From: | "George L. Kokkas Law Office" <geoko(at)otenet.gr> |
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Date: | Tue, 1 Aug 2006 23:57:58 +0300 |
Subject: | Re: Message for George Kokkas |
Thank you also Filia, for your moral and
practical assistance!
Let me explain you a few details , about this
event!
The whole event was a mixture of cultural and
direct democratic elements, with the objective to give safe orders of
people to the new local Authorities of Rhodes Island (to be elected
next October) about the priorities of policies that people request.
After a couple of short introductory
speeches, we had a small theatrical play, satyrizing the contemporary political
life and then we begun the political event of the Ecclesia, with short
speeches of local NGOs spokespersons, limited to 2 minutes maximum, giving
the tempo and the sense of isegoria (Equal time speaking) to the next
citizen speakers.
These simple citizens argued and debated on the
topics of the attached thematic(subject) voting sheet, first on the general
entities ( environmental issues, Local Economy-Development, Cultural affairs,
Relatiions between Authorities and Citizens, Social welfare, Transportation
issues and Working affairs) and then on special issues of each of the entities
above (for example on the first entity the proposals to be voted were
:a) More Litter boxes , b) Parks in neighborhoods of Rhodes island, c) New
Forests after Fires) as the audience was voting on a climax from 0
(zero-not interested) to 4 (extreme Priority).
All the citizens participants had also the ability to
propose other issues of their interest, than the prescribed and prepared by the
local NGOs issues.So, they voted for another general entity (Educational
affairs) and a lot of special issues to be faced by the New Local Authorities
that will be elected next October.
Then, after collection of voting sheets, we had
the chance to watch an excellent programme of ethnic songs and dances, as our
Informatic Team was working on the results of the voting, that were announced by
the end of this direct democratic event!
It was the first time in contemporary Greece that
we had a political event before elections, that faced the real problems of
people ,instead of the faces of the candidates and
representatives!
We are ready to support similal activities
everywhere in the world! George L. Kokkas
'Forum for Citizens' Democracy"
-Coordinator
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