Pre-election plans for all 30 existing Municipalities

They plan, discuss and decide on the thirty demarcated areas of free Cyprus, leaving aside the hot potato of the reform in the Local Government. An issue that will de facto be at the top of the agenda of the new mayors when they take office on January 1, 2017.

As everything shows, eight of the 30 new mayors who will emerge in the elections of December 18 will have to manage their abolition and clustering with other Municipalities.

According to the set schedule, it is expected that by the end of November the Parliament will vote on the bill on the basis of which the reform of the Local Government will be implemented.

And from the beginning of the new year, the gradual implementation will begin, which is expected to be completed in mid-2019. Despite the fact that the reform will be an issue that concerns in one way or another the vast majority of Municipalities, however no one does not open this discussion chapter.

Prodromos Prodromou, however, during a televised discussion on RIK, pointed out that "citizens should keep in mind that they will vote for those who will implement the reform." However, none of his interlocutors wanted to follow up.

But also in his party, DISY, they diligently avoid opening a discussion for fear of reactions and negative consequences.

Both DISY and the other parties understand what it means to go out and talk from now on about the Municipalities that will be abolished due to the implementation of the reform. It is well known that out of the 30 existing Municipalities, eight will cease to exist with the implementation of the reform.

The issue of the postponement of the municipal elections was connected with the implementation of the reform in the TA, but also with the developments in the Cyprus issue. The data as it stands today do not seem to justify any postponement of the December 18 elections.

EDEK clarified yesterday that "the announced intentions for postponement of the municipal elections are not aimed at serving the citizens" and "are done maliciously and do not aim at better serving and promoting the interests of citizens and local government." According to EDEK, such moves "aim at serving other people's interests and expediencies".

Source: Liberal