LAMEZIA TERME I am 133in Calabriai municipalities recipients of confiscated real estate (in total there are 1,870 assets destined)Of these 67 those who do not publish the list on their websiteas required by law, equal to 50% of the total, while there are 66 who publish information on the confiscated assets destined for them.
This is what emerges from third national report on the state of transparency of confiscated assets in local administrationsrealized by Free in collaboration with the Abel Group and the department of Cultures, politics and society of the University of Turin and with the contribution of Istatpresented at Trame13 festival in Lamezia Terme (Cz).
The negative record is up to the municipalities of Province of Vibo Valentia where out of 20 municipalities receiving confiscated assets, 13 do not publish the list; the photograph is no better for the municipalities of the Province of Crotone where out of 11 municipalities there are 6 that do not publish the listfollows the Province of Cosenza with 7 municipalities out of a total of 19 and the Province of Reggio Calabria with 33 municipalities out of the 67 recipients of confiscated assets. For those of the province of Catanzaroout of 16 municipalities, half are non-compliant.
In general, the negative primacy in terms of absolute transparency goes to the municipalities of southern Italy (including islands) with 248 municipalities that do not publish the list. Followed by Northern Italy with 87 municipalities and the Center with 51. At the level of individual regions, among the mostvirtuous” – those that reach or exceed 70% of the municipalities that publish the list – there are the Liguria (87.5%), theEmilia Romagna (84.4%), the Puglia (79.8%) and the Piedmont (78.2%).
Among those postponed with a percentage below 50%the Basilicatathe CalabriaThe Lazio and the Molise.
Specifically, it should be noted that the 4 regions stuck with 0 municipalities complying in 2022 (Basilicata, Molise, Trentino and Valle d’Aosta), in 2023 they made a leap forward. Overall, the data improves in all regions, with significant peaks, considering the regional weight, however Campania, Piedmont and Liguria. Calabria slowly rises from 18.8% to 49.8%. The same goes for the Sicilywhere, compared to 29.9% in 2022, in 2023 it reached 56.5%.
«In any case, it is good to remember – underline the authors of the study – that these considerations must be read with the utmost caution, given the significant number of confiscated properties that local authorities in these regions are called upon to manage. There are three provinces that have been assigned confiscated assets that do not publish the list: Crotone, Matera and Messina., while Calabria and Lazio, among the regions monitored, are the only ones not to publish anything”. (AGI)
