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EUROKINISSI / TATIANA BOLARI
Festival of government communication in Ymittos during the visit of the prime minister to the factory complex of the former PYRKAL as part of the plan to create a “government park” with the aim of transferring a total of nine ministries located in the center of Athens and the office of the Prime Minister. .
For his part, Kyriakos Mitsotakis spoke of “a great day for the municipality of Ymittos – Dafnis as we announced the start of an extremely ambitious urban regeneration plan”.
However, residents of the area and the Attica Metal Union and employees of the Greek shipping industry voiced their opposition by protesting at the entrance to the site. “It will not pass”, “Anger and indignation of the workers” and “Now measures for the health of the workers under the responsibility of the government and the employer” were written among the banners of those gathered.
Speaking at the event, the prime minister said in particular that the plan provides for the creation of a new green lung in the city center. “We have the opportunity to give 120 acres, 80 acres in parks and 40 acres in public areas to the citizens of Daphne and Ymittos,” he said.
It is an area of 170 hectares in the center of the municipality, enclosed in which today just over 300 people are employed. An industrial production that does not have to be within the urban fabric. At the same time, a public administration that still occupies dozens of buildings rented to meet its needs in the center of Athens ”, he pointed out to add the following:
“So the logic of creating this new government park offers a unique opportunity, an important urban regeneration that, on the one hand, will substantially change the face of the city and, on the other hand, will offer important opportunities for the public administration to function better, in new, respectful buildings. with the environment and, of course, much more respectful with the employees “.
