A special session of the National Council for the discussion of the document for a decentralized federation was requested by AKEL in a letter to the President of the Republic a month ago, said the General Secretary of the party, Stefanos Stefanou.
Mr. Stefanou, when asked to comment, during his visit to the communities of Temvria, Kaliana, Galata and Kakopetria, the publication of Kathimerini on the document for a decentralized federation, said that AKEL had asked for information from the President during the last session of the National for the content of the position it has made over the last four years on the decentralized federation.
“He simply said (ss: the President) that a working document had been prepared which he had indeed given us. “Because he told us that it is confidential, we did not even say that we have this document and we did not give it to anyone,” he added.
“We do not know who made it public, but I must say this: we sent a letter to the President of the Republic about a month ago asking for a special session of the National Council to discuss this document because we consider such documents useful. to discuss them with each other in the National Council and not to become the subject of public debate, possibly controversies and counter-appeals “, said Mr. Stefanou.
The second, he continued, “what I want to say is that what is included as an initial idea, to delegate the implementation of responsibilities by the central government within the federation to the regions, is something that is included in the existing convergences and is not something new.”
He added: “I would like to comment on this at the moment, nothing more, because we are ready to express our views within the National Council and I would not like to violate what we believe should be discussed at the level of the of the National Council and not to be the subject of public debate “, he noted.
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