2024-06-21 07:16:44
The KEDE opposition requires a dynamic assertion of the statutory assets that the nation’s municipalities are entitled to from the central state, so as to cease the native self-government from being the “poor relative”, which is moreover assigned duties with out the corresponding assets and means.
The mayor of Ioannina, Thomas Begas, throughout Wednesday’s assembly, as a member of the Board of Administrators. of KEDE conveyed to the Home the most recent developments as they have been mentioned on the assembly of the Board of Administrators of the Central Union of Municipalities of Greece final week, stressing that unanimous choices – protests that find yourself within the drawers of ministers, don’t deliver outcomes.
“I consider that each one municipal authorities, with out exception, want to implement insurance policies producing outcomes for his or her locality. We don’t refuse to tackle critical duties and duties, however the query is how and below what circumstances. The central state very simply transfers powers and duties to self-government and to the citizen. And naturally he doesn’t cross on the straightforward ones, however the troublesome and harmful ones. Attribute examples are the switch of accountability for the administration of strays and naturally the latest switch of accountability for hearth safety. And what’s the technique adopted? Initially, the shock and secondly the switch of duties with out human and monetary assets and means”, Mr. Begas initially stated earlier than including: “Society ought to know this stuff and we as a self-government should spotlight them in order that they are often attributed to us the true duties that fall to us”.
He then identified that on the final Board of Administrators of KEDE emphatically highlighted the truth that if the state paid self-government what it was legally entitled to based mostly on its revenues, it must pay 6.5 billion euros for 2024. As a substitute, only one.8 billion euros will attain the coffers of the municipalities, which correspond to roughly 30% of the entitled statutory assets of the self-government.
On the similar time, he famous that the subsidy for power prices was stopped despite the fact that it didn’t escalate that a lot and introduced the instance of SYDLI, the place the passing of its price range is a “Gordian hyperlink” as a result of excessive power prices which can’t be coated by its revenues Affiliation with the end result that the price range is just not balanced. “Total, it’s a widespread discovering that the landfill price, elevated wage prices and power prices blow up municipal working prices,” he famous.
Actually, the faction of the most important opposition within the KEDE emphasised the necessity instantly and after the tip of the European elections to request a gathering with the prime minister and the co-competent ministers in order that these main points are dropped at their consideration intimately and in case they don’t seem to be understood, to have extra dynamic types of protest corresponding to demonstrations and symbolic closures of city halls.
“The practices of the unanimous choices of the Board of Administrators of KEDE in relation to those points and their transmission to the related ministries after which the non-response on their half have been exhausted. Particularly in our municipality, considering the painful transition to the following day, after the abolition of enormous authorized entities and the necessity to combine them into the Municipality Group, but additionally the truth that we have been compelled to function in full progress after the price range was handed on the finish of March , the state of affairs grew to become much more suffocating, forcing us for the 12 months 2024 to run behind the wants and developments”, concluded Mr. Begas.
Commenting on the Mayor’s place and particularly the final report, the top of the most important opposition, Dimitris Papageorgiou, spoke of “excuses”, calling on the municipal authority to “buck up and work”.
Throughout the pre-agenda dialogue, the problem of water provide issues was additionally raised, with V. Kosmas submitting a sequence of proposals, whereas Oli Tsoumanis submitted a decision proposal for the assist of PGNI’s fixed-term contract holders.
Condolences for El. Kalogiannis
Condolences to the top of the faction “Ioannina 2023” Tatiana Kalogiannis, but additionally to all the household and family members of the deceased former MP of Ioannina Eleftherios Kalogiannis, the heads of all factions expressed at the start of the municipal council assembly, stressing that the deceased left his mark within the political affairs of the place.