On the evening of Thursday, April 18, 2024, on the television channel of Kozani, FLASH, the interview of the Mayor of Kozani, Mr. Yiannis Kokkaliaris, recorded on Tuesday, April 16, 2024, was aired on the show of journalist Katerina Markopoulou ¨In the red’, who, among other things, was asked about the matter of the Registry of Aianis. I note that on Monday, the day before the interview, he had sent a document to the Ministry of Interior requesting not to proceed with the merger of the registries and to freeze the matter. he didn’t mention it either. He hid it as if it were a sin.
I recommend you to see it (from 16THE minute to the 27thTHE ) and to …..evaluate it.
Certain points of the interview as he said and my comments.
- “We sent a document to the Ministry asking if all the registries of the former Municipalities could be merged. It wasn’t just Aiani’s. It is from Hellespont, which unfortunately has not had a registrar for three years, it is from the Municipality of Elimia which also does not exist……..and Dimitrios Ypsilantis whose employee is retiring”
My comment: . Mr. Mayor, you asked the Ministry of the Interior to merge all the registries. Enough with this story. The paper speaks. It has a voice too.
- “So we thought about it very well, in the sense that the KEP today of Aiani has only one person and it cannot function with only one person. …..So what did we say? We said that the registrar who last year had forty-one (41) acts of death alone !!! ….to go to the KEP and from there offer the services of the registrar …. “two birds with one stone”, comments the journalist …. “Yes Yes….”
My comment: Wow! Forty one (41) acts of death alone !!! That is, Mr. Mayor, how many must die in order for us to have a number of acts of death that is considered sufficient and to justify the stay of the Registry Office? Do you understand what you are saying?
- Will the registry office close or not? (the question) “Look, we said the following: we will discuss it with the citizens, we will communicate it and from there we will decide”.
My comment: My narrow knowledge to have you first?
- “We wanted to send a purely official document and for this reason many deputy mayors were not aware of this document because we wanted to see the Ministry’s intentions.”
My comment: what intentions, Mr. Mayor? Stop underestimating us and your partners. You have sent your posts.
- “I also explained it to the Municipal Council. We will not make a decision without anyone knowing anything. It will come to the Municipal Council, it will be discussed again and there we will make the decision.”
My comment: In the d.s. Mr. Mayor, you said that you are waiting for an answer from the Ministry first and then you will discuss it.
- Some mistakes were made Mr. Mayor and you are a person who recognizes your mistakes, I have heard you and sorry and thank you in your vocabulary (the journalist). “Of course of course.” the Mayor answers. . “The deputy mayors said something else, you said something else…. and there was a discussion of cafe I would say, although I don’t like the word((the journalist)..
My comment: Cafe then. When you do not respect and ignore the laws, the circulars, the O.E.Y., the decisions and your colleagues themselves, that is where you are led and that is the impression you give. .
- “For think of a citizen of the former Municipality of Hellespont, who does not have a registrar there, but the deeds are done from Kozani, today he necessarily has one hundred and forty-four (144) deeds., one hundred and sixty deeds a year and Aianis has forty one… Without a registrar there. The Municipality of Hellespont would tell us that we want a registrar too. There is no human being. Or they would say bring us the registrar of Aiani here because we have three times four times more”
My comment. Mr. Mayor, recruit administrative and technical staff for all Municipal Units. Let everything work everywhere. Do not raise such issues and lead us into confrontation with the residents of the other villages..
- “We have plans for Aiani. Because Aiani has been affected all the previous years and only historical seat they did not give it the basis…which should also be the attention”.
My comment. What plans do you have, Mr. Mayor? Where have you written them so we can read them. You didn’t have a pre-election program. You didn’t hold a pre-election rally in Aiani. Unless your plans are whatever comes up along the way.
- “To be a truly historic seat… Just the sign of the registry office doesn’t say anything to me”.
My comment. The historical seat means nothing. No privileges for Aiani. Empty content term is . And we, the Aianiotes, never claimed it. It arose as a trick of Mr. Ragousis under the pressure of executives of his party at the time to pass on to the people the abolition of the Municipality. Treat us proportionately and equally with others.
- “However, the same services that a citizen enjoys even in the city of Kozani should also be enjoyed by a resident of Aiani.”
My comment: So, Mr. Mayor, are you going to install district heating in Aiani?
Are you going swimming? Will you put public transport? Will we have a daily rural clinic, a staffed home help program? What is meant?
The registry office in Aiani also provides the same services.
The case of Aiani is now in the hands of its citizens. We too have plans for Aiani.
Eternal April 20, 2024.
Tsellos N. Giorgos
