2024-03-27 07:53:23
The regional councilors of the “People’s Party” request that the meeting of the Regional Committee be moved to the meeting room of the regional council, that minutes be kept, that the elementary procedure of questions, positions and voting be strictly followed and that the managers of the services be present to answer questions Rally”.
In their letter to the president Al. Kahrimanis and the members of the Regional Committee talk about the degradation and degeneration of the Committee, which meets in a place that is not suitable for the presence of journalists and citizens, which does not have the appropriate infrastructure for keeping minutes.
“The main problem regarding the meeting process, which is related to the inappropriateness of the space, concerns the lack of microphones and therefore the absence of the possibility of recording minutes for everything important and insignificant that has been said in the report and in the context of the opposition control. The non-recording of minutes leads to the impossibility of retroactive control of the positions of the committee members and hides the discussion that takes place. This can only be sought by anyone who wants to weaken public scrutiny and anyone who has something to hide. The conditions of the meeting lead to a conscious, complete degeneration of the discussion, which in every committee has the character of information and not dialogic, responsible discussion and voting. It is unthinkable that meetings with 100 topics, worth hundreds of thousands of euros, are deliberately and consistently sought by the majority to be completed in one to one and a half hours”, note the regional advisers of “LA.SY”, adding that the meetings under the responsibility of the president- governor, but also of the rest of the committee members have no structure and content, the procedure is not followed, not even a vote is taken, as a result of which the secretary of the committee contacts the committee members after the meeting to record the votes and possible retrofits.
“This procedure is probably convenient for the governor, who treats the meeting in terms of ‘spray, wipe, done’ but also the committee members from the majority and the opposition, who either have not read the written submissions to ask and to position themselves, whether they want the committee to operate in terms of “morning coffee between friends””, they emphasize, adding that such procedures do not hide the dozens of direct assignments and competitions without prior publication “which are now a scourge”, nor “the political priorities of the regional authority to support business interests at the expense of popular needs”.
“Nor of course the lightness with which the committee simply validates pre-decided decisions of the regional governor, without discussing and deciding, with a blatant absence of public control, can continue to be tolerated. All the members of the regional committee have a political and institutional co-responsibility to stop the complete degeneration of the meeting of the regional committee”, conclude the regional councilors G. Prentzas, K. Kotsantis, G. Aliftiras and K. Zekas.