In one round the Elementary and Peripheral elections, as the government spokesman said, PAvlos Marinakis.
Speaking on the “Parapolitik” radio, he said the government is bringing a bill on Change of electoral law in Parliamentsaying that there will be a possibility for second choiceso that citizens do not come to the polls a second time. The government spokesman stressed that “there is no question of changing electoral law on national elections. The goal is self -reliance, we do not believe in cooperation governments. “
As he said In his report, last November protothema.gr What is qualified is “the country’s municipal and regional authorities will be elected in a single round. The voter who has the option of choosing a second combination on the same ballot paper. In the event that no combination has 50% + 1 vote on the valid votes of the first choice, the first two voting combinations qualify for the second phase of counting. The second votes (second selection) of the ballots of the combinations left out of the second phase are added to the votes of the first two combinations. Successful combinations declared anyone who has gathered a) during the first phase, 50% + 1 vote on the first selection documents or (b) during the second phase, most of the first two combinations, including the second votes of the second -phase combinations. The proposed change of the electoral system, on the one hand, solves the problem of diminishing voters in the second round of municipal elections and, on the other, eliminates the significant cost of the second round. “
In detail about the changes in the municipal elections, Pavlos Marinakis said:
We want to make a change whose goal is to reduce the discomfort of the citizens and to enhance participation in a round. The core of the bill to be tabled is municipal elections with an election in a round. We want to do so three and a half years before the municipal and regional elections so that the time is to be informed by the local authorities, the potential participants for the process. All of this institutional framework began to be discussed mainly at the level of self -government mainly by the Minister of the Interior, Mr. Livanos, with the KEDE meeting a few months ago, and in the coming weeks all this will unfold so that the required dialogue and parties and public consultation.
The goal is to vote on the bill but the governments are open and this has proven this in meaningful and costly proposals. In this case here we are not talking about costly because it is a bill of the Ministry of the Interior, in serious proposals. We are also waiting for the parties, apparently both the self -sufficiency and the civil society of serious proposals.
DIM: So you say in any case will vote for a new electoral law on self -government
Exactly. We will see them in practice, essentially from the first round they will have a second option so that they do not have to come again. Essentially what we would all call to do if we vote in a municipality that does not come out of the first round we will have done it beforehand so that we will not be suffering again and of course saving money.
DIM: The second round always has less participation than the first
And unfortunately we see mayors coming out in second rounds with much less participation, but it is advisable for this decision to come out with the biggest participation in the first rounds.
DIM: Concerning the Prime Minister’s suggestions for the change of electoral law on national elections
The prime minister, as in the first four years, has decided to original or be an exception to a rule of several of his predecessors who were saying and others doing and what he says to do so. He has said when he voted for the electoral law a few months after his election that we would move on with this electoral law, with this electoral law we have moved to the second elections and the right thing is the rules not to change them and go through the rules that you have not voted on.
DIM: Asked if self -reliance is still target in the elections
Yes it is a goal. At the moment we have no elections so I think it is untimely and this debate is not for society. It is a very serious debate that is about the next four years and will begin to take place when the time of the pre -election period comes. The goal is another four years provided that citizens recognize, with the mistakes that have been made and we want to correct, effectiveness and consistency in relation to those we had promised in ’23. The self -reliance or effect is in the hands of Greek citizens but do not believe in cooperation governments and our belief is not only confirmed by the Greek reality, confirmed by the broader reality, European reality.
‘Dialogue does not mean retreat, but claim’
Pavlos Marinakis, among other things, referring to the Greek -Turkish, and in particular the interconnection cable with Cyprus and Israel, said that the Foreign Ministry has said in full. These are “technical issues of the company, it is not a matter of leave,” he said of the issue and the issue of Ankara’s reaction. He launched a “fire” in the opposition, saying that “some invested in pain, anxieties of society, putting plenty of pseudo -patriotism. Against this, the government grew up in Greece by acts, “referring to the expansion of territorial waters to 12 nm. In the Ionian Sea, in agreements with Egypt-Italy, but also in the publication of the map of marine spatial planning, whose value is high, because it is also with the European Voula. ” He noted that “we have said that we believe in dialogue with Turkey, the prolonged phase of dialogue has attributed (annihilation of flows, violations, reception of legal tourists), but dialogue does not mean retreat, it means claiming. With Turkey there is only one difference: EEZ-blocked. Turkey has its positions, it matters what you do. Greece and at the level of the diplomatic, equipment, at the agreement level is stronger than ever, “he said.