Services to citizens at risk: It is the alarm launched today on behalf of all the mayors by the President of the ANCI Gaetano Manfredi. Speaking at 13/mo appointment of the National IFEL conference, the leader of the first citizens explained that “at conditions given, with the trajectory on public spending, The municipalities will soon be able to provide even the level of service that we provide today». At the same time, the request for greater autonomy for the municipalities emerged in the IFEL assizes. But the owner of the economy Giancarlo Giorgetti, who intervened by videoconference, kept to remember that “the 2025 budget law makes available to the municipal sector an additional 310 million euros, to be gradually providing between 2025 and 2030”. Speaking of the difficulties of municipal budgets, the discussion inevitably jumped on the tax impact. «I believe that increasing local taxation is very difficult – explained Manfredi – we already have a very high level of local taxation, then the idea that the municipalities increase the taxes and the central government reduces them does not seem very interesting to me. I would say that instead it would be interesting to work on the theme of sharing, which is not a theme only technical, it is also a political theme ». But then by the mayors the request for an epochal turning point is uniformly thanks to autonomy. In the foreground on this front, the man of ANCI numbers, Alessandro Canelli – delegate to local finance, president of IFEL and mayor of Novara – who urged to “start from article 119 of the Constitution” which “means recognizing greater autonomy of entry and spending on the municipal sector ».
It therefore means “to start again from where a path that had not even started was interrupted because in 2009 with Legislative Decree 42 a law had been set up which could have a big impact on our sector but which immediately stopped for the arrival of the period of austerity ». Then explicit the president of IFEL Pieciro Galeone who without laps of words recalled that after “a great debate on differentiated regionalism”, the time has come to adopt in its completeness also for the municipalities “Title V of the Constitution, starting from Article 119 concerning regional and local finance ». And therefore for the municipalities “we would like an authentic autonomy of revenue and expenditure, a equalization to which the state contributes and substantially the possibility of having a government of our budgets, because of this government the mayors respond to citizens”. The request comes after a short examination on the accounts of the mayors in recent years: “After the Covid period, an inflationary mechanism has triggered which – recalled Canelli in front of the audience of the administrators – has bitten not only Italian families but also many services provided by Municipalities that have had to increase their expenses by keeping the level of services substantially unchanged ». On the acute title V The speech of the president of Anci Lombardia Mauro Guerra: «The fact of reality, responsibility and functions leads us to think that the application of the Constitution should be rethought, and this is an all political theme. The technique must respond to a political -institutional project and then – he urged – a season of implementation of the card in favor of local autonomies is needed “.