An extraordinary plenary session of the Municipal Council of Paralimni was held late yesterday afternoon with the main topic on the agenda being the local government reform bill which is before the Parliament for approval and relevant decisions on the future of local authorities.
During last night's meeting, which had on its agenda the issue of the prevailing scenarios which seem to be promoted in terms of mergers and the Integrated Spatial Development Strategy that is being promoted, the scenarios concerning Paralimni with the result of the Municipal Council were put on the table. to be divided into two camps as to whether or not Paralimni will be merged with other local authorities.
In the unified Municipality the disagreement
According to information, during yesterday's meeting, five of the municipal councilors of DISY, the deputy mayor Abraham Moulazimis (American), Anastasis Vlittis, Maria Moulazimi, Chrysostomos Flourentzou and Stavros Stavrou (Neophytou) decision of the Municipal Council in 2018 which provided for the merger of free Famagusta into a single entity and submitted a proposal to maintain the Municipality of Paralimni as a single entity, despite any mergers and without merging with any other local authority, expressing their reservations about the whether such action will make a positive contribution to sustainable local entities.
On the other hand, the Mayor Theodoros Pyrillis as well as the members of the Municipal Council, George Karas, Anastasia Tsokkou, Giannakis Potamos, Kyriakos Ioakeim, Loizos Loizou and Michalis Tsiolakkis submitted a proposal to maintain the initial unanimity of the Municipal Council, ie five local authorities of the free province of Famagusta in a single Municipality, which passed by a majority. For his part, the Municipal Councilor Efstathios Konstantinou submitted a proposal to wait for the Municipal Council to consider the new proposals of the Ministry of Interior and then to take any decision.
The prevailing scenarios for mergers in Famagusta
The scenarios which appear according to his information Famagusta.News to be considered by the Parliamentary Committee on Internal Affairs seems to be:
- Scenario A ':
- Union of all Municipalities and Communities of free Famagusta in one local authority (Paralimni, Ayia Napa, Deryneia, Sotiras, Avgorou, Acheritou, Achna, Liopetri, Frenaros)
- Scenario B ':
- Union of the Municipalities of Ayia Napa, Sotira and Liopetri
- Union of the Municipality of Deryneia and communities of Frenaros and Acheritos
- Maintaining the Municipality of Paralimni as an autonomous entity
- Maintaining the Community of Avgoros as an autonomous entity (Community Council) by clustering services with the community of Achnas
- Maintaining the Achna Community as an autonomous entity (Community Council) by aggregating services with the community of Avgoros
- Scenario D ' (proposed scenario from a reform proposal of the Ministry of Interior):
- Union of four Municipalities in a purely tourist Municipality of Ayia Napa - Protaras (Paralimni, Ayia Napa, Deryneia, Sotira
- Union of five communities in a purely rural Municipality of Kokkinochoria (Avgorou, Achna, Acheritou, Liopetri and Frenaros)
Nevertheless, the scenario that seems to have been passed by the Parliamentary Committee on Interior and to be promoted in plenary is the scenario of the five local authorities and specifically, which provides for the unification of the Municipalities of Ayia Napa, Sotiras and Liopetri, the unification of Municipality of Deryneia and the communities of Frenaros and Acheritos, the maintenance of the Municipality of Paralimni as an autonomous entity and the maintenance of the Community of Avgoros as an autonomous entity (Community Council) by clustering services with the community of Achnas and the maintenance of the Community of Achnas with an autonomous community clustering of services with the community of Avgoros.
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