By Despina Vlepakis

Determined to legalize the amendment for him Unknown Soldier denouncing unconstitutionality appears o Harry Doukas. According to his sources Municipality of Athensthe Municipality has been cleaning the area and the square until now, with the only “red line” being the names of the 57 victims of Tempe which, as it has been announced to all sides, the Municipality is not going to erase.

“The Municipality of Athens every day – and of course during the 23 days that Panos Routsi was on hunger strike – cleaned the area and the square. As well as with additional crews, he immediately cleaned the area after the large demonstrations that have taken place in recent months. What the Municipality of Athens made clear from the beginning is that it is not going to erase the names of the 57 victims of Tempe. “The municipality has never communicated to anyone that it does not want to exercise this authority,” say circles of the Municipality of Athens.

Haris Doukas’ legal advisers are working out the next steps and making court appointments for the amendment.

“The municipality of Athens will defend with every means – legal and institutional – the exercise of every competence, which the constitutional legislator has foreseen to be exercised by the municipalities. Apart from the clear provision of Article 102 of the Constitution that “the administration of local affairs belongs to the local self-government organizations”, cleanliness is the first responsibility transferred to municipalities by the 1833 Royal Decree “On the Establishment of Municipalities” and has never been removed since.

The Mitsotakis government is the first in the country’s history to legislate and arbitrarily remove part of the authority from the municipality of Athens. It falsely claims that the area is not being cleaned, in order to divert the eyes of public opinion from its serious political failures and intra-governmental quarrels”, note sources from Kotzia.

The municipality of Athens, both during its meeting with the Minister of National Defense and through public statements, supported and supports a clear position: It will clean the square. He will not erase the names, insist Haris Doukas close associates who clarify that the Mayor has not changed his mind, but is now deciding to take legal action against the amendment and not all this time when the issue is in the public sphere, as now the Government has clarified its position and the Municipality will defend its powers.

“Government positions were characterized by backbiting and “creative ambiguity”, which is also reflected in the text of the amendment itself, which refers to “care” of the space.

It took a clarifying intervention from the government spokesman, who said that cleanliness falls under care. Obviously, these backbitings have nothing to do with the clear initial position of the Municipality of Athens, but with the internal quarrels of its ministers.

Now that the government has clarified its position, the municipality of Athens is starting all the procedures to defend its responsibilities”, emphasize sources of the Municipality of Athens.