After a hard hand, behind-the-scenes consultations, scenarios and reactions for the prevalence of different scenarios regarding the merging of Municipalities and Communities, the three bills are led today to the Plenary Session of the Parliament, which convenes from ten in the morning.
The landscape is still cloudy as the parties keep their papers tightly closed with the main reactions focusing on the scripts of mergers despite the essence of the local government reform, with the parties proving for the umpteenth time that all they care about is, in the end, the attempt to dominate the party map.
This is easily understood if one notices that from 62 amendments of the three bills, most concern the chapter of mergers, but also the conduct of referendums. Specifically, 50 of them focus on the bill for the Municipalities, which as it has been formulated provides for the reduction of the Municipalities to 20.
The lever of pressure for the parties is the attempt to approve referendums, despite the fact that, as the Minister of Interior recently hinted, if such a thing is approved, it will prove a complete failure of the elected representatives of the citizens themselves to pass a bill.
AKEL, EDEK and Ecologists' Movement have tabled amendments to hold local referendums, while the DIKO for holding a pan-Cypriot referendum. On the other DISY and DIPA tabled amendments against the referendums as a whole. With the exception of DIKO, all parliamentary parties have tabled amendments on mergers.
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