On the map of Italian public administration, the Municipalities are the closest face of the State. They are even more so in Calabria, where they often represent the only visible institutional safeguard, the last mile between the citizen and Rome. Not a bureaucratic abstraction, but the door that opens and closes, the employee who calls by name, the traffic policeman who monitors schools and roads. It is there, in the rooms of the Town Halls, that the degree of civilization of a community is measured. And it is within those walls that the Cnel’s “Report on public services 2025”, through data from the OpenCivitas platform, wanted to look.
The scenario that emerges tells of a region that is still struggling to keep up. Spending for the administrative function in Calabria is among the lowest in Italy: 145 euros per capita, down 7% compared to the previous year. A fact which, translated into real terms, means fewer resources to guarantee services that elsewhere represent routine such as functioning offices, trained staff and, above all, certain times in responding to citizens’ requests.
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