The issue of the cleanliness of the city was the dominant one on the agenda of today’s municipal council of the municipality of Athens, the update on the actions of the Cleanliness department by the deputy mayor Roxani Evangelia Bey and the presentation of 11 initiatives for cleanliness by the mayor Haris Doukas. However, the situation got out of hand for a completely different matter.
The occasion was a report of him Kostas Bakoyannis during his placement, when he said that “Many times in this municipal council, Golden Dawn has supported the municipal authority”.
This caused his faction to explode Harry Doukas and the intense confrontation between the two sides. The process was interrupted for a while and then the mayor of Athens took the personal floor and said:
“Mr. Bakoyiannis today completely escaped. He disrespected the memory of the dead cleaning worker by making highly derogatory and ironic comments. He tried to identify our faction with the Golden Dawn. The fact that he cannot accept his defeat in the elections is his own problem. However, the fact that he is trying to distort the truth in the municipal council is a problem for all of us. His personal bitterness cannot push him to provocative, insulting and vulgar extremes. His absolute identification with Maximus’ line only does damage to the city. Despite the slanders and immoral attacks, Athens is and will remain a city of democracy.”
Immediately after, Mr. Doukas persistently called Mr. Bakoyannis to withdraw, but he refused. “The world has it and you have hidden pride,” he added. “Unacceptable, it’s a shame,” replied Mr. Doukas, and these rebuttals continued for some time.
Then the leaders of the other factions took the floor. Kostas Zachariadis said, among other things: “You provoke, Mr. Bakoyannis, the serious debate about cleanliness. You are turning fascists into regulators and I refuse as a democrat to show Golden Dawn as a regulator.”
“Games are being played beyond the municipality, this is what these escalations show and are disorienting,” said Nikos Sofianos.
Charalambos Yotis verbally attacked Mr. Bakoyannis, speaking of a “tragic image of the Municipal Council”, adding that there is no Golden Dawn in the Board.
Kostas Papadakis and Eleni Papadopoulou spoke about the pointless confrontation, said that what happened is offensive to everyone, and condemned it.
Doukas: 11 initiatives for cleanliness
The deputy mayor, Roxani Bey, proceeded with a detailed briefing on the actions of the Cleanliness and Recycling department, while she also referred extensively to the additional problems that have arisen, such as over-tourism, which has dramatically increased the waste footprint in the city.
As a whole, the opposition factions talked about a serious problem in Athens and a bad image of the city regarding cleanliness.
The mayor of Athens, Haris Doukas, referred to the 11 initiatives and actions for a clean Athens. These 11 initiatives and actions are:
– Creation of a Cleanliness Control Team from mixed levels of control with municipal police officers and cleaning supervisors, starting on 2/9 in the center and from 9/9 in all municipal communities, to record violations and immediately impose fines.
– The municipality puts into full operation from 1/10, the Waste Transfer Station (SMA), ensuring the most efficient and environmentally friendly management of the city’s waste.
– Placement of additional bins in places with an overflow problem, improvement of congested points, surveillance at the points and additional “satellite” routes for the removal of waste outside of bins.
– Upgrade of the anti-graffiti service in streets, parks, squares and public buildings, for the immediate and effective removal of unwanted slogans and images.
– Installation of 62 submersible bin systems in strategic points of the city, which will help to improve the aesthetics of the urban environment, reduce odor and manage waste more efficiently.
– Creation of a new cleaning application (app) to inform citizens about the waste collection times by area and placing QR codes on bins for information regarding the times and the correct way of depositing waste.
– Organization of cleaning actions six days a week in all neighborhoods of the city with the most extensive and intensive action taking place every Sunday.
– Extension of household bio-waste collection after the 5th, 3rd and 7th arrondissements, with parallel information campaigns and distribution of household bins to residents and professionals within September, to facilitate the sorting and recycling of waste at source.
– Start of a “broom operation” for abandoned cars, with registration of new abandoned vehicles and removal of old ones on a weekly basis per apartment.
– Cooperation with institutional bodies in order to define the cooperation framework for waste deposit schedules, bio-waste collection, etc.
– Activating the network of volunteers with cleaning actions throughout the city.
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