In Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, financial justice alerts about community communication spending

A caricatural example of the drifts of communication, the region led by Laurent Wauquiez is not the only community to be pointed out by an unpublished study of the Regional Chamber of Accounts.

Rue89 Lyon On Monday 17 February, the Chambre régionale des comptes presented its report on the costs of local authorities in the Auvergne Rhône-Alpes region. Balance sheet: policies spend a lot (and more and more) on communication. And there are a few champion authorities...Vous hors de prix, local TVs... the combination of policies pinned by the Chambre régionale des comptes

The Chambre régionale des comptes has scrutinized the communication expenses of 13 local authorities in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. It highlights a lack of evaluation of their effectiveness, an illegal connection to the offices of the executive, from breaches to the rules of public order...

In 2023 and 2024, the Chambre régionale des comptes (CRC) controlled thirteen local authorities in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region as part of an investigation into their external communication. In Lyon, the report resulted in the opening of judicial information for "diversion of public funds by persons depositing the public authority". In the case of the [...] The article In Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, the com' des collectivités costs "between 30 and …