.
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