Mass seizures of accounts of citizens due to debts in the Municipality of Xanthi

Specifically, it points out that "a few days after the municipal elections, the administration of the Municipality of Xanthi showed its true face. Following to the letter the implementation of the anti-people's policy of the government of the Southwest and all previous governments proceeded to the measure of forced collection of debts of past years, with the relevant massive surcharges, for debts of contributory fees and fines for traffic violations, with seizures and freezes bank accounts, while many families are waiting for rent allowances, heating etc. bash and make Christmas.

The municipal authority of Xanthi proves once again that it is persisting in a collection - taxing - retributive concept at the expense of the popular strata.

The government and the municipality together are blackmailing and using repressive measures with the seizure of accounts for debts of a few hundred euros. Indeed, as residents have complained to us, they have not even received notice from the Municipality of Xanthi or from the banks about the seizures.

They are "gnashing their teeth" at the workers and the popular strata on the one hand to fill the municipality's coffers and get the government out of a difficult situation, while the ND government is cutting more and more resources to the municipalities and regions, promoting a new tax bill-slaughterhouse for the self-employed, a budget for 2024 that foresees 6.2 billion additional taxes for the popular strata.

The "People's Coalition" of Xanthi calls for an immediate convocation of the Municipal Council of the Municipality of Xanthi, in order to discuss the issue of account seizures and to stand by the struggles of the workers, the professionals of the city and ask for an end to the taxing of the people's households, the unemployed, by the banks, the state and the municipalities.

With responsibility and decision, the Municipal Council of the Municipality of Xanthi:

► To proceed with the cancellation of all small debts for households that are demonstrably unable and unable to pay.

► To revoke, stop and not to apply compulsory collection measures for small debts of households.

► To protect, institutionally and politically, municipal employees from threats of imputation by the state administration.

► Demand now that the government legislatively lift the coercive procedure that blackmails workers and elected officials into sending the poor into the "spotlight" of account seizures and raising their hands in the face of big spenders. To strengthen with action and attitude the struggle of the people for the protection of the people's housing from seizures and auctions.

► Instead of the municipal authority wasting and freezing accounts with the banks, step forward to claim the funding owed by the state, which has been cut for years by the municipalities."