
The report of the Court of Auditors highlights a strong territorial and structural criticality in the local authorities of Southern Italy.
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The Court of Auditors has presented a report to Parliament on the state of crisis of Italian local authorities. The document analyzes the frequency of financial distress proceedings over the last five years.
Over 80% of the municipalities that have declared financial distress in the last five years are concentrated in three southern regions: Campania, Calabria and Sicily. This is what emerges from the report from the Court of Auditors to Parliament dedicated to local authorities in crisis situations.
The territorial concentration of procedures
"The critical aspect - say the accounting judges - is the strong territorial concentration: Sicily, Calabria and Campania account for 63.6% of the overall crisis procedures activated and 80.4% of the declared failures".
Calabria, Sicily and Campania are the most exposed
The report highlights how in Calabria 54% of the Municipalities have experienced at least one procedure, in Sicily 41% and in Campania 39%. "In the most affected territories - we read in the document - the crises cannot be traced back only to the management of the single entity, but reflect economic, social, organizational and institutional factors that affect the entire multilevel system, with a strong heterogeneity of regional interventions, including financial support, technical assistance, prevention funds and autonomous monitoring systems".

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