An old photo of mayors of the Marca
These are the arrears of the allocation of the 2015 solidarity fund launched by the Renzi government. For 3 years the mayors have been waiting for justice
TREVISO. Forty-four Municipalities of the Marca – lined up by six, with the rest of two – can march compactly to beat cash in Rome, perfectly aligned. By December the state must pay them the arrears, 24.575 million; and if he continues to fail to comply with the obligation already certified by a sentence of the Council of State in 2018, it will be the accountant general of the State, Biagio Mazzotta, to settle the account at the bottom of the list, as commissioner acts.
This was decided by the Council of State on Thursday. The 44 Municipalities of Treviso had again turned to the highest body of administrative justice in the face of the State’s “reluctance” in respecting the verdict An injunction for payment in Rome, which again saw the Marca triumph over the State.
A shower of money. Conegliano advanced 3.8 million; Castelfranco 3; Montebelluna 2; Villorba 1.3, to get off the others. A full success of the judicial line undertaken first by Marzio Favero, then mayor of Montebelluna, immediately married by the Acmt (association of the Marca Trevigiana Municipalities) led by Maria Rosa Barazza. Legal support of the lawyer Giacomo Quarneti, a recent advocate general of the Region; and Conegliano, with the then mayor Floriano Zambon, leader.
Those 24.575 million had disappeared from the funds that the Renzi government had distributed from the 2015 Solidarity Fund. “The right of the municipalities to have illegitimately unpaid money has been sanctioned again”, explains the lawyer Quarneti, “As was also recognized the obstruction of the State for not paying, or paying only a part of the 24.5 million ”. Delays first, with deeds and documents delivered after the deadline. And finally the November blitz, when the State Attorney General had asked to be able to pay only 10 million, with the help of a report from the General Accounting Office.
But the Council of State has re-established how the impossibility for municipalities to launch the budget, a public good par excellence, violates the constitutional principle of the financial autonomy of the municipalities themselves. Principle already established in 2018, when the Capitoline judges had confirmed the sentence of the Lazio TAR (2017) which sanctioned the right of the 44 municipalities to reimburse the cuts unduly made on the 2015 Solidarity Fund. measure of Palazzo Chigi. But neither the victory at the TAR of 2017 nor the one at the Council of State in 2018 had seen the state obey. Hence the new legal act in Rome, and the third full success. In a row. These are the 44 Municipalities: Altivole, Asolo, Carbonera, Casale, Castelfranco, Castello di Godego, Codognè, Colle Umberto, Conegliano, Fonte, Gaiarine, Giavera, Godega, Istrana, Loria, Mareno, Maserada, Monastier, Montebelluna, Nervesa, Oderzo, Town, Pieve di Soligo, Ponzano, Povegliano, Quinto, Refrontolo, Resana, Riese, Roncade, San Biagio, San Fior, San Vendemiano, Santa Lucia, San Zenone, Sernaglia, Silea, Spresiano, Susegana, Trevignano, Valdobbiadene, Vazzola, Vedelago and Villorba.ANDREA PASSERINI