Mafia, 401 Municipalities dissolved from 1991 to April 2025: Sicily among the regions at high risk
by Editorial Staff

May 22, 2025

From 1991 to April 19, 2025, there were 401 decrees dissolving municipalities due to mafia infiltration: on average one per month. This is what can be read in the Avviso Pubblico report, presented today in Naples.
72% of the municipalities dissolved due to mafia infiltration have a population of less than 20 thousand inhabitants. 96% of the dissolutions are concentrated in four regions: Calabria, Campania, Sicily, Puglia. In almost all the reports analyzed, the involvement, in various capacities, of mafia clans in electoral campaigns emerges: an attention aimed at obtaining or consolidating relationships with future administrations with a view to ensuring economic advantages. The ways in which this manifests itself are different: for example, there are episodes of intimidation against other candidates, lists signed also by individuals close to mafia organizations, situations in which the request for support to members of the clan comes directly from some candidates, cases in which the bargaining chip takes the form above all of hiring and job opportunities.