The CGIL and the FP CGIL had already launched the alarm on the financial situation of the Province of Cosenza, and today the numbers give them right.
From the report year 2024 which must be approved tomorrow, May 22, a dramatic picture emerges:. There Province of Cosenza declares a deficit of 82,686,980.95 euros, officially configuring itself as a structurally deficit body, with six out of eight parameters which exceed the critical thresholds established by the legislation.
The abyss is no longer a risk, it is a reality that approaches great steps. There Province of Cosenzaamong the largest in Italy, is sinking under the weight of years of bad financial management. For 2024 there are no budget balances, while the budget has now expired the distant February 28, 2025. It is once again the costs: it is the workers: Salari Accessories that are not disbursedseats blocked, and an administrative machine reduced to a minimum. The employees have been waiting for the payment of emoluments already accrued, provided for by law, such as extraordinary, allowances and productivity prizes.
The collapse parameters
The judgment is based on a technical grid defined by the consolidated text of local authorities. Among the most relevant: the parameter P1, which indicates that the expenses necessary to rearrange the deficit + the costs of the staff + debts affect over 41%; parameter P5, which indicates the non -sustainability of the deficit on the current year; The P6 and P7 parameters, which indicate growing debts and off -balance sheet debts, recognized or in the course of recognition.
The overall picture is bleak. The entity, already under observation for Six out of eight parameters outside threshold According to ministerial standards, it is not only technically “structurally deficit”, but it is practically in chronic predisposed. This highlights serious and incontrovertible conditions of imbalance. According to Tuel, the body will now be subjected to central control by the Finance Commission and local authorities on organic equipment and staff hires. The control will lead, primarily, to the verification of financial compatibility and the possibilities to start any type of intake.
The causes: bad management, waste, clientele policies and political inertia
To flow the expenditure chapters emerges a disturbing picture: millionaire external assignments, questionable consultations, unfinished but lavishly already paid projects. In parallel, no credible restoration strategy has ever been adopted. The management of cash flows appears approximate, while local politics seems to have privileged consent to sustainability. A situation that makes the arrival of a extraordinary commissioner To put order in accounts not only a hypothesis, but a real possibility.
The future? The entire apparatus is at risk
The instability, if officially, will not only be a term accounting: it will mean cuts, suspension of payments, blocking of the turnover, alienation of the public assets. But above all, it will mean for citizens An entity emptied of functions, authority and trust.
The Province of Cosenza approaches a point of no return. An announced, expected, almost searched instability. Still, nobody has been capable and seems really intent on avoiding it.