Haris Doukas to protothema.gr: PASOK Coming in Second Is a Failure – I Would Never Work with Tsipras

Two years into his word arsenic Mayor of Athens, Haris Doukas takes banal of what helium has and hasn’t accomplished. He admits to a dilatory commencement successful the archetypal 2 years, arsenic helium was unfamiliar with however section authorities functions, but present says his medication is picking up velocity successful implementing its program. Doukas characterizes Kostas Bakoyannis arsenic a “bad mayor,” saying helium was fixated connected superficial projects that caused problems successful Athens, specified arsenic the “Great Walk” (Megalos Peripatos).

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Speaking astir Athens’ postulation congestion, helium describes the concern arsenic suffocating and calls for the accelerated acceleration of Metro enlargement projects. He acknowledges that amerciable parking remains a occupation and says helium volition proceed to region licence plates and contented fines, contempt nationalist backlash. In Kolonaki, helium notes, a caller “I Won’t Pay” question has emerged, with citizens urging others not to wage their parking tickets. He further proposes expanding the fines truthful they are nary longer cheaper than backstage parking fees.

On transgression and cause trafficking, Doukas says that cause dealers fundamentally hold for addicts extracurricular rehabilitation centers tally by the municipality. “If the constabulary don’t region the traffickers, I volition region the rehab centers from the metropolis center,” helium says. He besides directs disapproval astatine the Ministry of Health: “The Municipality tries to cleanable up the metropolis squares from drugs, and the Ministry goes astir handing retired syringes astatine nighttime successful those aforesaid squares.”

Doukas disagrees with those who deliberation hunger strikers’ tents and banners for the Tempi bid clang person nary spot astatine the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

On governmental developments, helium insists that PASOK indispensable purpose for archetypal spot successful the adjacent predetermination and that coming successful 2nd would beryllium a failure. He notes that PASOK’s existent polling numbers are not satisfactory, but besides that Nikos Androulakis cannot proceed arsenic a “president connected probation.” He calls for a enactment congress, from which wide positions indispensable look – primarily, that determination volition beryllium nary post-election practice with New Democracy.

Regarding Alexis Tsipras, Doukas intelligibly states that helium would ne'er align with him, arsenic helium belongs to PASOK and lone PASOK. He says that PASOK voters gave him a connection successful the party’s interior elections: 1 cannot beryllium some a politician and a enactment leader. However, helium adds that the section of “national governmental leadership” is not closed for him.