And whereas the time for the assembly of the PASOK Central Committee is now counting down, in Harilaou Trikoupis the 4 direct assignments of the Athens municipality to a former minister of the PASOK, a former deputy of the get together and two different individuals who have “contacts” raised plenty of dialogue with the faction.
At a time when the processes within the PASOK are at a vital level, the primary scandal for Haris Doukas broke out with the disclosure of the direct task of 30,000 euros by the Municipality of Athens to Katerina Batzeli for the supply of consulting providers to his improvement firm of the Municipality, on condition that the Ms. Batzeli was one of many first to boost the query of a change of management after the European elections.
A couple of hours after the revelation, Mrs. Batzeli introduced that on this “unusual section of get together developments” she chooses to not signal the precise contract.
Specifically, talking to Motion 24, he mentioned: “I’m a freelancer, I’ve been working out there for a few years with giant firms and I’ve by no means been an worker, in any public physique. Due to this fact, throughout the political sensitivity that distinguishes me and never desirous to hinder the work of Mr. Doukas, I publicly declare that I can’t signal this contract. It’s my reply, as a result of it impacts me politically, I’ve by no means related my skilled profession with politics.”
This was adopted by the revelations about three different contracts totaling 67,884 euros regarding the former MP of Fokida of PASOK, Aphrodite Papathanasis, Nicole – Aikaterini Dimitrakopoulou and Angeliki Vosdogani, daughter of Nikos Vosdogani, an in depth affiliate of Fofi Gennimata, who has been director of the press workplace of the Change Motion.
The response of the Municipality
Circles of the Municipality of Athens gave a solution in regards to the contracts that had been signed just lately and prompted reactions. The Municipality of Athens emphasised, amongst different issues, that “with a sequence of malicious publications, some are attempting to hurt the Municipality of Athens, its workers and finally the Municipality’s effort to provide work for the good thing about the Athenians”, whereas it identified that “the brand new Municipal Authority of of Athens chooses its companions, with the only criterion of their benefit”.
“He selected and can proceed to decide on executives with data, expertise and expertise, and never based mostly on which get together they belong to and what they vote for. The authorized procedures we observe are those adopted in all of the Municipalities of the nation for companions and advisers of the administration”, the identical sources emphasize and add: “That’s the reason among the many companions of the Municipality, there are worthy executives who’ve labored efficiently, alongside and in earlier municipal authorities, equivalent to with Dora Bakoyannis, Giorgos Kaminas, Kostas Bakoyannis, individuals who come from many and completely different political areas, and shut long-term collaborators of the present President of PASOK, Nikos Androulakis”.
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