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Kathimerini: 'Omonia' and the opposition chose the businessman who lives and works in the USA

Kathimerini: 'Omonia' and the opposition chose the businessman who

The Greek media Kathimerini has dedicated an article to the candidacy for mayor of Himara from the ranks of the opposition, the Albanian-American businessman, Petro Gjikuria.

"The Omonoia organization that represents the ethnic Greek minority in South Albania and the Albanian opposition parties chose as a joint candidate in the repeat municipal elections of August 4 in Himara, Petro Gjikuria, an ethnic Greek Albanian who lives and works in the United States.

His candidacy is expected to be officially announced in Himare in the following hours, but Gjikuria made this known on Thursday through a post on Facebook.

"When the citizens of Himara decided to change the mayor, they were not allowed to. The old mayor who lost the election remained in the City Hall and the mayor who won the election Fredi Beleri was imprisoned on trumped-up charges. During all this time, Himare basically has no mayor," he said.

"Seeing all this and learning that the municipal elections have been announced for August 4, I made the decision to take a step forward, run for mayor and ask political parties, associations and every fellow citizen to support this nomination for him continued the next day", he added. "We are all residents of Himara and we must not allow anyone to divide us.

Gjikuria will run against Vangjel Tavos from the Socialist Party. Himara's election was decided after Albania's Central Election Commission removed the mandate of Fredi Beleri, another ethnic Greek, who was sentenced to two years in prison for vote-buying , Greek media wrote.

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