Mayors and city councilors are blowing me against the General Accountant of the Republic. As they complain, the state payments that were made public a few days ago in the context of transparency, misrepresent the municipalities to have distributed, in the year 2018, an amount in excess of € 100 million as a state sponsorship.
Due to this misinformation, they told "F", they were unjustly targeted by citizens who asked for explanations, from social media, for the reasons that while there is a lot of money, the funds of the municipalities are empty.
In particular, the General Accounting Office of the Republic made public last Wednesday the payments in excess of € 1 million made by the state, during the year 2018, to natural and legal persons.
According to these figures, 29 of the 30 free municipalities are shown to have received the total amount of € 122 million as a state grant. However, the state sponsorship granted to the 30 municipalities for the year 2018 amounts to a total of € 53,5 million according to the data published by the General Accounting Office of the Republic on 29/3/2019 and related to the sponsorships paid by the ministries. for the year in question.
The difference of approximately € 70 million that arises, according to the complaining mayors, concerns taxes paid as well as payments for various services offered by municipalities to ministries, government departments and services.
Therefore, according to the General Accounting Office, the amount of € 122 million paid by the state in the year 2018 to the 29 free municipalities was distributed as follows:
Municipality of Nicosia - € 34,9 million of which € 4,8 million is state sponsored.
Municipality of Limassol - € 15,2 million of which € 6,8 million is state sponsored.
Municipality of Larnaca - € 10,8 million of which € 4 million is state sponsored.
Municipality of Strovolos - € 7,4 million of which € 4,3 million is state sponsored.
Municipality of Paphos - € 5,9 million of which € 2,5 million is state sponsored.
Municipality of Paralimni - € 3,4 million of which € 1,4 million is a state sponsorship.
Municipality of Aglatzia - € 3,3 million of which € 1,9 million is state sponsored.
Municipality of Lakatamia - € 3,2 million of which € 2,6 million is state sponsored.
Municipality of Engomi - € 2,7 million of which € 1,5 million is state sponsored.
Municipality of Kato Polemidia - € 2,5 million of which € 1,9 million is state sponsored.
Municipality of Agios Athanasios - € 2,4 million of which € 1,4 million is state sponsored.
Municipality of Aradippou - € 2,3 million of which € 1,6 million is state sponsored.
Municipality of Mesa Geitonia - € 2,3 million of which € 1,5 million is state sponsored.
Municipality of Ayia Napa - € 2,2 million of which € 854.940 is state sponsored.
Municipality of Latsia - € 2,1 million of which € 1,6 million is state sponsored.
Municipality of Germasogeia - € 2 million of which € 1,2 million is state sponsored.
Municipality of Agios Dometios - € 1,8 million of which € 1,6 million is state sponsored.
Municipality of Idali - € 1,8 million of which € 1,1 million is state sponsored.
Municipality of Sotira - € 1,6 million of which € 918.740 is state sponsored.
Municipality of Geroskipou - € 1,5 million of which € 995.443 is state sponsored.
Municipality of Geri - € 1,5 million of which € 1,1 million is state sponsored.
Municipality of Deryneia - € 1,4 million of which € 1 million is state sponsored.
Municipality of Ypsonas - € 1,4 million of which € 1,1 million is a state sponsorship.
Municipality of Polis Chrysochous - € 1,3 million of which € 756.081 is state sponsored.
Municipality of Dromolaxia & Meneos - € 1,3 million of which € 1 million is state sponsored.
Municipality of Athens - € 1,2 million of which € 911.177 is a state sponsorship.
Municipality of Tseri - € 1,1 million of which € 969.549 is state sponsored.
Municipality of Livadia - € 1 million of which € 964.121 is state sponsored.
Municipality of Pegeia - € 1 million of which € 813.118 is state sponsored.
The only free municipality that is not included in the list, because the state payments to the municipality did not exceed € 1 million, is the municipality of Pano Lefkara, which, for the year 2018 received a state sponsorship of € 650.191.
The contractors who distributed the € 77 million.
According to the General Accounting Office, an amount of approximately € 77 million relating to payments over € 1 million was distributed to the following contractors as follows: A. Panayides Contracting ltd - € 10,6 million for construction projects, Cybarco - € 6,4 million for road construction, A. Aristotelous Construction - € 6 million for school building improvements, Cyfield Development Public ltd - € 5,5 million for road improvement and maintenance, Cyfield Construction ltd - € 5,2 million for road improvements, Jacobou Construction ltd - € 5,2 million for road maintenance, Caramondani Bros Public Co ltd - € 3,4 million for building improvements, Nemesis Contracting - € 2,7 million for road construction, Lois consortium Builders & Phoenix Constructions ltd - € 2,6 million for road improvements, P. Demou & D. Pareklisitis Developers - € 2,5 million for school building extensions, N. Gabriel & Sons ltd - € 2,4 million for school building improvements, Homer & Artymatas Contractor Ltd - € 2,4 million for construction projects, Cybarco & A. Pa nayides - € 2,1 million for main road maintenance, Anchristou properties & Constructions ltd - € 2 million for road improvements, KOKIAS ltd - € 2 million for road improvements, A&A Apostolidis Contracting - € 1,6 million. for improvements of school buildings, Makis Savvidis and Sons - € 1,6 million for road maintenance and construction of military infrastructure, Kedris Construction ltd - € 1,6 million for road improvements and other construction projects, FAP Construction - € 1,5 million for road improvements, Semesco & Atlaspantou - € 1,5 million for breakwater construction, A.N. Ioannou Construction ltd - € 1,5 million for construction projects, Christakis Tziovannis & Co Construction - € 1,4 million for the construction of the coastal sidewalk in Ayia Napa, KEPA Attica & Cyfield Development Public ltd - € 1,3 million. for breakwater construction, Hadjikyriakos & Chapo - € 1,2 million for maintenance of buildings and offices, M. Bakaliaos & Sons - € 1,1 million for construction projects and General Construction Company - € 1 million for construction projects.
Source: Philenews / Michalis Chatzistylianou