Provinces broke (2)

(ANSA) - Rome, December 7 - The head of the Union of Italian Provinces (UPI), Achille Variati, on Wednesday wrote to President Sergio Mattarella saying that because of government cuts provincial governments can't manage to put together their 2017 budgets, leading to "very heavy' cuts to local services next year. Provincial governments were due for the axe under the government's overhaul of Italy's political machinery but that reform, among others, was rejected in a Constitutional referendum on Sunday.