NTM President Mehmet Harmancı participated in the action held by the unions organized in the municipalities in front of the Assembly, and criticized the actions that were taken “in order to demand that the (Special) Law on the Unification of Municipalities be re-submitted to the committee and rearranged”. Harmancı said, “The future of employees and people should not be this simple and cheap.”
President of Nicosia Turkish Municipality (LTB)Mehmet Harmancı made statements during the protest of unions organized in municipalities in front of the Assembly.
Harmancı pointed out that the citizens who have the right to speak on the draft law were ignored and said, “Was there any meeting? Have the opinions of the people in the municipalities to be merged been taken? Were the words of elected mayors and city council members taken into account?
No. Has the words of the citizens living in this region been listened to? No. The order came, they say, we will implement it. It’s a pity,” he said.
Stating that the laws tried to be passed in this way have changed the future and that no one knows what the future will be, Harmancı said, “The future of the employees and people should not be that simple or that cheap.
This shouldn’t be the way people use democracy. Unfortunately, the point reached is faced with actions. They are taking away the right of citizens to determine their own future,” he said.
Stating that everyone knows that there is a need for reform, but the problem is how the reform should be, Harmancı likened the current effort to “trying to grow roses in a garden that is created by combining pomegranate and lettuce gardens with different soil types”.
