In Montoro, in the province of Avellino, the local Five Star Movement group has publicly appealed to Mayor Carratù and the municipal administration to adopt a formal resolution supporting constitutional challenges concerning fiscal federalism and differentiated autonomy.

According to the report in IrpiniaNews, the proposed resolution would express support for appeals before the Constitutional Court and call for compliance with Article 119 of the Constitution. The report documents the request; it does not establish whether the mayor or the municipal council subsequently adopted the proposed resolution.

What the Montoro appeal asks for

The request is political and institutional rather than administrative: the M5S group is asking the Municipality of Montoro to take a formal position through a council resolution.

That resolution, as described in the local press report, would:

  • support appeals brought before the Constitutional Court on aspects of fiscal federalism and differentiated autonomy;
  • advocate full compliance with Article 119 of the Constitution on the financial autonomy of municipalities, provinces, metropolitan cities and regions.

The wording matters. The available evidence supports a request for the municipality to approve a resolution in support of constitutional appeals, not direct participation by the mayor in litigation.

The stated concern: weaker tax bases

The group's stated concern is financial. According to the report, replacing direct state transfers with participation in local tax revenues could disadvantage municipalities with weaker taxable bases.

That assessment is presented in the report as the political position of the Montoro M5S group. The available sources do not independently quantify those effects for Montoro, and this article does not treat the warning as a measured fiscal forecast.

For readers in Irpinia, the practical question raised by the appeal is whether municipalities with smaller or less wealthy tax bases would have the same resources to fund services if funding depends more heavily on locally collected revenue.

National context: Law 86/2024

The national framework behind the debate is Law 86/2024, which provides the procedural framework for granting additional forms of autonomy to Italy's ordinary-statute regions under Article 116, paragraph 3, of the Constitution.

A central point for readers is the law's link to essential service levels. The law makes the transfer of functions involving civil and social rights conditional on the prior determination of the relevant essential levels of service, known in Italy as LEPs, that must be guaranteed throughout the national territory.

In other words, for services tied to civil and social rights, autonomy is connected to first defining the minimum levels that must be assured everywhere in Italy.

Campania and Constitutional Court judgment 192/2024

Campania was among the regions that challenged Law 86/2024 before the Constitutional Court.

The Court's judgment 192/2024 concerns those constitutional challenges, including appeals brought by Campania, Puglia, Tuscany and Sardinia. The decision was adopted on 14 November 2024 and deposited on 3 December 2024.

The sources used here do not provide a complete account of every provision affected by judgment 192/2024, so this article does not summarise the ruling's full legal outcome. What is established is that Campania participated as a challenger and that the Court issued a judgment on the challenges to the differentiated-autonomy law.

That regional context helps explain why a municipal debate in Montoro refers to support for constitutional appeals: the law has already been the subject of region-led challenges before the Court.

What is not yet known

Three limits should be kept clear:

  • It is not established whether Mayor Carratù or the Montoro council has adopted, rejected or scheduled the proposed resolution.
  • The available material does not establish the current legal or administrative status of any proposed network of municipalities and regions.
  • The financial impact described by the M5S group remains a stated political concern, not a quantified finding for Montoro in the sources reviewed.

The next verifiable step, if it occurs, would be a public act by the Municipality of Montoro: discussion, vote or publication of a resolution. Until then, the story remains an appeal for a position, not a decision.