Английская Википедия:Decentralized Administration of Peloponnese, Western Greece and the Ionian

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The Decentralized Administration of Peloponnese, Western Greece and the Ionian (Шаблон:Lang-el) is one of the seven decentralized administrations of Greece, consisting of the regions of Peloponnese, Western Greece and the Ionian Islands. Its seat is in Patras, Western Greece, and it is currently headed by Acting Secretary-General Dionysios Panagiotopoulos.

Formation and tasks

Шаблон:Main Decentralized Administrations were created in January 2011 as part of a far-reaching reform of the country's administrative structure, the Kallikratis reform (Law 3852/2010).Шаблон:Sfn

They enjoy both administrative and financial autonomy and exercise devolved state powers in urban planning, environmental and energy policy, forestry, migration and citizenship.Шаблон:Sfn Beyond that, they are tasked with supervising the first and second-level self-governing bodies: the municipalities and regions, in this case the 52 municipalities of Peloponnese, Western Greece and the Ionian Islands, and the three regions themselves.

Characteristics

Covering an area of Шаблон:Convert with an overall population of 1 465 554 Peloponnese, Western Greece and the Ionian is the third largest of the seven decentralized administrations both in area and population, and it is the only one that covers three Regions.

In the revised European NUTS nomenclature, the regions of Peloponnese, Western Greece and the Ionian together with the two regions of the Decentralized Administration of Thessaly and Central Greece form the first level NUTS region EL6 (Kentriki Ellada).

Secretary-General

The Decentralized Administration is led by a Secretary-General (Шаблон:Lang) who is appointed or dismissed by a Cabinet decision upon request of the Greek Minister of Interior,Шаблон:Sfn and is therefore considered the senior representative of the national government in the regions.

Following the electoral victory of Syriza in January 2015, the new Minister for the Interior, Nikos Voutsis, declared that the decentralized administrations would be abolished, and their powers transferred to the regions. Until this reform is formalized, and as the Secretaries-General appointed by the previous administration resigned on 2 February, the decentralized administrations are run by their senior civil servants as Acting Secretaries-General.

Current Acting Secretary-General is Dionysios Panagiotopoulos.

Literature

• Шаблон:Cite web

External links

• Шаблон:Official website Шаблон:In lang