In Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, the monetary justice alerts on communities communication bills | EUROtoday

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Fabrice Pannekoucke, President (Les Républicains) of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, and Laurent Wauquiez, deputy Les Républicains de Haute-Loire, in Lyon, September 5, 2024.

Political communication is a delicate topic, not straightforward to determine. In the accounts of cities, communities of municipalities, departments or areas, bills are diluted between the traces of a number of separate providers. “It is not easily visible. Which involves a lot of work to recover the information ”defined Barbara Falk, president of the Regional Chamber of Accounts (CRC) of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Monday, February 17, by presenting the unprecedented report dedicated to the comparative evaluation of the communication of a number of communities of various sizes of the second area of France.

The monetary magistrates responded to the request, expressed on the participatory platform of the CRC, of ​​residents curious to understand how a lot the communication of their elected officers prices. At the top of the management of 13 communities below this solely theme, for the interval 2018-2022, an remark was established: cumulative communication bills take a big share of native funds, from 0.5 % to three.4 % of working budgets, with a normal upward development, 30 % in 5 years. The Regional Chamber of Accounts estimates that the communication of communities prices a complete of 30 to 50 euros per yr to every resident of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, relying on its place of residential.

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