ITMPE. The assessment has been done since 2015 for municipalities and since 2017 for city councils. It uses the scales desirable (between 0.75 and 1), moderate (0.5 and 0.75), insufficient (0.25 and 0.5), critical (0.01 and 0.25), and non-existent with a score of 0, and the values of the scores were up to 1000 (for example desirable would be 750 up to 1000) before 2018. In the 2015 and 2016 editions, the only city hall to reach the desirable scale was Recife. In the 2017 edition Jaboatão dos Guararapes entered this scale and in the 2018 edition 101 more city halls also entered, making their percentage increase from 1.09% to 56%. The municipality of Recife was in first place in all editions except the 2018 edition, in this one it was the municipality of Jaboatão dos Guararapes with an index of 0.94. With respect to municipal councils, in the 2017 edition none reached the desirable scale, the one that ranked first was the one of Palmeirina (the one of Recife was in the 48th position). In the 2018 edition, 56 councils (30.4% of the total), including Recife, reached the maximum scale, and the one that ranked first was Lagoa do Ouro, with an index of 0.96 (Recife's index: 0.83). Electoral corruption Based on data released by the Superior Electoral Court, the Anti-Electoral Corruption Movement released a balance sheet on October 4, 2007, listing the parties and states with the highest number of parliamentarians terminated for corruption since 2000. Pernambuco appears in fifteenth place on the list, with 14 parliamentarians terminated, tying in that position with Pará and Maranhão. State symbols Flag The current flag of Pernambuco is inspired by the Pernambucan Revolution. It is similar to the one used by the revolutionaries of 1817. The only difference between the two flags is that the current flag has one star in the center instead of three. The 1817 flag was made by priest João Ribeiro de Melo Montenegro with the collaboration of Antônio Alvares and tailor José do Ó Barbosa and, after being forgotten for some time, was rescued by governor Manuel Borba for the commemoration of the centenary of the revolution through decree No. 459/1917. The flag of the Pernambucan Revolution was hoisted for the first time on April 2, 1817. According to the state government's website, the blue color of the upper rectangle symbolizes the greatness of Pernambuco's sky;