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The countdown for submission to the House of the Ministry of the Interior's bill on the reform of the institutional framework of local government ("Cleisthenes I" program) began
The Ministry sent the final text and the explanatory report to the Union of Regions and the Central Union of Municipalities of Greece (KEDE), in order to make their remarks and remarks.
Simple badogue as electoral system in municipal and regional elections
3 The 78 pages of the bill are distinguished by the establishment of the simple electoral system in municipal and regional elections. All city and regional council seats are allocated to the combinations that took place in the elections, based on the number of valid ballots received in the first round. If no combination is 50% plus 1, the vote is resumed the following Sunday (2nd round), between only the mayors of the two coalitions having obtained the most votes
The autonomous elections are disconnected from the European elections and will be held on the second Sunday of October (to be held on October 13), while the period of the municipal and regional period goes back to the four-year period of five years with the Kallikratis program. The establishment of the new authorities takes place on January 1 of the year following the elections and their term ends on December 31 of the fourth year
The number of municipal councilors candidates must be at least equal to the number of seats in each constituency, up to a maximum of 30%, instead of the 10% provided in the original text submitted for consultation
. "Kleisthenis I"
The final text also lacks the provision for the inclusion of Greens in municipal councils (such as cleanliness and public lighting), due to objections formulated primarily by the municipalities of the region
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"Cleisthenes" also includes provisions for strengthening institutions of citizen participation by announcing referendums by municipality and by region on local issues
The Institution of Support to Municipal and Regional Citizens, which was provided by "Kallikrates" had the expected results, is replaced by the municipal and regional mediator, for which 23 articles are devoted
Municipalities are divided into five categories according to their population, their particular geomorphological characteristics, the basic characteristics of economic activity within their borders, their degree of urbanization, their inclusion or not in large urban complexes and their place in the administrative division of the country
For the allocation of state funding to the municipalities (Central Independent Resources – CFP), only inclusion in the corresponding category but also other criteria such as the length of the water and sewerage networks, as well as the municipal and rural road network, the level of social services provided, the capacity to increase local resources, demographic fluctuations by season, demographic trend, etc.
opinion of the Greek mediator, the bill contains a provision, which provides for the remission of fees on the costs of cleaning and lighting for fixed badets
In addition, the municipality of Kalambaka is renamed Meteora and the municipality of Molos – Ag. Konstantinou in Kamena Vourla
The bill is supplemented by regulations for the modernization of the institutional framework for the organization and operation of the country's FODSA, as well as provisions for Faster granting of citizenship and naturalization
Source: REPE BETA
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