It is launching a signature collection campaign today, with a view to submitting a request to the Thessaloniki City Council for the first local referendum on the future of its site. International Exhibition of Thessaloniki (TIF). The start of the process was announced at a press conference by the Referendum Organizing Committee on TIF. Citizens and citizens of the Municipality of Thessaloniki wishing to sign the request can do so through the online platform www.parkodeth.grbut also through live and manuscripts, in the events organized by the Commission.
In particular, those involved in the process are called upon to declare that they are requesting a municipal referendum by the Thessaloniki Municipal Council, with the question: “You agree with the TIF Exhibition Center to be transformed by exclusively public funding into a metropolitan park, and memory to restore and host mild exhibition and cultural activities, and (b) large reports to be transferred to new facilities in a public extent in Sindos? “
Spyros Pegas, head of the “Thessaloniki for All” municipal faction, who participates in the Commission, stressed that “there must be an essential dialogue”, with the side that supports the redevelopment, while the leader of the Municipal Party “The City Upside Down”, Maria Keki, noted that the law. Eleni Ioannidou, a representative of the partnership-all TIF a park noted that the reason for the relevant mobilization is the huge lack of free green spaces and Kostas Samdanis, Secretary General. of the Thessaloniki Architects Association said that today the proposed redevelopment is based on the demolition of remarkable historical buildings of the TIF and the occupation of new buildings, with the aim of business development.
The first summer signature campaign, which is expected to be completed next summer, with the aim of gathering 25,000 signatures, is supported by fifty bodies and collectives.