URGENT:A Greek Mayor on hunger strike for 57 days!
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Under the shadow of the austerity measures of the I M F ,a Greek Mayor defends the local authority boundaries of his Municipality, which the Greek government illegally changes. A huge ecological blow to Athens.
The famous
throughout Greece for his democratic struggles Mayor of the City
of Hellinikon
Christos
Kortzidis, today completed 57 days of hunger strike. Municipality of
Hellinikon,a
southern suburb of the Greek capital, which owns the site of the former
Athens International Airport, sees its local authority boundaries to be modified by an arbitrary and illegal decision of
the Greek government under the program called "Kallikrates", dictated by the
austerity measures imposed to the country by the International Monetary Fund.
The results of this
violent change, if implemented, will forever change the lives of the inhabitants
of the Greek capital and that city, and would legitimize the illegal
occupation of hundreds of acres beach land belongs to the Municipality from private companies that
have been
tolerated by
the Greek
Governments for years ,thanks to
the corruption regime
afflicting the country.
Converting a large part of the
former Athens
International airport and the beach in residential and commercial
areas will destroy the dream of the people of Athens for decades visualizing the creation of a big metropolitan park in
the
ecologically
impaired and overcrowded Greek capital.
Barrier to such projects is the Municipality of
Hellinikon
whose the
consent was never obtained when the government decided to abolish
its local authority boundaries.An elimination which is illegal under
the European Charter of Local Self-Government, that demands consent in these cases.
The
Greek government, within the context of the overall deficit of democratic
rules that is existing in the country since the military
dictatorship of 1967, a fact that is unknown in the outside world , has refused to sign and implement
during 1985
the Article 5
of the European Charter of Local Self-Government that requires consensus to change the
local boundaries of municipalities..
Please:
Express your support to the Mayor of
the Municipality of Hellinikon:Send e-mail at dimosellinikou@hotmail.com
Complain to the Greek Government:
Send e-mail at gpapandreou@parliament.gr and ypourgos@ypes.gov.gr
Feb 7, 2012 - 23:34
